Few consumers understand that when they pay their utility bills, their money helps keeps lights on at state facilities and cover costs for NJ Transit

Education advocates say 1 percent increase is inadequate but at least better than cuts they feared

What will Christie propose to deal with state pensions, transportation funding, taxes and other pressing fiscal issues?

Commission’s report calls for reforms it says are needed to reduce costs of public-employee benefits

Bipartisan bill aims to ease local property tax burden by phasing out diversion of revenues to state coffers

While lawmakers and administration bicker, mayors don't know how much to budget for road maintenance -- or where the money will come from

But slight budget cushion forecast for first six months of fiscal year may not be enough to justify dropping state’s estate tax

Combined reporting requirement would prevent big firms from shifting income to states with lower tax rates

But they agree to address concerns about millions in fees paid to private fund managers

Credit-rating agency cites uncertain outlook for employee pension payments, transportation fund