He Was Fired After Bridgegate. Now He's Headed to White House.
Bill Stepien, the former Chris Christie campaign manager who was fired in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal, will be the new political director in Donald Trump's White House. WNYC reported last month...
View ArticleHe's a 1 Percenter, But Phil Murphy Says He'll Take on Wall Street
In ads and on the campaign trail, New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy often describes his upbringing as "middle class on a good day." His family got by "paycheck to paycheck." Yet when...
View ArticleChristie Vetoes Solitary Confinement Bill, Drawing Ire of Civil Libertarians
Civil liberty advocates are criticizing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for vetoing a bill that would have strictly limited the use of solitary confinement in the state's prisons and jails. The bill...
View ArticleWhy Wait? Hundreds of Thousands Already Voting in New Jersey
There are nearly 6 million people registered to vote in New Jersey. And many of them are not waiting until Tuesday to cast their vote for president — or other more local races. The New Jersey Division...
View ArticleBridgegate Jury Leaves Court Early as Lawyers Huddle Behind Closed Doors
The mysterious lane closures at the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee have now culminated with mysterious jury deliberations at a criminal courthouse in Newark. The third day of jury deliberations...
View ArticleTrust and Betrayal on Trial as Bridgegate Case Goes to Jury
It’s all up to the jury now in the Bridgegate case. Ostensibly the jury will have to decide if Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly, two former high-level employees of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie,...
View ArticleBridget Kelly Speaks: Christie's Ex-Aide Says Gov Knew About Bridgegate
In a dramatic refutation of Gov. Chris Christie's long-standing insistence that he knew nothing about the traffic study that led to the Bridgegate traffic jams, the governor's former deputy chief of...
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Train Crash in Hoboken Leads to Questions About Safety
One woman died and 108 people were injured when a rush-hour NJ Transit train crashed at Hoboken Terminal on Thursday morning. The wreck renewed questions about whether long-delayed automated safety...
View ArticleBridgegate Trial Primer: What Did Chris Christie Know — and When Did He Know...
For the last three years, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has maintained that a week's worth of lane closures and traffic jams at the foot of the George Washington Bridge were the result of rogue...
View ArticleSplit Over Transportation Funding in New Jersey Appears to Be Growing
Nearly two weeks after Gov. Chris Christie halted hundreds of transportation projects around New Jersey, the political impasse in Trenton over how the state should pay for infrastructure is no closer...
View ArticleChristie's Attorney General Delays Release of Bridgegate Legal Bills Until...
One of the tangential Bridgegate storylines that has triggered bad headlines for Gov. Chris Christie is how much he has charged taxpayers to cover the cost of the legal team representing his office:...
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Cuomo Involved in Keeping a Lid on Bridgegate Scandal
Three months into the Bridgegate scandal, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was asked about it for the first time. “I don’t know anything more than basically what has been in the newspaper, because it was...
View ArticleChristie Aide Politicking While Working on Taxpayers' Dime
While collecting a taxpayer-funded salary, a top aide to Gov. Chris Christie discussed rewards for those who endorsed the governor's 2013 reelection, WNYC has learned. Three newly revealed emails...
View ArticleGov. Christie: Proposed School Funding Plan Is About Fairness
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is proposing sweeping changes to the way student aid is allocated throughout the state. Christie announced a plan on Tuesday to distribute aid equally to all the state's...
View ArticleDays After Rest of Country, Christie Finally Orders Flags Lowered To Honor...
Following President Obama's order Sunday to lower flags on federal property to honor the victims of the Orlando massacre, governors in almost every state followed suit, mandating that flags in be...
View ArticleInflux of Orthodox Jews in Lakewood Causing Growth, and Conflict
The Ocean County town of Lakewood is New Jersey’s fastest-growing municipality, thanks to a soaring number of Orthodox Jews who have moved there from New York. Located about 10 miles from the shore,...
View ArticleNJ's Sandy Czar Quietly Steps Down
New Jersey's second "Sandy czar" has stepped down. With plenty of rebuilding left to be done, Terrence Brody quietly left the Christie Administration to join a private consulting firm. The Ankura...
