Morning news: After Rutgers basketball video, lawmakers call for tougher...
After videos surfaced last week showing the Rutgers basketball coach throwing balls at players and yelling gay slurs at them in practice, the sponsor of New Jersey’s current anti-bullying law says it...
View ArticleMorning News: Christie courting urban Passaic voters
The Senate will be holding budget hearings today, looking at Governor Christie’s proposals for the departments of Community Affairs and Environmental Protection. Columnist Charlie Stile looks at...
View ArticleRutgers president answers tough questions from alumni
Rutgers University president Robert L. Barchi answered tough questions from alumni in Washington, D.C., last night about the school’s handling of the scandal surrounding former basketball coach Mike...
View ArticleMorning news: Treasurer defends lottery plan; Christie vetoes Sandy oversight...
For the first time, Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff gave a detailed defense yesterday of the state’s plan to privatize part of the New Jersey Lottery. He dismissed critics’ complaints that the...
View ArticleMorning News: Obama touring NJ today
President Obama is touring New Jersey to examine superstorm Sandy recovery efforts today. He’s slated to arrive at the Fort Dix Army base around 11 a.m. and to take a tour of the Shore. He has a speech...
View ArticleMorning News: Obama’s Jersey Shore visit
President Obama said it would take years for the Jersey Shore to completely recover from the devastating effects of superstorm Sandy at a speech in Asbury Park Tuesday. He also visited the Point...
View ArticleMorning News: State paid $23 million in benefits to prisoners
The New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club endorsed state Sen. Barbara Buono, D-Middlesex, in her bid to unseat Governor Christie in this year’s gubernatorial election. The state inappropriately paid...
View ArticleMorning News: Former govs stand up for Rutgers
The state Senate sent three more gun bills to Governor Christie’s desk yesterday — including one that Senate President Steve Sweeney, D-Gloucester, has championed that would implement a new set of...
View ArticleMorning news: Tomorrow is Primary Day
Governor Christie and Democrat Barbara Buono both face challengers in tomorrow’s primary election, but they have already set their sights on November, spending millions on ads promoting themselves and...
View ArticleMorning news: After Lautenberg’s funeral, potential Senate candidates...
Potential U.S. Senate candidates only have a few days to collect the signatures they need to run for the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s seat. But questions continued yesterday about Governor Christie’s...
View ArticleMorning news: Christie supports overhauling campaign finance, cutting Rutgers...
Governor Christie said yesterday that Birdsall Services Group’s admission this month that it illegally concealed hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions is a sign that the state...
View ArticleMorning news: Revenue meets expectations; Rutgers merger begins
A revenue report released Monday by the Christie administration shows tax collections are just barely meeting budget projections — estimates that Christie has already lowered twice. The report did...
View ArticleMorning news: Lautenberg’s wife joins Pallone as Senate candidates release...
Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg appeared publicly with Rep. Frank Pallone yesterday for the first time since her family endorsed Pallone in his bid for her late husband’s U.S. Senate seat. Englebardt...
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Governor Christie reflects on early impressions of Mexico City
Governor Christie, center, speaks to Martin Perez, a member of the Rutgers University Board of Governors, after signing a higher education agreement at the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico...
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