Paul Sarlo

Significant legislation that would require food waste to be recycled by places that generate a lot of it has been approved by the Legislature.

The budget appropriates $38.7B, which is $142M more than Murphy sought in February, though $151M less than Murphy’s revised blueprint described by the state treasurer in May.

Income tax collections surged to a record in April, as shortfalls in December and January proved to be merely delays, not a disappearance.

Gov. Murphy could have shown a scandal-ridden subordinate the door. Instead he stayed silent.

The state Health Department projects 2 million square feet of cultivation space would be needed to get adult-use recreational marijuana started.

If deleting marijuana convictions is made easier along with legalization, the courts estimate that more than 180,000 people could be newly eligible to apply.

The state is counting on a robust but not unprecedented $3 billion in income taxes this month, exceeding what the tax generated in a whole year before 1991.

A new health plan would save the state $70M a year. It reduces out-of-network benefits and gets people to use it by changing the contribution formula.

State lawmakers are moving to provide $100 million in state funding to horse racing tracks to increase the purses paid to race winners.

Marijuana legalization in New Jersey took its first two steps Monday through the state Legislature, though the tallest hurdles remain to be cleared.