- 2014-05-27
- NJ Spotlight
While Gov. Chris Christie is still several weeks away from announcing his proposal to overhaul New Jersey’s pension and retiree health benefits system, his plan seems most likely to center on a “hybrid” model that would give current employees a smaller defined-benefit payoutsupplemented by a 401K-style defined contribution plan.
- 2014-05-16
Neither of them said they necessarily supported an increase to the state gas tax. But both Assemblymen Gary Schaer, chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, and Declan O'Scanlon, the committee's ranking Republican, said a gas tax hike alone wouldn't answer the need to raise $1.6 billion for annual maintenance and improvements to the state's highways, bridges and mass transportation.
- 2016-06-14
Government Regulations Are No longer the Top Concern for Executives
Business leaders are down on Obamacare, concerned about consumer spending, and they don't want New Jersey to host another Super Bowl, according to the latest ParenteBeard-New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Business climate survey.
- 2014-05-07
Government Regulations Are No longer the Top Concern for Executives
Business leaders are down on Obamacare, concerned about consumer spending, and they don't want New Jersey to host another Super Bowl, according to the latest ParenteBeard-New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Business climate survey.
- 2014-04-29
Democratic Assemblyman Gordon M. Johnson, Republican Assembly Anthony M. Bucco, and commercial lawyer Ted Zangari all sung the praises of the state's new economic incentives designed to lure companies to New Jersey, during a New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Roundtable on Growing Jobs and the Economy in Monroe on April 29.
- 2016-06-14
Gov. Christie's Keynote at the Congressional Dinner is Broadcast Live to a National Audience on C-SPAN
The 77th Annual Walk to Washington and Congressional Dinner on April 22 and 23, 2014 brought to Washington a who's who of New Jersey business and government leaders, all of whom participated in what NJBIZ newspaper has called "a massive mobile networking event" and The Star-Ledger called "a longstanding Jersey tradition."
- 2014-04-04
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez may be banned from Russia, but he was welcomed to a luncheon for members of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Cornerstone members in Iselin on April 4.
The ranking senator from New Jersey, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke candidly on a wide range of topics during a question and answer session with Cornerstone members, including relations with Russia, Middle East peace talks, Sandy recovery, the federal income tax rate, transportation funding and working with Sen. Cory Booker.
- 2014-04-01
- The Star-Ledger
Former Gov. Brendan Byrne — whose funny one-liners are New Jersey legend — turns 90 today, and it won't be a quiet birthday.
- 2014-03-25
- NJBIZ
A coalition of members from the business, labor and legislative communities took to Port Elizabeth Tuesday to call on the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor to immediately fill what it says are nearly 500 job vacancies across the area's ports.
- 2014-03-20
- NJ.com
Hopefully, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez had no plans to summer in Moscow this year as he's been banned from Russia.
Menendez was one of six federal lawmakers who along with a number of advisors to President Obama were banned from Russia in retaliation for U.S. economic sanctions imposed by the president. The president announced the sanctions today over what he called the "illegitimate" annexation of Crimea by the Russians.