State House

Gov. Phil Murphy's possible road to the White House may begin Tuesday at the State House in Trenton.

When New Jersey State Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin heard one lawmaker call another an "a**hole" during a recent debate, it was the last straw.

In the face of decades-high inflation and the prospect of a U.S. recession already squeezing New Jersey families, will those pressures be intensified by higher taxes in 2023?

It is becoming clearer that some form of tax relief will be included in the next state budget, but few details have emerged about any plan to do so.

Yet another piece of legislation has been proposed to provide some relief for record-high gas prices, but none of the proposals has advanced.

Lawmakers in the New Jersey Senate have advanced a bill that would require free menstrual products to be provided in all school bathrooms for students in grades 6 through 12.

Billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funds have been flowing into the Garden State. So much of it, in fact, lawmakers and Gov. Phil Murphy haven't been able to spend it all.

During his 50-minute budget speech on Tuesday, Gov. Murphy focused mostly on how he wants to spend a tax windfall, but also expressed strong support for Ukraine in the face of a Russian invasion.

It appears the next showdown over the vaccine-or-test mandate at New Jersey's State House will come Monday, the same day Republicans will be in court arguing the policy is unconstitutional.

The State Police Troopers who were at the forefront of last week's confrontation with Republican Assembly members who defied the State House vaccine mandate are no longer assigned to New Jersey's Capitol building.