The most popular sport of 2019 has been basketball, where patrons bet $657 million.

Despite the battle over tax incentives, the state has managed to expand a program aimed at early tech investors.

During a Friday morning radio segment on WCTC, Coughlin said the last chance for lawmakers to act on any legislative priorities would be the lame duck session—the months between the November midterm elections and the start of the new legislative session in January.

The Newark Business Certification Expo "represents billions of dollars of potential business opportunities for local minority-and women-led businesses," said Bernel Hall, CEO of the Newark Community Economic Development Corp.

The New Jersey Business Action Center, part of the New Jersey Department of State, has launched a podcast to address the specific challenges of Garden State businesses – from how to set up an LLC, to learning how to export your products – and the ways owners can utilize the center’s free services.

Allison Ladd, currently deputy director of the city's Office of Housing and Development, will replace outgoing leader John Palmieri.

Signed Wednesday by Gov. Phil Murphy, the legislation allows municipalities to designate certain nonprofit or public entities as “land banks,” which would acquire vacant properties and revitalize them into sites, like housing or businesses, to benefit the neighborhood.

The incentive is doubled to 20 percent, and can go up to 25 percent for investments in low-income communities, federal “opportunity zones,” or businesses owned by women or people of color.

“Misclassifying workers as 1099 employees denies them benefits, robs the State Treasury of needed revenue, and makes it harder for law-abiding businesses to compete,” said Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo in a prepared statement.

A number of companies tied to South Jersey powerbroker George Norcross that have been the main focus of the Murphy administration’s tax break task force did not appear when the panel heard public comments during a July 9 hearing. The companies have repeatedly pushed for a chance to publicly address allegations made by the task ...

That move should have been grounds to reduce or deny the tax breaks awarded, task force chief counsel Jim Walden said, or “at a very minimum merited additional follow-up questions from the [Economic Development Authority].”

“Because portions of the Grow [New Jersey] statute were drafted to favor particular parties and disfavor others, we think that there is a very real question as to whether those portions of the statute are unconstitutional,” task force chief counsel Jim Walden said at the panel's July 9 hearing.