The big shots in Trenton have just two weeks to settle on a budget, a time of year when good ideas and bad ideas do battle, with billions of dollars at stake. It is a curiosity of this year that ...

Ahead of an Assembly Appropriations Committee meeting Thursday, Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin pulled a controversial bill that would make various changes to the process for accessing government ...

Business is booming for New Jersey Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. An attorney by profession, Coughlin was a low-key state lawmaker with a solo law practice and a handful of municipal clients in the ...

FILE - New Jersey Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin before Gov. Phil Murphy delivers his budget address to a joint session of the Legislature at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., Feb. 28, 2023. New ...

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin (D) joins Steve Adubato to examine property tax relief for seniors, the importance of affordable child care, and the purpose of discretionary spending in the state ...

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin (D) – NJ joins Steve Adubato to discuss key issues impacting our state such as New Jersey’s fiscal health, food insecurity, and the importance of investing in childcare ...

(TNS) — Efforts to ban cellphones in New Jersey’s public school classrooms have a powerful new supporter in Trenton. State Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlintold NJ Advance Media that he favors approving ...

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey legislative leaders hit the brakes Thursday on a fast-moving bill that would have overhauled the state's open records law, following an outpouring of opposition from civil ...