by Bruce A. Scruton of the New Jersey Herald bscruton@njherald.com NEWTON – At 7:24 p.m., the subject was doing 1 mph, apparently stopped at the intersection of Routes 10 and 46.  A minute later, she was on Route 10 doing 37 mph. At 7:26p.m., her vehicle turned onto Hunter Street, approaching Main Street and moving at 14 mph.  The Google map presentation on the computer screen showed she was almost to a church, neatly outlined in blue. “That blue indicates an approved place,” said Mark Turtur, supervising juvenile detention officer in the Sussex County Department of Human Services, as ...

by Chase Bush of POLITICKERNJ TRENTON — Flexing their political and labor support muscles in a jam-packed committee room up on the fourth floor of the statehouse annex here today, Forward NJ — the blue-ribbon coalition launched last year to advocate for the state’s ailing transportation system — offered a scathing appraisal of the progress the legislature is making toward fixing a depleted Transportation Trust Fund. “For New Jersey to ignoring its unique strength as the epicenter of a wealthy, well-educated metropolis, as a gateway to international markets, and its location in close proximit...

Mr. Speaker... Mr. Senate President... Lt. Governor Guadagno... Members of the legislature... Friends and citizens of New Jersey: I come before you, as required by the state constitution, to report on the condition of our state. The state of our state continues to get better. New Jersey is better off than it was last year at this time, and it is certainly far better off than it was just five years ago. While many first years of a second term show a hangover from the campaign and its partisanship, we have fought through that tradition and have real accomplishments to show for that action in 201...