At the tail end of Gov. Jon Corzine's announcement that the state plans to reduce school aid by $260 million and require school districts with surpluses over 2 percent to dip into their own savings to cover the state's shortfall, the administration included these few lines that say, in essence, [...]
In other news, New Jersey politics came to a complete dead stop last night. Man, it was butt-ugly. There was weeping. Some people walked into walls.
Corzine & Christie mash up good econ news with bad
To keep a commitment to reduce property taxes, [...]
It's Wednesday, Dec. 23rd, 2009. Here's what's going on:
Senate President Richard Codey, who is the acting governor with Gov. Jon Corzine out of state, signs a bill into law in West Orange establishing a 'Silver Alert' system to help locate missing persons believed to be suffering from dementia or other' [...]
| December 22, 2009With Gov. Jon Corzine and the state Treasury Department likely to be announcing midyear budget cuts any time now (as they've been promised before Christmas), the state budget's revenue picture got a little bit brighter with November's tax collections announced at the end of last week.
Well, maybe a little less' [...]
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This afternoon Corzine's office announced a plan to close a $924 million gap for the current budget year. Here's a part of the news release:
"The plan includes a proposal involving excess surplus balances that have been accumulated by school districts across the state. Under the proposal, which would" [...]
| December 18, 2009
Jon Corzine
There's a lot of speculation about when Corzine officially jumped the shark. Some think it was that speech he got a lobbyist to write, despite a taxpayer-paid speech-writer on staff, that said pigs would fly over the Statehouse before enough waste could be cut [...]
Jonny B. Goode, an anonymous Trenton insider who has been dogging Jon Corzine for the last few years at InTheLobby, has a wonderful send off and reprise of the Governor's tenure in today's edition. [...] It's Wednesday, Dec. 16th, 2009, and here's some of what's on the schedule in state government and politics:
Gov.-elect Chris Christie is expected to announce Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno will be the state's secretary of state. Gov. Jon Corzine speaks at the Camden Riverfront Prison demolition in Camden, then has two events [...]Gov. Jon Corzine nominated 180 people to various state agencies Monday, undoubtedly setting up a political fight with Republicans who are gearing up to reclaim the governor's mansion and the executive-branch appointments that go with it for the first time in eight years. Those include 49 who will require Senate approval [...]
A $1.1 trillion spending bill Congress sent to the White House includes $200 million for work on a new tunnel under the Hudson to Macy's basement, what future generations will call Corzine's Folly. It is scheduled for completion in 2017 at a cost of $9 billion [...]
As Governor Corzine finishes his term and Senate President Codey prepares for his final days running the Senate, we have this picture before they go:Give us your best thought bubbles or caption. 
