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NJ Spotlight
April 22, 2018
Republican Gov. Christine Todd Whitman collected $244 million from a 1996 collection initiative, and Democratic Gov. Jim McGreevey tallied $277 million from a 2002 amnesty program. But it was Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine's 2009 tax amnesty that was by far the most successful, raising $725 million for aÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
April 19, 2018
The $85,000 cost of the portrait is the highest for a governor since Democrat Jim Florio paid $58,000 for his. Christie's three immediate predecessors — Jon Corzine, Richard Codey and Jim McGreevey, all Democrats — paid a combined $74,500, according to past news reports. Story continues after photoÃâà...
WHYY
April 10, 2018
Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey said he's not sure why Gov. Phil Murphy's proposed budget does not include money for the program he runs that helps former inmates get the services they need to become productive citizens. McGreevey has asked the state for $5 million to maintain and expandÃâà...
wbgo.org
April 9, 2018
Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey says he's not sure why Governor Murphy's proposed budget does not include money for the program he runs that helps former inmates get the documents and services they need to become productive citizens. McGreevey told the Assembly Budget CommitteeÃâà...
NJ.com
April 8, 2018
Jim McGreevey was not among the best governors in New Jersey history, and he resigned in disgrace. But he is the best ex-governor ever, the Jimmy Carter of New Jersey, a man who works relentlessly to help the neediest people he can find, the wounded souls just released from prison with nowhere toÃâà...
NJ Spotlight
April 2, 2018
Jim McGreevey. “[Re-entry] was a pivotal moment in my recovery because it gave me purpose. It gave me a job, it gave me some type of direction. Without that program I don't know where I might have been.” Prisoner re-entry programs are at the forefront of fighting the opioid epidemic in prisoners andÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
March 31, 2018
Jim McGreevey is looking for a resurrection miracle. It's not what you think. After what McGreevey has been through as a governor who resigned in 2004 amid accusations that he gave his secret gay lover a state job, he would be the first to say that he is hardly much of a political messiah anymore.
NJ.com
March 29, 2018
... served at the Archbishop of Newark since 2016, shared candidly some of the issues caused by substance at the annual prisoner re-entry conference organized by ex-Gov. Jim McGreevey at Saint Peter's University. This year's discussion centered around the opioid and fentanyl crisis plaguing the nation.
NJ.com
March 26, 2018
A prisoner reentry program championed by former Gov. Jim McGreevey would lose all of its funding under Gov. Phil Murphy's first state budget proposal, NJ Advance Media has learned. In recent years, McGreevey has run a program that helps former prisoners acclimate to life after being behind bars.
NJ.com
March 17, 2018
Former Gov. Jim McGreevey, outside Healy's bar in Downtown Jersey City, held a ceremonial placing of the ashes of late Gov. Brendan Byrne outside the bar. Byrne had always joked that when he died he wanted to be buried in Hudson County so he could keep voting. Byrne's widow, Ruthi Byrne, and son,Ãâà...
Burlington County Times
March 17, 2018
Admirers of Byrne, who died in January at age 93, congregated Friday in Jersey City for a ceremony led by another former governor, Jim McGreevey. Byrne's widow, Ruthi, and son Tom also attended. Byrne used to joke that he wanted his ashes placed in Hudson County, known for its history of politicalÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
March 16, 2018
Former Governors Richard Codey, Jim McGreevey and Jim Florio greet Governor Phil Murphy as he enters the Assembly chambers to give his budget address. (Photo: Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com). Florio also paid a steep price – although he slowly redeemed his standing with voters, it was not enoughÃâà...
WJTV
March 14, 2018
Brendan Byrne, who died in January at age 93. Byrne used to joke he wanted his ashes placed in Hudson County, known for its history of political shenanigans, so he could stay active in politics. Democratic former Gov. Jim McGreevey is hosting the event at the bar, which is owned by a former mayor.
NJ.com
March 14, 2018
Sitting next to Florio in the front row was Democrat Jim McGreevey, who tried the same trick in 2002 and was also a one-termer. And then of course there was Democrat Corzine, another one-termer who raised taxes in his first budget. That history is bad enough. Worse, Senate President Steve Sweeney hasÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
March 14, 2018
Jim McGreevey is hosting the event at the bar, which is owned by a former mayor. Byrne's son says the event will be fun but adds the ashes will have a permanent home elsewhere. Byrne served two terms as governor in the 1970s. An event honoring his legacy is planned for April 13 at Princeton University.
FOX 29 News Philadelphia
March 14, 2018
Jim McGreevey is hosting the event at the bar, which is owned by a former mayor. Byrne's son says the event will be fun but adds the ashes will have a permanent home elsewhere. Byrne served two terms as governor in the 1970s. An event honoring his legacy is planned for April 13 at Princeton University.
NJ.com
March 11, 2018
Phil Murphy's push for a tax hike in his first budget, which he will present to the Legislature Tuesday, is reminiscent of the approach taken by his predecessors Jon Corzine and Jim McGreevey. Both Corzine and McGreevey proposed big tax hikes in their first budgets. McGreevey got a big hike in theÃâà...
Grub Street
March 6, 2018
... will cost factory workers their jobs, which will mean breweries will have less beer, which will be terrible for farmers, who'll have all this unused barley to sell. *The original version of this article incorrectly stated that Beer Institute CEO Jim McGreevy was also New Jersey's former governor, Jim McGreevey.
NJ.com
March 5, 2018
JERSEY CITY — Eugene McKnight, the Democratic political operative hired four years ago to work for former Gov. Jim McGreevey's prisoner re-entry program, has been fired after program officials learned he was taking monthly cash payments from ex-offenders he helped find jobs for, according to sourcesÃâà...
ROI-NJ.com
March 5, 2018
Tara Dowdell, who served in Gov. Jim McGreevey's administration in 2002-03, knows the effort it takes. As director of appointments for McGreevey, Dowdell pushed for greater diversity of candidates, which turned out to be more of a Herculean task than she anticipated. “I was aggressively trying to diversifyÃâà...
NJ.com
March 2, 2018
Jim McGreevey, who heads up the corporation, was there to lend Hall his own glasses. Then the agency helped arrange for Hall to get new prescription glasses, in effect allowing him to take the first steps toward his new life. "This here is a second sight, this is a second chance," the grateful ex-prisoner saidÃâà...
NJ.com
February 20, 2018
Kedar Hall was losing his eyesight when was released from his most recent stint in prison. First, former Gov. Jim McGreevey came to his aid and lended him his glasses. Then, McGreevey's agency, the New Jersey Reentry Corporation helped him get glasses and resume his life on the outside. The ReentryÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
Jim McGreevey is hosting the event at the bar, which is owned by a former mayor. Byrne's son says the event will be fun but adds his father's ashes will have a permanent home elsewhere. Byrne served two terms as governor in the 1970s. An event honoring his legacy is planned for April 13 at PrincetonÃâà...
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