Last Friday started with a tense morning meeting between top aides from the governor's office and from the Senate and Assembly Democratic offices. Words were exchanged. Doors were slammed.
The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for legal sports betting in New Jersey, ruling the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act is an unconstitutional regulation of state government.
So the U.S. Supreme Court sided with New Jersey on Monday and ruled that sports betting is now legal across the country. But how quickly can you place your bets?
Here's a closer look at that question and more:
SJP Properties and Aetna Realty are planning to spend as much as $1 billion on a project beside a Newark, New Jersey, commuter-rail hub, the latest in a spree of upscale developments that have brought new optimism to the long-suffering city.
Former Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno has accepted a position as partner with Roseland-based law firm Connell Foley.
In her new role, Guadagno will provide strategic counsel in a number of areas, including real estate, litigation, complex civil cases and criminal law, as well as provide legal advice to the firm’s partners and their clients.
The Gateway transportation project — which includes a new rail tunnel between New Jersey and New York — is in line for significant funding from the federal spending bill now being considered by Congress. Although the $541 million is only about half of what lawmakers from New Jersey and New York originally sought in a bill that won approval from the House of Representatives last year, it will allow work to continue apace on the project.
The federal spending measure could also allow Amtrak to move ahead with the replacement of the century-old Portal Bridge near Secaucus Junction, which was the source of the latest major headache for commuters last week.
There was a fear not too long ago that the iconic Shore dive Asbury Lanes would have to be shutdown for good or demolished because of structural and mechanical issues that plagued the popular bowling and music venue after 50 years of use.
But part of real estate investment company iStar's development plan of Asbury Park included restoring the 18-lane bowling alley, which opened in the 1960s and also later became a hip alternative music and arts venue before closing in October 2015, according to the Asbury Park Press.
Now, come Memorial Day weekend, Asbury Lanes will reopen as "the same anything-goes local hangout it always was and reborn as a state-of-the-art music venue," its new owners say.
President Trump's tax reform has put high-tax Democratic states in a quandary: Should they tax more as Uncle Sam taxes less? Or will that push the rich to leave?
On Tuesday New Jersey's new Democratic governor, Phil Murphy, broke sharply with President Trump and Congress on taxes. He used his first budget address to propose a hefty tax hike on millionaires.
One of New Jersey's late governors is getting his wish: His ashes will spend some time in a saloon.
A ceremony at Healy's Tavern in Jersey City on Friday will honor former Democratic Gov. Brendan Byrne, who died in January at age 93.