- 2018-10-04
- ROI-NJ
Jeff LeBenger knows the new four-story, 130,000-square-foot Summit Medical Group MD Anderson Cancer Center is capable of attracting patients from throughout northern New Jersey and even the New York metropolitan area.
- 2018-10-04
- NJBIZ
Gov. Phil Murphy signed an amended bill that would provide tax incentives for businesses within a mile of the Atlantic City International Airport by creating a Garden State Growth Zone around it.
- 2018-09-27
- NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Call it a rite of passage. Call it a must-visit for any modern New Jersey governor. Just don't call it a vacation.
Gov. Phil Murphy will set off on a 9-day overseas business mission next month that includes a visit to Israel with stops in Tel Aviv and the holy city of Jerusalem. Israel has been a destination for just about every elected governor for the past three decades.
- 2018-09-19
- NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
When pushing for limiting how much you can deduct for state and local taxes on your federal income taxes, Republican lawmakers argued that such breaks were unfair because they subsidized the super rich -- especially in states like New Jersey.
- 2018-09-04
- ROI-NJ
A coalition of politicians and business leaders stood under a bridge in Secaucus to rally support for the Gateway Tunnel project — which currently is being stonewalled by a New York native who happens to be President of the United States, Donald Trump.
The group was a VIP list of New Jersey leaders: Gov. Phil Murphy, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), U.S. Reps. Albio Sires, Donald Payne and Bill Pascrell (all D-N.J.), Economic Development Authority CEO Tim Sullivan, Transportation Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce leaders Tom Bracken and Michael Egenton, and Gateway Program Development Corp. trustees Jerry Zaro and Tony Coscia.
- 2018-09-04
- NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Some of New Jersey's top elected officials -- all Democrats -- gathered Tuesday near an aging bridge to send a message to President Donald Trump:
It's time for the Republican president to drop his opposition to the Gateway Tunnel project, not only for the region he's long called home, but for all Americans.
"New Jersey is ready to get working on America's next great infrastructure project," Gov. Phil Murphy said as he and four members of New Jersey's congressional delegation hosted a pep rally of sorts in Secaucus for the new rail tunnel under the Hudson River linking the Garden State with Manhattan.
- 2018-08-30
- ROI-NJ Op Ed
I attended Gov. Phil Murphy’s news conference honoring the construction workers at the American Dream complex Tuesday in East Rutherford, and I came away with a strong sense of optimism for this soon-to-open retail and entertainment park, and what it can mean to New Jersey both economically and symbolically.
- 2018-08-28
- ROI-NJ
Jordan Thomas, Princeton University Class of 2018, was one of 32 U.S. college students to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship this year.
And, while he is not the first Rhodes Scholar from Princeton (or other New Jersey schools), he is the first graduate of the Newark Public Schoolsto be given the honor.
- 2018-08-23
- NJBIZ
Gov. Phil Murphy plans to veto a proposed 5-cent fee on plastic bags within the next few days, according to a source close to the governor.
- 2018-08-17
- ROI-NJ
Private-sector unemployment in New Jersey is at an 11-year low, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The bureau said that in the Garden State, employment expanded in July while the state’s unemployment rate dropped, edging lower for the fourth month in a row by 0.1 percentage point to 4.2 percent. This is the state’s lowest unemployment rate since July 2007, it said.