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By KATHERINE LANDERGAN 02/23/2021 02:53 PM EST New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday unveiled a $44.8 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022 that imposes no new taxes or fees and makes t...

By ERIN DURKIN  02/23/2021 05:52 PM EST Last year, officials vowed an overhaul to expunge many New Yorkers from the city's DNA database, but the number of genetic profiles held by the ci...

By SAMANTHA MALDONADO  02/10/2021 05:00 AM EST The Board of Public Utilities still has a transparency problem. Six months ago, the board finally joined 48 other states in establish...

By SAM SUTTON  02/22/2021 07:25 PM EST New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy finally delivered on a 2017 campaign promise when he signed legislation Monday that legalizes cannabis for adults, decr...

By JANAKI CHADHA 02/22/2021 01:41 PM EST Virtually all of the candidates running for mayor have pledged to overhaul the city’s approach to a chronic homelessness crisis that left upwards of...

By DANIELLE MUOIO  02/22/2021 05:01 AM EST Air quality in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods like Hunts Point and the south side of Williamsburg is much worse than previously...

BY XIMENA BUSTILLO AND BIANCA QUILANTAN *This article was originally made available to POLITICO Pro subscribers on 2/18/2021 Our legislative reporting team diligently reads through hundr...

By DEBRA KAHN and COLBY BERMEL 02/16/2021 08:32 PM EST SAN FRANCISCO — A proposed fracking ban promises to complicate Gov. Gavin Newsom's political calculations as a recall campaign...

BY ELEANOR MUELLER *This article was originally made available to POLITICO Pro subscribers on 02/12/2021 Our legislative reporting team diligently reads through hundreds of pages of legi...

By MACKENZIE MAYS 02/03/2021 08:27 PM EST   SACRAMENTO — The city attorney for San Francisco, with support from Mayor London Breed, is suing San Francisco Unified and its school b...