Jon Bramnick

A crucial vote is set for Thursday in the Assembly, which is pursuing its own alternative to an Atlantic City takeover as default or bankruptcy inches closer.

Union County assemblyman piles onto the growing criticism and frustration with Newark Liberty International Airport.

The Garden State has a very strict gun possession law, which could result in jail time for anyone who violates the statute. But some NJ legislators think the time has come to amend the law.

Poverty is still a very real problem in the Garden State, according to Assembly Speaker Vinnie Prieto.

A new legislative session officially began Tuesday in Trenton, with both Democratic and Republican lawmakers calling for an end to political gamesmanship.

Assembly members return to work Monday at the State House for the first committee sessions since last June. Democrats and Republicans agreed on the issues that needed to be tackled and they stressed the need for bi-partisanship, but they didn’t agree how to solve the problems and they were already sounding very partisan.

NJ Republican lawmakers argue Democrats are using Gov. Christie’s travels as a smoke screen to hide their own lack of action.

It should come as no surprise that politics was at play at the State House on Thursday just days before the Nov. 3 election in which all 80 seats in the Assembly are on the line.

uts. At a State House press conference Monday, State Senate Budget Committee chairman Paul Sarlo (D-Wood-Ridge), who wants to cut the estate tax made it sound like a gas tax hike proposal was a foregone conclusion, but a death tax cut was not.

In a late afternoon State House press conference Monday, Assembly GOP Leader Join Bramnick (R-Westfield) accused the New Jersey Education Association of spending roughly $3 million dollars to prop up the campaigns of Democratic Assembly candidates in three districts because they answered a survey saying would support the positions of the teachers’ union.