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A nearly $45 billion budget with no tax increases in an election year.
That’s what Gov. Murphy proposed yesterday. And with no sign of the pandemic-related holes we were expecting earlier in the pandemic. You know, when the state borrowed $4.5 billion.
N.J. judge, former lawmaker Peter Barnes III dies at 64
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
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The longtime Edison resident died after an illness not related to COVID-19, the Senate Democratic Office said.
Barnes, a Democrat, represented Middlesex County’s 18th legislative district in the New Jersey Legislature for nearly a decade, serving in the Assembly from 2007-14 and then the Senate from 2014-16.
Gov. Phil Murphy said Barnes, the son of the late former state Assemblyman Peter Barnes Jr., “proudly continued his family’s legacy of service.”
“Pete garnered a reputation as a detail-driven lawmaker who put the need for good policy before the desire for a quick headline,” Murphy, a fellow Democrat, said. “A workhorse, not a showhorse. The things that made him a good legislator and beloved colleague also made him a model judge in our Superior Courts for the past nearly five years.”