New Jersey Gov.  Phil Murphy recently revealed his economic development master plan with a 2025 horizon. He is focused on attracting fast-growing and high-paying industries and entrepreneurs in those industries, on small business and women and minority-run businesses.The specific goals…

Gov. Phil Murphy announced last month that his administration had reached a deal on government employee and retiree health benefits with public worker unions that would save taxpayers an estimated $496 million through the end of 2020. The pro-union governor…

One would have to be a cynic to suspect that Gov. Phil Murphy chose Monday to deliver his much-awaited economic development plan to divert attention from the 4.3-cent gasoline hike, the sales taxes on online purchases, and taxes on BnBs and other online booking sites,…

Starting Monday, New Jersey motorists will pay a state tax on gasoline of 41.4 cents per gallon — a 10 percent increase less than two years after the state raised the tax 23 cents a gallon.The tax hike ordered by…

Progress is progress, but let’s not get too carried away by Gov. Phil Murphy’s plan announced this week to save taxpayers nearly $500 million in the next two years because of changes made to the state’s health benefits plan for…

“It could be worse” isn’t exactly a comforting motto for most life situations.But that’s the core message of the editorial “No, we’re not losing all the good people” about how things aren’t so bad in the Garden State because millennials…

State Senate President Steve Sweeney’s bipartisan task force has delivered an impressive list of recommendations on how to restore financial responsibility to state government.With the state straining to pay the interest on $48 billion in bonded debt and facing a…