Depending on where you stand when it comes to offshore wind development, the recent stunning announcement by the Danish power company Ørsted that it was abandoning its Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2 projects off the Jersey Shore, at…

For years, there has been a small group of voices questioning the true cost to ratepayers of implementing Gov. Phil Murphy’s Energy Master Plan. The state Board of Public Utilities has awarded billions of dollars in contracts and subsidies to…

New Jersey taxpayers need to be aware of the potential hurdles they may face if changes are not made to the already bloated state health benefits program that provides health coverage for hundreds of thousands of public employees. The implications…

It’s a fact that small businesses are the backbone of New Jersey’s economy.  According to data from the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses constitute 99.6% of New Jersey businesses and employ 49.2% of our state’s workforce. Despite these impressive numbers,…

New Jersey’s business community is counting on the legislature and Governor Murphy to keep their word when it comes to corporate taxes. To resolve contentious budget negotiations in 2018, Governor Murphy, Speaker Coughlin, and then-Senate President Sweeney agreed to a…

How do you turn one of the most prosperous places in the world into an economic and fiscal basket case? Look at New Jersey over the past several decades. As recently as the early 1970s, New Jersey was an economic…

Patrick Delle Cava is the business manager for IBEW Local 102; Audrey Lane is the policy director for the Garden State Initiative. - Courtesy photos As members of families who have called New Jersey home for generations, we’re proud to…