Declan O'Scanlon

State Sen. Mike Testa said Gov. Murphy is salivating at the chance to borrow $10B and likened him to Gollum from "The Lord of the Rings" series begging lawmakers for that power.

$7.7 billion in spending will keep the state operating through September. Big decisions about cuts, taxes and borrowing are due over the next three months.

A former state budget director under both major political parties says the state should raise taxes now and slash pension contributions rather than borrow billions of dollars to close a huge coronavirus-created deficit.

Senate Pres. Steve Sweeney said it doesn’t make sense that people can go to a grocery store or liquor store but not a card shop, particularly since major retailers are open but mom-and-pop businesses aren’t.

One in 38 students — or a total of about 14,000 — have a religious exemption from vaccinations. That number has grown in five years from just under 9,000.

A proposed constitutional amendment will be before voters next November after it barely achieved the needed three-fifths supermajority in the legislature.

A Senate committee Thursday advanced a bill that would green-light larger property tax increases in some school districts losing state aid.

Phil Murphy vowed to voters back in 2017 that he would legalize marijuana in his first 100 days in office. Now it looks like legalization, if it ever happens, will come long after his first thousand days.

A decade after New Jersey enacted its ‘move over’ law, it is looking for ways to get more drivers to comply – including motor vehicle points, for some.

State Sen. Declan O’Scanlon is opposed to a proposed law that would allow video surveillance on NJ school buses to generate automatic $250 tickets that would be issued to any driver that passes a stopped school bus with its red lights flashing.