Guadagno calls on Murphy to intervene in budget showdown
Kim Guadagno With New Jersey’s state government on the verge of shutting down because the Democrat controlled legislature has failed to pass a budget, Lt.Governor Kim Guadagno, the GOP nominee for...
View ArticleNJ Shutdown Is Over
Governor Christie signs the budget. Photo by Tim Larsen Both houses of the New Jersey Legislature passed a budget last night which Governor Chris Christie signed, ending the three day shutdown of...
View ArticleO’Scanlon challenges Jersey City Mayor Fulop to pressure Speaker Prieto to...
Jersey City Police Officers were awarded a 2% pay increase by a state appointed arbitrator this week. Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, not the Democrat nominee for Governor,...
View ArticleAberdeen Mayor Supports O’Scanlon’s Efforts To Limit Property Tax Hikes
Aberdeen Mayor Fred Tagliarini We haven’t heard from Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop since Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon challenged him to pressure Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto to put the extension of...
View ArticleDems Pick Up Key Seats in Legislature, GOP Takes Several Tight Races
Senate President Steve Sweeney fought off a surprisingly tough challenge from his Republican opponent, funded by NJEA money. New Jersey voters went to the polls yesterday and turned their attention to...
View ArticleDiMaso proposes school safety legislation
Assemblywoman Serena DiMaso Assemblywoman Serena DiMaso (R-Monmouth), along with her colleagues Assemblywomen Nancy Munoz (R-Union) and Holly Schepisi (R-Bergen), today called on the legislature to...
View ArticleMurphy swears in John Pallone as Long Branch Mayor
The State Legislature is still toiling in Trenton making sure Governor Phil Murphy’s conditional vetoes match what he agreed to with Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin...
View ArticleDemocrats in the running for Handlin’s Assembly seat
Josh Welle and Amber Gesslein could run for the Dem nominations for Assembly in LD 13 next year. Assemblywoman Amy Handlin’s announcement that she will not seek reelection next year inevitably creates...
View ArticlePearl Lee considering LD 11 Assembly bid
Pearl Lee Pearl Lee, the Republican candidate for Red Bank Mayor last month, told MMM that she reached out to Monmouth Republican Chairman Shaun Golden to express her interest in challenging Democrat...
View ArticlePot Legalizaton Passes in Senate and Assembly Committees
After hours of delays for last minute amendments which caused the suspension of testimony and debate a legislation that legalizes and establishes a regulatory structure of recreation marijuana passed...
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