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Menendez, Booker Announce $3M to Support Head Start

June 17, 2019 2:22 pm

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $3,277,085 to support the Head Start program at The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey in Mercer...

Maps: The race for Assembly in LD-21

June 16, 2019 1:02 pmJune 16, 2019 1:06 pm

In a district where the Democrats have increased their voter registration edge by over 4,000 votes since 2017, while the Republicans have only increased their voter share by slightly under 1300 votes, Democratic candidates Lisa Mandelblatt and Stacey Gunderman are...

Once a GOP stronghold, Westfield now leans Democratic

June 16, 2019 12:13 pmJune 17, 2019 9:14 am

Westfield was a solidly Republican town for more than a century, but it’s become a Democratic-leaning swing town in recent years. Bramnick finished second in Westfield when he ran for re-election in 2017, finishing 222 votes behind Democrat Lacey Cotter...

Menendez, Booker blast FCC for renewing WWOR broadcast license

June 14, 2019 4:06 pm

U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker slammed Federal Communications Commissions chairman Ajit Pai for renewing WWOR-TV’s broadcast license after the network sold its New Jersey offices and essentially pulled out of the state. “The decision to renew the license...

Maps: The race for Senate, Assembly in LD1

June 14, 2019 9:48 amJune 14, 2019 11:14 am

There is no place in New Jersey where Republicans are better situated to pick up legislative seats in the 2019 mid-term elections than in the 1st district, which includes Cape May and parts of Cumberland and Atlantic. In 2017, then-Assemblyman...

Maps: The race for State Assembly in LD25

June 13, 2019 9:41 amJune 13, 2019 3:45 pm

In the 2017 race for State Assembly in New Jersey’s 25th district, Republican incumbents Michael Patrick Carroll (R-Morris Township) and Anthony M. Bucco (R-Boonton) won re-election by an unusually narrow margin in a legislative that hasn’t voted for a Democrat...

Kate Delany elected Collingswood Dem chair

June 11, 2019 8:15 pmJune 11, 2019 8:23 pm

Collingswood Democrats elected Kate Delany as the new municipal chair at their reorganization meeting Monday night, nearly a week after a group of progressive Democrats swept sixteen seats in an off-the-line race for county committee. The Democrats of Camden County...