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Sayegh will seek third term in Paterson, forgoes primary challenge vs. Pou

November 11, 2025 9:05 pmNovember 12, 2025 9:06 am

Ending speculation that he will challenge Rep. Nellie Pou (D-North Haledon) in the Democratic primary for Congress, Andre Sayegh will seek re-election to a third term as mayor of Paterson next year, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Sayegh is...

One big winner of the 2025 elections: Nellie Pou

November 5, 2025 4:23 pmNovember 5, 2025 4:35 pm

When New Jersey’s 9th congressional district in Paterson and its suburbs voted for Donald Trump last year, Democrats and Republicans alike wondered how durable the GOP’s new coalition would be. Rep. Nellie Pou (D-North Haledon)’s plurality-Hispanic district had long been...

Nellie Pou’s tricky balance on Israel and Palestine

September 9, 2025 3:25 pmSeptember 30, 2025 10:04 am

Rep. Nellie Pou (D-North Haledon)’s America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)-affiliated trip to Israel last month was always going to cause some controversy – and it did. The trip, which fellow New Jersey Rep. Herb Conaway (D-Delran) also joined, came...

Labor Leader: The story of Tom Giblin’s magnificent political career

September 1, 2025 12:15 amAugust 31, 2025 11:20 pm

Thomas P. Giblin got hooked on New Jersey politics at the age of seven, when his father won a seat on the Essex County Board of Freeholders in 1954. Over the last eight decades, he’s had a front-row seat watching...

Billy Prempeh, continuing to struggle with fundraising, has negative cash on-hand

July 16, 2025 10:30 am

When Donald Trump narrowly and unexpectedly carried New Jersey’s 9th congressional district last year, it put Billy Prempeh, the dogged but largely unknown GOP nominee for the seat, in a national spotlight he’d never experienced before. But now, running for...

Nellie Pou raises more than $500k ahead of tough re-election fight

July 8, 2025 3:13 pmJuly 9, 2025 3:36 am

Rep. Nellie Pou (D-North Haledon), one of the country’s most unexpected swing-district House members, raised more than $500,000 in the 2nd quarter of 2026, a new record for the first-term congresswoman. Pou’s campaign said that it had around $780,000 on-hand...

Pascrell, late stalwart of Congressional Baseball Game, inducted into Hall of Fame

June 11, 2025 7:24 pmJune 11, 2025 7:26 pm

By the time Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson)’s final season in the Congressional Baseball Game rolled around last year, the congressman wasn’t exactly at an age where he could run around the bases without breaking a sweat. But Pascrell was doggedly...