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Archive of New Jersey on Tuesday June 30, 2009
NJ: Corzine signs $29 billion N.J. budget
Gov. Corzine signed a $29 billion budget yesterday that he said managed the national recession by cutting spending but still making "the right choices" to preserve programs for education, the poor, and the elderly. Read More
NJ: No freeze on family health program
Gov. Jon Corzine is scrapping plans to freeze parent enrollment in the NJ FamilyCare health insurance program for working poor families. Corzine had hoped to save $9 million by postponing plans to expand the eligibility for the free and low-cost managed care health plan. Read More
Furloughs cut into state services
With states facing a $121 billion shortfall in the next fiscal year, a growing number of them have turned to squeezing their workforce for savings, and effects both great and small will be felt. Read More
NJ: Christie, unbowed, returns to the trail
Chris Christie walked out of a blockbuster congressional hearing last week with an air of defiance, saying he survived a political booby trap and would get right back to his own campaign agenda. Read More
NJ: State court furlough doesn't stop free mediation day in Monmouth
Although state courts were closed yesterday while judiciary employees were on furlough, members of the Monmouth Bar Association provided their own version of the People's Court by holding free mediation sessions in what they called "court alternative day." Read More
NJ: N.J. Attorney General Anne Milgram plans to unveil mortgage-fraud indictments
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram today plans to announce multiple indictments for mortgage fraud. Read More
NJ: Governor Corzine signs $29 billion New Jersey state budget
Governor Jon Corzine Monday signed legislation adopting a $29 billion budget for FY2010 that is $1.8 billion less than the first budget he signed four years ago. Read More
NJ: Governor approves $29B tab
Gov. Jon Corzine signed into law yesterday the $29 billion state budget that was approved by both houses of the Legislature last week. The governor said the new budget, which increases taxes on cigarettes, wine, hard alcohol and high incomes, was the result of making difficult but correct choices amid a bad economy and declining revenues. Read More
US: Obama steers health debate out of capital
WASHINGTON — With Democrats deeply divided over health legislation, President Obama is trying to enlist the nation's governors and his own army of grass-roots supporters in a bid to increase pressure on lawmakers without getting himself mired in the messy battle playing out on Capitol Hill. Read More
US: Ruling adds teeth to state oversight of banks
For years, state governments have had little power to enforce consumer-protection and lending rules at the country's biggest banks. No more. Read More
US: A green way to dump low-tech electronics
Since 2004, 18 states and New York City have approved laws that make manufacturers responsible for recycling electronics, and similar statutes were introduced in 13 other states this year. Read More |
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