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Trenton councilwoman’s latest racist comments draw rebuke from Latino, Black lawmakers

October 10, 2021 3:59 pmOctober 10, 2021 11:28 pm

Trenton City Councilwoman Robin Vaughn is in hot water again, with Black and Brown legislators issuing a strong worded statement scolding her for asking the city’s Latino business administrator if he spoke English. The Trentonian first reported that Vaughn “lashed...

Murphy hires new Hispanic outreach staffer

September 30, 2021 11:10 amSeptember 30, 2021 5:55 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy has hired a new aide to coordinate outreach to Hispanic communities across the state. Robert Matos-Moran began working as an aide to Murphy in his outreach department on Monday. He previously worked on the staffs of U.S....

Five months later, Sue Fulton’s Pentagon nomination remains stalled

September 28, 2021 10:08 amSeptember 28, 2021 10:09 am

The U.S. Senate will vote today on the confirmation of a top aide to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez as Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for the Bureau of Political and Military Affairs, but President Joe Biden’s nomination...

Menendez job approvals at 43%, Monmouth Poll shows

September 23, 2021 11:00 amSeptember 23, 2021 4:50 pm

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez has job approval ratings of 43%-35%, according to a new poll released Thursday by the Monmouth University Polling Institute. These numbers come three years before Menendez, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will...

Booker reintroduces bill reversing Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision

September 15, 2021 10:37 am

U.S. Senator Cory Booker today reintroduced the Do No Harm Act, a bill aimed at undoing the Supreme Court’s 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision allowing the arts and crafts giant Hobby Lobby to be exempt from the Affordable Care...

Menendez slaps Blinken on Afghanistan, demands ‘accountability’

September 14, 2021 2:45 pmSeptember 14, 2021 11:05 pm

New Jersey’s Bob Menendez isn’t giving President Joe Biden a pass on the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan just because they’re both Democrats. As chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez made that clear this morning when...

FEMA issues major disaster declarations for Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Union Counties

September 10, 2021 1:37 pmSeptember 10, 2021 3:07 pm

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued Ida-related major disaster declarations in four more counties – Essex, Hudson, Mercer, and Union – bringing the total number of New Jersey counties included up to 10. “We just received a [FEMA]...