Panel discussion of governor's budget proposal, big-ticket items and themes
Gov. Phil Murphy delivered his spending plan for the 2024 fiscal year Tuesday at the State House in Trenton.
Examining the governor’s spending plan in detail are members of the NJ Spotlight News’ team: Business Correspondent Rhonda Schaffler, Senior Writer and Projects Editor Colleen O’Dea, and Budget and Finance Writer John Reitmeyer. They discuss the governor’s big-ticket items, the themes of his address and what happens next.
An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.
