By Dave Fidlin, includes “New Jersey’s pre-pandemic balance sheet was described as being in ‘dire fiscal health’ in a recently released independent analysis of states’ finances. In its annual report, Financial State of the States 2020, officials with the organization Truth in Accounting ranked New Jersey No. 50 of all states for its fiscal condition heading into this year’s unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. The dead-last showing earned it a grade of ‘F’ from the nonprofit …”