Craig Coughlin

Legislative leaders discuss solutions to get the Garden State back on track once the COVID health emergency ends.

Vote-by-mail will remain an option, as it was before the pandemic, but in-person voting, including early machine voting, is preferred for 2021.

At a Hillsborough brewery, elected officials detailed plans for spending $100 million in federal CARES Act funds.

To make up for projected declines in revenue projections, the 2021 state operating budget is balanced in part through $4.5 billion in general obligation bonds.

It took a worldwide pandemic – plus $500 checks to middle-class families in an election year – to get a millionaires tax back on the books in New Jersey.

The deadline to enact a balanced spending plan is in five weeks, suggesting a period of intense negotiations and hearings are on Trenton's horizon.

There is a piece of legislation awaiting approval from the Assembly and Senate in New Jersey which would change the name from "Chosen Freeholder" to "County Commissioner".

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin said he expects the measure to receive widespread bipartisan support.

New Jersey residents and businesses have three additional months to prepare their state tax returns.

The content of the legislation took a backseat to the way the voting session itself was conducted – by phone, with just one lawmaker in Trenton.