Take a look at Bob Ingle's
blog, there's tons of stuff in there that could help you with your paper. He's the Trenton Bureau Chief for Gannett NJ, and he posts a lot of stuff most people won't normally hear about.
As for the governor, salary or not, he's spineless and a liar. He consistently caves in to the special interest groups, and has gone back on vitually every campaign promise he made. Not to mention, his property tax reform is a joke. The reason he's not taking a salary is because he has more money than probably everyone on this board combined from his years at Goldman Sachs. He doesn't really even want to be governor.....he's just using it as a stepping stone to the White House (which hopefully he never gets).