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Governor Sherrill Confirms 19 Heat Deaths, 165,000 Homes Without Power as New Jersey Faces Its Worst Heat Emergency in 14 Years on America’s 250th...

Governor Mikie Sherrill convened an emergency weather briefing on the Fourth of July at the Statewide Traffic Management Center in Woodbridge, flanked by the...

The Founding Father Buried in Princeton Who Shaped American Government More Than Almost Any Other — and Whose Contradictions Define a Nation

In the summer of 1776, when the debate in the Continental Congress over whether the colonies were prepared to declare independence had reached a...

New Jersey’s Budget Is Now Law. The Debate Over What Sherrill Promised and What She Delivered Is Just Beginning.

Governor Mikie Sherrill signed New Jersey's $60.7 billion Fiscal Year 2027 budget into law moments before the June 30 constitutional deadline, making it official:...

U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. Returns to Congress After Mental Health Hospitalization, Reframing National Debate on Illness, Transparency, and Public Service

U.S. Representative Tom Kean Jr., a New Jersey Republican whose extended absence from Congress had fueled months of speculation in Washington, returned to the...

Governor Sherrill Signs New Jersey’s $60.75 Billion Budget Into Law. A $358 Million Supplemental Bill Brought Its Own Controversy.

Governor Mikie Sherrill signed her first state budget into law on Tuesday night, meeting the June 30 constitutional deadline with hours to spare after...

New Jersey’s $60.7 Billion Budget Locks In a Historic Surplus. The Business Community Says It Did So at Their Expense.

New Jersey's Fiscal Year 2027 budget cleared its final legislative hurdles this week in the kind of compressed, late-Sunday-night committee sessions that have become...

A Leadership Fight Inside the Brick Township GOP Tests Whether Local Party Politics Can Survive a Member’s Statewide Ambitions

A dispute over divided loyalties and limited time has opened a new and public fracture within the Brick Township Republican Organization, after the local...

DHS Abandons Roxbury Detention Center Plan After Four-Month Legal and Community Battle, Sherrill and Davenport Announce

The federal government has officially abandoned its plan to convert a vacant 470,000-square-foot warehouse in Roxbury Township into a mass immigration detention facility capable...

A Federal Judge Demands Answers on Delaney Hall as New Jersey Escalates Its Fight for Access to Newark’s Most Contested Facility

The legal confrontation between the state of New Jersey and the private operator of the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark has reached...

New Jersey Advances Its Own Voting Rights Law as Federal Protections Erode: The John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act Moves Through the Senate

On Sunday morning, as the New Jersey Legislature's budget committees were convening for their late-night votes on the $60.7 billion FY27 spending plan, a...

“We Are Still Under Attack”: New Jersey’s Business Community Responds to the FY27 Budget’s Passage

The ink was barely dry on Sunday night's late-night committee votes advancing New Jersey's $60.7 billion Fiscal Year 2027 budget when the state's largest...

New Jersey’s Week in Policy: Budget Compromise, Polluters Pay, AI Data Center Disclosure, and the Federal Pressures Reshaping Trenton’s Priorities

The week ending June 28, 2026 delivered a compressed summary of the central tensions defining Governor Mikie Sherrill's first year in office: a state...

New Jersey Sat Out Trump’s Great American State Fair. Cape May County Showed Up Anyway. Here Is What Happened.

America's 250th birthday arrived with the ambition of a World's Fair and the execution of a county fair that ran out of attractions before...

Amazon, Walmart, and Wawa Head the List: Who Will Pay Under Governor Sherrill’s Proposed Medicaid Employer Tax

The fundamental arithmetic of New Jersey's Medicaid program has produced a situation that Governor Mikie Sherrill has decided to treat as a policy problem...

New Jersey Political Report: Housing Bill in Crisis, a Shore Mayor’s Fight for South Jersey, and Gottheimer’s War on the Hard Left

New Jersey's political world had no shortage of drama this weekend, with three major storylines converging to shape the state's landscape heading into what...

Operation FAST Marks a Turning Point for New Jersey as NJDEP Cuts Freshwater Wetlands Backlog by 42% While Balancing Environmental Protection and Economic Growth

Few issues have generated more sustained debate within New Jersey's development community than the length of time required to navigate the state's environmental permitting...

New Jersey’s Budget Debate Signals a Defining Moment for the State’s Economy, Business Climate, and Long-Term Competitiveness

As New Jersey moves toward the constitutional deadline for adopting its Fiscal Year 2027 budget, the conversation inside the State House has expanded far...

New Jersey Leaders Reach Agreement on $60.7 Billion Budget, Setting the Course for Fiscal Year 2027

With just days remaining before New Jersey's constitutional deadline to adopt a new state budget, Governor Mikie Sherrill and Democratic leaders in the Legislature...

New Jersey’s Political Divide Deepens as Conservative Groups Intensify Opposition to Democratic Legislative Agenda

New Jersey's political landscape has entered another period of heightened ideological conflict as conservative organizations and Republican lawmakers continue mounting an aggressive public campaign...

Federal Judge Dismisses DOJ Challenge to New Jersey Sanctuary City Policies, Marking Significant Victory for State and Local Governments

A closely watched legal battle over immigration enforcement and local government authority has ended, at least for now, with a decisive federal court ruling...

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