One or two more extended ovations, maybe one more tangent, and Gov. Phil Murphy would have hit the hour mark on his State of the State address on Tuesday.

From the moment he started speaking to the final — and spirited — conclusion, Murphy clocked in at 59 minutes and 44 seconds. For those keeping score, it was a little shorter than last year’s address that came in at hour and two minutes.

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