View ArticleTrump's Sister, The Judge: A Life Vastly Different, But Often Intertwined
When the oldest of the Trump children, Maryanne Trump Barry, graduated from law school as a stay-at-home mother and landed a job at the US Attorney’s Office in New Jersey in the 1970s, she was one of...
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Bridgegate's 10 Stunning Plot Turns, From Christie To Trump
via GIPHYBridgegate might just be the wildest political scandal (not involving sex) in New Jersey history. And that's saying something. Here are Bridgegate's top 10 plot twists over the scandal's 1,001...
View ArticleAppeals Court Halts Release of Bridgegate Conspirator Names, For Now
Bridgegate conspirator John Doe gets to keep his name secret, for now. The federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to delay the release of the list of "un-indicted co-conspirators" who helped...
View ArticleBridgegate Prosecutors Have a Second List: Who Knew
There actually may be an answer to the question: What did Chris Christie know about Bridgegate, and when did he know it? Legal papers filed late Wednesday in federal court in Newark revealed the...
View ArticlePresidential Primary Season Comes to NJ
Bernie Sanders fired up students at Rutgers University over the weekend. A few days later, Hillary Clinton took the stage in Camden County. And Donald Trump is about to join them, holding his first New...
View ArticleClinton Runs in New Jersey — Against Trump, Not Sanders
GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ - Less than four weeks before the state's June 7 primary, Hillary Clinton campaigned in New Jersey on Wednesday for the first time this year. But instead of going after her...
View ArticleNJ Democrats Feud as Atlantic City Teeters on Bankruptcy Brink
A highly-anticipated vote on the New Jersey Assembly's rescue plan for Atlantic City was put on hold by Speaker Vincent Prieto. He said he had to postpone the vote to next Wednesday due to the absence...
View ArticleWhy Did Port Authority Scale Back Its Truck Emissions Program?
The Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal is the busiest seaport on the East Coast and the third largest in the United States. Thousands of trucks pass through Newark's Ironbound neighborhood to reach...
View ArticleLISTEN: "Safe Water/Safe Cities" Panel Discussion
When recent tests showed elevated lead levels in the water of Newark’s schools, New Jersey’s largest city had to confront some tough questions. What can an aging city like Newark do to protect its...
View ArticleBridgegate Lawyers Want To See Christie's Phone
It's been more than 2 1/2 years since lanes to the George Washington Bridge mysteriously closed. Two former Christie appointees were indicted in the scheme and have a trial scheduled for September. But...
View ArticleThree Reasons Why You Haven't Seen Christie Standing Behind Trump Recently
Gov. Chris Christie hasn't done a TV news interview or spoken at a Trump rally in a month. What happened to Trump's most prominent endorser?1) The official answer from Christie allies is that he's...
View ArticleEx-Christie Aide, Ousted After Bridgegate, Returns to Help Lt. Governor
Bill Stepien, a top campaign aide for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who was ousted in the wake of Bridgegate, is running an organization that is laying the groundwork for Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno's...
View ArticleIs Racial Profiling Police Policy in Bloomfield?
Lawyers and activists said they think alleged racial profiling by Bloomfield police, which the township and police officials deny, is an example of a practice that is probably widespread in similar New...
View ArticleDeal Reached on NJ Supreme Court Stalemate
Gov. Chris Christie has nominated criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor Walter Timpone for a seat on the New Jersey Supreme Court. The nomination is part of a deal the Republican...
View ArticleAtlantic City, Bracing for Takeover, Sees Camden as Cautionary Tale
ATLANTIC CITY - Gov. Chris Christie has dedicated much of his time in office to saving Atlantic City. He created a state-run tourism district, he started a marketing campaign and he pledged more than...
View ArticleChristie Trumpsplains His Candidate's 'Riot'
Gov. Chris Christie continued Friday in his new role explaining what Donald Trump means when he makes statements deemed extreme. This time Christie had to Trumpsplain what the candidate meant when he...
