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For New Jersey's Chris Christie, It Was Simply a Tunnel Into Debt
4:30PM 10/27/2010
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie killed the multibillion dollar rail tunnel under the Hudson River, the nation's largest public works project, for the second time in less than a month. For Christie, it all came down to money. And that helps burnish his fiscal conservative cred.
The High Price of New Jersey's Cheap Gasoline Tax
7:00AM 10/15/2010
At 10.5 cents per gallon, Jersey has the third-lowest gas tax in America, and Gov. Chris Christie isn't about to change that. Problem is: The state's transportation trust fund, which depends on gasoline taxes, is running dry -- at the worst possible time.
N.J. Gov. Christie Makes a Huge Gamble on a Gaming Overhaul
12:20PM 7/21/2010
New Jersey's Chris Christie is preparing to announce sweeping plans to overhaul Atlantic City's casino district, just one part of a set of proposals that would mark the biggest changes to the state's gaming industry since gambling was legalized.
Health-Care Reform Stumbles in South Jersey
8:15PM 3/17/2010
Freshman Democratic congressman John Adler of New Jersey is a wanted man because he is bucking the party line on health-care reform. Being a maverick may be the best move for him politically even if puts him at odds with President Obama's top legislative priority.
New Jersey Transit head James Weinstein announced 25% fare increases, record layoffs and service cuts as he tries to put the agency's fiscal house in order. Public transit chiefs around the country are fighting similar battles to make ends meet -- and they're losing.
Mother Nature's fury this winter has left a path of fiscal destruction that will linger far after the record-breaking snowfall starts to melt -- and she's not done yet. But for some businesses, blizzards mean opportunity.
It's all gravy: Cost of Thanksgiving meal sees biggest drop since 2000
11:00AM 11/17/2009
People cooking up a traditional Thanksgiving feast can be thankful it won't be as expensive as it was last year.
The price of making a traditional Thanksgiving meal -- turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the trimmings -- will drop 4% this year, according to the American Farm Bureau...
Why this liberal Democrat voted Republican in New Jersey
12:40PM 11/04/2009
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross famously described the five stages of grief. Many supporters of Barack Obama, like myself, are going through a similar process to justify voting for a Republican in yesterday's election.
The last thing this liberal member of the media elite -- as perceived by many of our...
Jon Corzine's remarkable comeback in the N.J. governor race
9:30AM 10/30/2009
Forget Bill Clinton, the next comeback kid looks like New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.
The former Goldman Sachs (GS) co-chairman was given up for roadkill on the New Jersey Turnpike a few months ago after the Garden State became embroiled in yet another embarrassing political scandal. In this one,...
We New Jersey residents are awfully proud of leading the country in car insurance rates, property taxes and political corruption. Now no less of an august authority than the University of Cambridge claims that modern life has turned my fellow residents into balls of stress.According to a press...
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