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TRENTON, N.J. -- A team investigating the crash that seriously injured Gov. Jon S. Corzine has determined that the state trooper at the wheel could have prevented the April 12 accident, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported. Citing an anonymous state law enforcement source, The Star-Ledger said State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes has received the conclusions of the State Police Motor Vehicle Accident and Vehicular Pursuit Review Board. Fuentes is expected to issue a response to the finding this afternoon, according to the newspaper, which said the official did not want to be named so as not to upstage the...

Governor Corzine will spell out a detailed plan next week to change the way government services are paid for in New Jersey, but warns that wholesale property tax reform could take years. The governor will address the Legislature on Friday, the start of a special session dedicated to property tax reform. "I think we can do something in the short run, but the real work is about changing the long-term structures," Corzine said Friday in an interview with The Record. "Some of that doesn't have short-term gratification. It will take a number of years to come back with real dividends....

TRENTON (Reuters) - New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine will unveil a $30.9 billion budget plan for fiscal 2007 on Tuesday that will seek to close a projected $3.8 billion gap partly by raising the state's sales tax and by slowing state spending by about $2 billion, the state treasurer said. ADVERTISEMENT Philadelphia, March Corzine's proposed budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 would be up 9 percent from the $28.3 billion budget in fiscal 2006, state Treasurer Bradley Abelow said in a briefing for reporters at the state house on Monday. Most of that increased spending came in part...

(TRENTON, NJ) – Gubernatorial candidate Doug Forrester today called on Jon Corzine to fully disclose the details surrounding a vote in the Senate that earned Corzine millions of dollars. “Jon Corzine voted to bail out Japanese bank underwriters at a cost of millions of dollars to U.S. taxpayers. It’s disturbing to learn he was one of a tiny handful who made millions of dollars of the vote.” Despite extensive briefing by the Department of Treasury and Committee on Taxations, Corzine claims that he had no knowledge that he stood to earn approximately $5 million by casting a vote to give...