Michael Aron

At 6:30 this evening on NJN, PoltickerNJ.com correspondent Matt Friedman will join a political roundtable to discuss New Jersey's current political scene. Friedman will be joined by Gannett New Jersey's Greg Volpe, Politifax's Nick Acocella, and the Bergen Record's Charles Stile, with NJN Senior Political Correspondent Michael Aron hosting the discussion.

The roundtable will recap the state's U.S. Senate primary elections, ongoing budget negotiations, legislative hearings on executive county school superintendents and the possibility that Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine's emails to Carla Katz may be made public.

Reporters Roundtable with Michael Aron (Friday at 6:30PM and Sunday at 10AM): Dusty McNichol (Star-Ledger), Mark I’onno (Star-Ledger), Matt Friedman (PolitickerNJ.com) and John Reitmeyer (The Record) discuss the U.S. Senate race, the Farmers Rally in Trenton, proposed state parks closings, and congestion pricing in New York City.

On the Record with Michael Aron (Sunday at 9AM and 11AM and Monday at 6:30AM): Julie Roginsky, Gregg Edwards, Rick Perr and Steve Lonegan talk about the U.S. Senate race

NJN News will provide complete live coverage of Governor Jon Corzine’s Budget Message to a joint session of the New Jersey State Legislature on Tuesday, February 26, at 11:30 am. Kent Manahan hosts the program live from the Trenton studios with senior political correspondent Michael Aron at the State House.  This special public affairs program will be simulcast on NJN Public Radio, and web cast and archived on the NJN web site.  The budget message will be rebroadcast on NJN Public Television at 10 pm. 

U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie will appear on New Jersey's Network's On the Record this weekend, where Michael Aron will question him on his decision to hire former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft as a federal monitor. The post could pay more than $30 million over the next eighteen months.

Zulima Farber is strongly resisting advice from friends that she resign quickly, according to a source close to the Attorney General. In an interview last month, Farber had told NJN's Michael Aron that she would step down if the Special Prosecutor concludes that she should.

The first debate in the race for U.S. Senate could have occurred as early as last Friday, when both candidates addressed the Southern New Jersey Development Council in Atlantic County. The group became the audience for Tom Kean's interview with New Jersey Network senior political correspondent Michael Aron; Robert Menendez spoke earlier, but turned down a joint NJN interview with Kean.