Governor Christie’s Announcement On Budget

Governor Chris Christie will hold a press conference this afternoon at 2PM to announce his steps to close the $800 million budget deficit in the current fiscal year.

The budget must be balanced on June 30.

The press conference can be viewed live here:

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Breaking Up PA Would Solve Christie’s Transportation Trust Fund Problem

Breaking Up PA Would Solve Christie’s Transportation Trust Fund Problem (via NJSpotlight)

Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal to dismantle the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in order to give each state control more than $1.3 billion in annual tolls would solve his biggest fiscal headache: where to find $1.6 billion a year in state…

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Hurricane Sandy victims make do in trailers as they wait to rebuild

Hurricane Sandy victims make do in trailers as they wait to rebuild (via NJ.com)

Tina Napalo lived in a bungalow-style house on Fourth Street in Union Beach for more than 20 years. “I didn’t have everything,” said the 40-year-old mother of four, but, “it took me a long time to get what I had.” Then Hurricane Sandy hit.…

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Christie to hold a Town Hall Meeting in Middletown on Thursday

Governor Chris Christie will hold his first Town Hall meeting since June next Thursday morning in Middletown at VFW Post 2179, 1 Veterans Lane (Off Rt 36), Port Monomuth.

The Town Hall is scheduled to begin at 11 am.  Doors open at 10 am.  A mobile cabinet meeting is scheduled for 12:30 pm.

Seating is on a first come first served basis. No bags of any kind are permitted into the venue and personal items are subject to search.

RSVP’s are requested at   [email protected] in order to accommodate sufficient seating.

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Trenton Twilight Zone

Republican Governor Chris Christie proposed pension and benefit reforms that would have resulted in a $300 million budget savings in the coming fiscal year and that actuaries said would have corrected the system.

Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, Democrats, gave Christie a “compromise” that results in a $9 million budget savings in the coming year and that actuaries say doesn’t go far enough.

Christie and the Republicans in the legislature are celebrating.  The media is calling the bill a landmark reform.

The Democrats and their union benefactors are having a civil war.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone.

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