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Sweeney: Reform saves pensions for 800,000 workers
Steve Sweeney Noting he started working on pension reform in 2006, Senate President Steve Sweeney says tough decisions have to be made but reform is an adjustment not the end of public unions. It is...
View ArticleNo agreement on NJN contract
The Assembly has voted 45-30 for a resolution to kill the contract to allow WNET to take over NJN TV. Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan, who sponsored the resolution, said the takeover made no sense. The...
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New York approves same sex marriage
It might have gone unnoticed here in Jersey while pension and health care reform was on the front burner, but our neighbor to the north has legalized same sex marriage. New York is the sixth and...
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Like Scarlet said, ‘Tomorrow is another day’
After Gov. Christie signed into law the historic pension and health benefits reforms, he had kind words for Senate President Steve Sweeney who was banging the drums for such changes in 2006 and got...
View ArticleAnd then the pot said about the kettle
More political games. The communications director of the Republican party is asking Senate President Steve Sweeney to apologize for names he called Gov. Christie. Rich Gorka said, "Senate President...
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Summer time and … the Senate is coming back
Steve Sweeney Senate President Steve Sweeney will call the Senate into session starting Monday to try to override Gov. Christie's nearly $913 million in budget cuts. "This is about priorities. This is...
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Sweeney won’t go along with key education reformswere
Steve Sweeney Senate President Steve Sweeney says he will not go along with two of Gov. Christie's main education reforms -- merit pay and ending last-in, first-out when layoffs happen. But Sweeney...
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An exciting week coming at us
Steve Sweeney Used to be summers were slow around the Statehouse. No more. This week the Democrats will try to override the almost $913 million Gov. Christie cut out of the budget the Democrats sent...
View ArticleNot much excitement second day
There were less fireworks on the second day of the Senate Democrats' attempt to override Gov. Christie's line-item vetoes in the budget. But this one caught some attention: Sen. Ray Lesniak spoke in...
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Ho Hum, AFL-CIO doesn’t endorse Sweeney or Norcross
Steve Sweeney The AFL-CIO, mostly the part of it that is made up of public employee unions, declined to endorse Senate President Steve Sweeney and Sen. Don Norcross, among others, in the November...
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Now who saw that coming?
Sheila Oliver Stop the presses! The NJEA has failed to endorse Senate President Steve Sweeney and Speaker Sheila Oliver in the November election. That's because the duo supported reform of health care...
View ArticlePay-to-play here to stay?
Politicians never fix anything if fixing it would crimp their style. The state has a pay-to-play law that says local contracts can be awarded to political donors as long as the process is "fair and...
View ArticleMarriage equality referendum called cop-out
State Sen. Kip Bateman has introduced a resolution calling for a referendum on same-sex marriage. If he thinks that gets lawmakers off the hook from voting on the issue, he is sadly mistaken. Senate...
View ArticleMaybe it wasn’t best of all plans after all
People complaining about the plan to merge Rowan and Camden-Rutgers are having an impact. The AP reports a dozen or so high-level Democrats and university officials are meeting privately to try to make...
View ArticleRice gone, but Barchi and Pernetti still at Rutgers
Rutgers basketball Coach Mike Rice was fired yesterday. But his boss, Athletic Director Tim Pernetti and school President Robert Barchi are still employed, why is that? A dozen faculty members wrote a...
View ArticleAnother Rutgers coach gone, Pernetti and Barchi still there
Senate President Steve Sweeney has called on Rutgers Athletic Director Tim Pernetti to either quit or be fired. That should go for school President Robert Barchi too since they both used extremely poor...
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You have to wonder what went wrong
Steve Sweeney Used to be Gov. Christie could talk about how well he works with Democrats. There seems to be a climate change in the Statehouse. Senate President Steve Sweeney noted the governor was...
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ESPN report: Deal Ray Rice got not common in NJ
Atlantic County, New Jersey, Prosecutor James McClain says NFL star Ray Rice was treated like any other case when he got into a pretrial intervention program after slugging his now-wife in an...
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Registered voters unsure about who should follow Chris Christie in NJ
Registered voters are anything but united on who should replace Gov. Christie when he no longer is chief executive of New Jersey. Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll asked...
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Sweeney: Christie pension commission report nothing new
Sen. Steve Sweeney (NJ Senate Photo) This probably won't surprise many people. A special commission on New Jersey's public retirement system says it is carrying $90 billion in unfunded pension and...
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