First-year governors have customarily been granted an extension under a decades-long bipartisan tradition

Interview: John Reitmeyer, budget and finance writer, NJ Spotlight News

The answer is for more than 5% of spending — proposed by a governor who in the past disparaged the practice

For months, state officials from New York and New Jersey refused the AP’s public records requests detailing pandemic spending, the only two states in the ...

According to Steinhardt, the $38.7 billion budget did nothing to stop the state’s pension crisis, save on spending, or provide any meaningful tax relief.

Creating economic opportunity in Trenton one step at a time.

The state will spend some $15 billion on K-12 education during the 2019 fiscal year, which is more than 40 percent of the total budget.