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?
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.