Trenton, NJ – The NJN News team presents live coverage of Governor Jon Corzine’s annual budget message to a joint session of the New Jersey State Legislature on Thursday, February 22 beginning at 11 am with a rebroadcast at 10 pm. The 90-minute program will include the legislative response to the governor’s budget message as well as analysis of his remarks by Republican political insider Roger Bodman and Democratic political insider Rick Thigpen. NJN News anchor Kent Manahan hosts the program and senior political correspondent Michael Aron provides coverage from the State House. The program will air simultaneously on NJN Public Radio and will be web streamed and archived at njn.net. Closed captioning is provided.

Funding for this special NJN public affairs program provided by PSE&G, Wachovia, Verizon, The Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, The New Jersey State Bar Foundation, The New Jersey Education Association, The New Jersey Association of REALTORS, Delta Dental Plan of New Jersey, BP, The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, and The Proformance Insurance Company.

NJN is available on all New Jersey cable systems, satellite systems, and Time Warner Cable channel 750 in NYC.
The half-hour program is also available via video streaming at njn.net after the original broadcast.
Additionally, the program is repeated on NJN’s JerseyVision available on Comcast Digital Cable in New Jersey.
(Check http://www.njn.net/digital/schedule.html for detailed listings.)
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