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Will Gov. Murphy honor his pledge to pay back billions he borrowed now that N.J. is flush with cash?
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy delivers his Fiscal Year 2021 budget address at Rutgers University s SHI Stadium in August.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Med
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Gov. Phil Murphy’s multi-billion dollar borrowing pitch always came with a disclaimer.
If New Jersey somehow, someway borrowed more money than it needed to dig out from the coronavirus pandemic, the governor had a Plan B, he said.
“We can just pay the debt down immediately,” Murphy explained on April 16, 2020, addressing what his administration presented as an unlikely scenario.
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Editor s note: This is Part 1 in a three part series by the Reno Gazette Journal exploring the unprecedented pitch to lawmakers to allow tech companies to form their own governments in Nevada. On Tuesday, read about how the proposal has set two colorful powerbrokers at odds for control of Storey County. On Wednesday, you ll finally learn the backstory of the man behind the entire enterprise. This kind of journalism takes time and resources. To read the entire series, please consider subscribing.
Back in September, Jeff Berns, the CEO of Blockchains Inc., introduced Gov. Steve Sisolak to a big idea a proposed 35,000-person, Blockchains-owned “smart city,” complete with its own energy and transportation grid, on 5,000 acres of mountainous desert in Storey County.
Donnelly: Proposed bills chart wrong course for state By Ann Donnelly
Share: Ann Donnelly, a Vancouver businesswoman, is a former chair of the Clark County Republican Party. Photo
Washington’s economy needs some TLC. Last year’s employment decline was deeper than during the Great Recession. Recovery is fragile. Yet our Democrat-controlled Legislature is advancing four bills that would add costs and taxes, impose more government controls, and invent arcane new regulations without a rigorous look at either costs or effectiveness.
As background, about half of businesses polled in a survey cited in the March 30 Columbian are pessimistic or already closed. For families, statewide demand for Basic Foods and Temporary Assistance programs are up by 20 percent since last year, according to the state Commerce Department. Lawmakers’ priorities should skew toward enticing new entries to our economy, fostering businesses expansions, and keeping family costs low.