Angela McKnight Archives - New Jersey Globe

State issues new guidance on hairstyle discrimination

September 18, 2019 4:03 pm

The state Division of Civil Rights is issuing new guidance on hairstyles after a South Jersey wrestler was forced to cut off his dreadlocks or be disqualified last year. “Student athletes should be able to compete with each other on...

NJEA sides with GOP incumbents in key Assembly races

August 29, 2019 2:56 pmAugust 29, 2019 8:22 pm

The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) has endorsed four Republican incumbents in hotly contested races for the State Assembly in the 2019 mid-term elections. The state’s largest public employee union also declined to back South Jersey Democrats in their bids...

List of legislators seeking judge removal up to 21

July 16, 2019 11:25 amJuly 16, 2019 4:12 pm

Three more legislators have joined the growing bi-partisan list of lawmakers who want embattled Superior Court Judges James Troiano and Marcia Silva to resign. Assemblywomen Lisa Swain (D-Fair Lawn) and Angela McKnight (D-Jersey City) and Assemblyman Christopher Tully (D-Bergenfield) are...

Sumter, McKnight decline to say if they’d back budget without millionaire’s tax

June 10, 2019 10:37 amJune 10, 2019 12:00 pm

Editor’s Note: This article’s headline originally said Sumter and McKnight were not ready to back a budget that did not include a millionaire’s tax. Assemblywomen Shavonda Sumter and Assemblywoman Angela McKnight weren’t ready to support a budget that did not...

Two more legislators back millionaire’s tax

June 4, 2019 10:13 amJune 4, 2019 10:36 am

Gov. Phil Murphy’s bid to pass a millionaire’s tax has picked up two more votes in the State Assembly, with Nicholas Chiaravalloti (D-Bayonne) and Angela McKnight (D-Jersey City) announcing today that they would support a tax increase for households that...

Group seeks end to trade, travel restrictions with Cuba

March 26, 2019 8:00 amMarch 26, 2019 7:05 am

A group of New Jersey political and business leaders will push for statewide support to lift trade and travel restrictions on Cuba. New Jersey will become the 19th state to join Engage Cuba, a Washington-based lobbying group that advocates pro-engagement policies on...

Jersey City school board candidates win endorsements

October 29, 2018 12:09 pm

Three top Jersey City elected officials have endorsed Vidya Gangadin, Neil Abadie, and Dominique Smith for the Jersey City Board of Education. City Councilwoman Joyce Watterman, Hudson County Freeholder Jerry Walker, and Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (D-Jersey City) said they would...