HACKENSACK — Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco has put together a county budget for 2018 that increases spending but doesn't raise taxes, and instead relies on government raising more money through fees rather than hiking property taxes. 

HACKENSACK — Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco kicked off his reelection campaign this morning amid of a chorus of Democratic leaders led by Governor Phil Murphy who came to sing his praises. 

The Bergen County freeholder board will introduce a 2017 budget on Wednesday that is more than $1 million less than the $522-million spending plan proposed last month by County Executive James J. Tedesco III.

Two years after a devastating fire ripped through a large Edgewater apartment complex and destroyed the homes of some 500 people, Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto has introduced legislation intended to better protect residential buildings from fast moving blazes that can feast on wood construction.

They came despite a winter assault of rain, snow and sleet, toting signs and chanting boisterously on the steps of the Bergen County Courthouse in support of a myriad of causes they believe have come under attack in the first weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Bergen County Executive James J. Tedesco Gave his third State of The County Address.

Congress should use a rarely invoked 1924 law to examine President Donald Trump's tax returns for possible conflicts of interest and Constitutional violations, and maybe make them public, Rep. Bill Pascrell said Friday.

Philip D. Murphy, the former Goldman Sachs executive, won the coveted endorsement of the Bergen County Democratic Committee Thursday night, further solidifying his standing as front-runner for the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor.

Following the release this week of unverified reports alleging communication between Trump and the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 presidential campaign, a New Jersey congressman is calling for an independent congressional investigation of Trump’s alleged ties to the Russian government. U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell said Thursday that he wants congress to investigate the claims contained in the opposition research memo that has been making a convoluted path through the American news media.

The Senate is not always as civil as it makes itself out to be. In 1856, after delivering a series of abolitionist speeches, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was nearly beaten to death in the chamber by Representative Preston Brooks, a South Carolinian who laid in wait and greeted Sumner with a gutta-percha cane with a gold handle. In 1989, senators crushed one of their own, voting to deny John Tower, a Texas Republican who had served in the Senate for a quarter century, confirmation as secretary of defense, hauling out his drinking and hitting on female soldiers—as they should have.