View ArticleAtlantic City Mayor Calls State Takeover Plan a 'Dictatorship'
A plan for the state to take over cash-strapped Atlantic City amounts to a "dictatorship" that would violate the civil rights of city residents, according to Mayor Don Guardian. The Republican mayor...
View ArticleThe Public's Tab for Bridgegate Legal Bills Now Exceeds $13 Million, and...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's law firm hired a digital forensics firm that has so far billed taxpayers more than $2.2 million as part of the ongoing Bridgegate case, according to invoices dating...
View ArticleQuestions Swirl Around Deaths of Politically-Prominent Couple
It's been nearly 18 months since John and Joyce Sheridan's bodies were found in their burning home, the result of what the Somerset County Prosecutors' Office said was a "murder-suicide." But questions...
View ArticleChristie Opposes Democrats' Pension Proposal in Budget Address
In his first public appearance since suspending his White House run last week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offered thanks to his home state. In the opening moments of his 2017 budget address,...
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Chris Christie Ends White House Bid
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has suspended his campaign for the White House according to a spokesperson for the Governor.The Republican placed sixth in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday after banking...
View ArticleChris Christie and New Hampshire: 10 Things That Went Wrong
In the end, the Jersey street fighter got knocked out in the match he needed to win. Gov. Chris Christie finished in sixth place in the New Hampshire primary, which spells the end of his presidential...
View ArticleChris Christie Ran For President and All New Jersey Got Was a Pig Crate Ban Veto
Ten months into Chris Christie's term as governor, he went to Iowa for the first time. He was there to campaign for Republican Gov. Terry Branstad. As Star-Ledger reporter Josh Margolin, covering the...
View ArticleWall Street Turns Off the Spigot for Anti-Gay New Jersey Congressman
US Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) has been a longtime beneficiary of Wall Street's funding heft, thanks in large part to his chairmanship of the Financial Services Commitee, a body which holds significant...
View ArticleFact checkers keep slamming Christie's campaign trail statements
In the past week, Gov. Chris Christie has made several remarks on the campaign trail that have been refuted by fact-checkers. Here's a sampling:"The murder rate in New York City is up 11 percent."...
View ArticleNJ Psychology Practice Revealed Patients’ Mental Disorders in Debt Lawsuits
When a New Jersey lawyer named Philip received legal papers last year informing him that his former psychologist’s practice was suing him over an unpaid bill, he was initially upset they could not work...
View ArticleWhy Northeast Priorities Take a Backseat in Congress
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton and more than a dozen officers traveled to the halls of the U.S. Senate recently to speak up for a program that is universally supported at home. Most...
View ArticleCasinos, Guns & Pension Funds: NJ's Legislative Session Winds Down
As the current session of the New Jersey legislature draws to a close, lawmakers are considering a variety of measures that have the potential to dramatically impact the state's perennially troubled...
View ArticleChristie's Bridgegate Lawyers Engaged in 'Gamesmanship,' Judge Says
A federal court judge says that although the taxpayer-funded investigation into the Christie Administration's actions during the Bridgegate scandal were inappropriate, a subpoena to seek more...
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Christie's Bridgegate Lawyer Is Raising Money For 'Christie 2016'...
One of the lawyers who issued a taxpayer-funded report exonerating Gov. Chris Christie in the Bridgegate affair is co-hosting a $2,700-a-person Los Angeles fundraiser for the governor's presidential...
View ArticleDirty Little Secrets: Leaky Tanks Cause Big Headaches for NJ Homeowners
Dealing with the removal of underground oil tank is a problem facing many New Jersey homeowners. But Eliot Zigmund’s problem is more accurately described as a nightmare — which has so far cost...
View ArticleDirty Little Secrets: New Jersey Is Just a Storm Away from a Major Toxic Mess
It was early on October 30, 2012, after the winds from Sandy had died down, when the call came in to the Coast Guard’s National Response Center hotline. Just before 5 a.m., a worker at the Motiva...
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Dirty Little Secrets: New Jersey’s Poorest Live Surrounded by Contamination
Agent Orange, the chemical used to clear the jungle during the Vietnam War, was made in New Jersey. It’s now at the bottom of the Passaic River and buried under Newark, entombed in cement.For 150...
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