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Not every Republican in New Jersey's State House is downplaying Bridgegate, or hoping it just goes away.

Former Port Authority official David Wildstein remains a key figure in the Bridgegate scandal.

A new Common Sense Institute of New Jersey pension study finds the state is doing a better job of making payments into the pension system, but those will have to increased by billions of dollars over the next few years to prevent the system from falling into further debt, and no one knows where that money will come from.

This year could see a repeat of 2006 when New Jersey's state government operations shut down because a budget deal wasn't reached by the constitutionally mandated midnight June 30 deadline.

Do you think the Bridgegate scandal is serious, or do you think it's an overblown story fueled by media hype and partisan political hacks? A new Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll revealed the overwhelming majority of registered voters in the Garden State think the controversy is a very big deal.

As more New Jerseyans begin to doubt Gov. Chris Christie's version of when and how he learned of the unannounced George Washington Bridge access lane closures, his poll numbers are plummeting.

Last week, we told you how state Sen. Nick Scutari (D-Linden) is working on a measure that would legalize marijuana.

On Monday, the full New Jersey Senate and General Assembly voted unanimously to create a single 12-member committee to investigate unannounced George Washington Bridge access lane closures that led to massive traffic jams in Fort Lee in September. That spirit of bipartisanship was nowhere to be found 30 minutes later, when the panel convened its first hearing.

Several New Jersey lawmakers are pushing a plan to stop the surge of violence taking place in urban areas.

A New Jersey lawmaker plans to introduce legislation to expand the number of Safe Haven locations.