Lizette Delgado-Polanco announced Tuesday she is resigning from her role as head of the Schools Development Authority effective April 26, following months of mounting scrutiny into the controversial agency’s alleged “patronage” hiring practices.

The Democratic representatives from New Jersey joined six other senators in requesting $500 million for the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Program to reduce the repair backlog along the Northeast Corridor rail line.

A Monmouth University Poll released Tuesday, shows that among a field of 24 announced and potential presidential nominees, Joe Biden leads the pack while support for New Jersey's own Sen. Cory Booker's has fallen to 2 percent.

Efforts to construct a multi-billion dollar tunnel under the Hudson River met yet another hurdle, this time in Trenton and Albany rather than the White House, as lawmakers push for stricter public oversight of a proposed bi-state government agency that would oversee the project.

On March 27, the state appeals court ruled that although the Christie-era 2010 Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act offers no workplace protections for program enrollees, those patients are still protected by the state’s Law Against Discrimination.

The results from a joint NJBIA/Rutgers-Eagleton poll on April 10 captured the discontent of New Jersey residents. Yet here we are in the thick of budget season, with the call for more taxes in Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposed Fiscal Year 2020 budget, and not nearly enough in the way of structural reforms which are desperately needed to reverse New Jersey’s fiscal crisis.

The summer rental business is crucial to the state's economy and if the tax reduces tourism, a swath of business could be hurt. So, the Legislature has begun the process of amending the law to balance the interests of different constituencies while remaining consistent with constitutional requirements and federal law. That’s a difficult job, and with the summer season fast approaching it’s unclear whether lawmakers can enact the fixes in time to beat the heat.

Although the New Jersey labor force increased by 7,400 in March, it remains smaller than the average labor force size in 2006, before the last recession in 2008.

Six organizations will receive the funding from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development to provide training and support to individuals whose work has been interrupted due to the opioid epidemic under The Opioid Recovery Employment Program, or Pathways to Recovery.

The Thursday morning vote followed more than an hour of closed-door discussions and lengthy public comments from the Board of Public Utilities' five members, who voted 4-1 to approve the subsidies.

The biopharmaceutical company said the previously announced sale was brokered through the state Economic Development Authority’s New Jersey Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer program for New Jersey’s 2018 Fiscal Year.

New York will become the first major city in the country to implement such a measure when it goes into effect in 2021. Critics say it could add thousands of dollars in commuting costs a year for residents.