ExxonMobil’s board of directors has recommended that the company move its corporate registration from New Jersey to Texas. That would align the oil and gas giant's domicile with the location of its physical headquarters in the Houston area.
Gov. Sherrill today proposed the first budget of her term — a $60.7B plan for NJ that tries to balance spending cuts and the affordability crisis.
“This is the budget we can afford. If there are things you think we need to add — come to me with places we can cut.”
gothamist.com/news/sherril...
Good stuff here from @mehayes.bsky.social
NY, NJ keep pushing lawsuit to break up Ticketmaster owner Live Nation gothamist.com/news/ny-nj-k...
Federal judge disqualifies trio leading New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office gothamist.com/news/federal...
Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol
new for @starledger.bsky.social, I wrote 2,000 words about #NewJersey’s new rule which will require homes built in flood-risk areas to be 4 feet above the standard set by FEMA. #JerseyShore builders and realtors are worried, environmentalists are happy but cautious.
www.nj.com/ocean/2026/0...
The Turnpike Authority is moving the plan along, this morning they approved the first two construction contracts for the new bridge
Took a look at what will happen to people in the Heights and other hospitals in Hudson County when the hospital formerly known as Christ closes its ER next week.
Federal judge says Trump administration can't kill NYC's congestion pricing tolls gothamist.com/news/federal...
Inside the efforts to block, implement or negotiate the expansion of NYC’s crucial rental assistance program
@wnyc.org @gothamist.com gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
Praise from Mayors Baraka and Solomon
A win for community groups, climate activists and local leaders in Newark and Jersey City: Gov. Sherrill announces her administration recommends the Turnpike Authority replace the Newark Bay Bridge only at its existing capacity, not an expansion www.nj.gov/governor/new...
Au revoir, Pompidou: Jersey City eyes affordable housing at scrapped museum project site gothamist.com/news/au-revo...
Jersey City says it will work with developers to build affordable housing, community space at a site previously held for the scrapped Pompidou plan gothamist.com/news/au-revo...
The Highlands Act has restricted development in much of North Jersey for 20 +years, to protect reservoirs, rivers and streams that provide water for 70% of the state. The restrictions — long derided locally — now may be a tool for blocking an ICE detention center
gothamist.com/news/ice-cou...
ER at troubled hospital in Jersey City's Heights gets a lifeline, for two weeks gothamist.com/news/er-at-t...
More good stuff from @mehayes.bsky.social today
Troubled Jersey City hospital to close Saturday, drawing outcry from nurses, city leaders gothamist.com/news/trouble...
Good stuff from @mehayes.bsky.social here
🚨NJ ICE SCOOP🚨
Trump admin paid nearly $130M for NJ warehouse it plans to turn into detention centers
That’s DOUBLE what the property is worth, according to the latest tax assessment.
gothamist.com/news/trump-a...
imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.
Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social has signed an executive order barring ICE from city property. www.newarknj.gov/m/newsflash/...
The emergency department of Heights University Hospital in Jersey City — formerly Christ Hospital — is closing for good this weekend. Mayor James Solomon, a trio of city council members and the nurses union are calling for a state investigation gothamist.com/news/trouble...
Breaking: A blind Burmese refugee named Nurul Shah Alam has been missing since Thurs. after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Tim Hortons, leaving him to find his own way home.
His family & lawyers weren't notified. They're seeking help to find him.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/24/b...
Hey, Internet, I cover Congress and the U.S. government for NJ Spotlight News, a non-profit newsroom.
Tonight I'm in the House of Representatives, watching Pres. Trump give his State of the Union remarks.
After a big wind-up, he is finally talking policy...🧵
@njspotlightnews.org
SCOTUS has denied a last ditch appeal by about 30 NJ towns to block the implementation of the state’s affordable housing mandate. Here’s the Montvale mayor, which was the lead town
Breaking WaPo:
A federal judge in Virginia rejected the Justice Department's request to search through a Washington Post reporter's electronic devices as part of a national security leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search.
USDOJ has sued New Jersey over Gov. Sherrill's recent executive order barring ICE operations on state property.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
