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Murphy to name three new Port Authority commissioners, O’Toole to remain chairman

April 14, 2021 1:50 pmApril 17, 2021 1:01 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy will nominate three new commissioners to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as part of a deal that allows Kevin O’Toole to remain as chairman of the powerful bi-state agency. Murphy will end a...

Sires has $231k banked

April 11, 2021 1:32 pm

Rep. Albio Sires (D-West New York) raised $59,220 during the first three months of this year and now has $231,616 cash-on-hand as he prepares to seek re-election to a 10th term in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022. His...

Menendez endorses Joshi for Edison mayor

April 8, 2021 12:17 pmApril 8, 2021 2:51 pm

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez had endorsed Sam Joshi for the Democratic nomination for mayor of Edison, New Jersey’s fifth-largest municipality. “I am proud to be endorsing Sam Joshi in the Edison mayoral primary,” said Menendez, the state’s...

Biden set to name Neals, Quraishi to federal judgeships

March 30, 2021 1:07 am

President Joe Biden is expected to nominate two U.S. District Court Judges for New Jersey on Tuesday, the New Jersey Globe has learned, including a one whose previous appointment was squashed by Mitch McConnell and other who will become the...

Fred Turner, Menendez chief of staff, joins D.C. lobbying firm

March 24, 2021 11:42 pm

Bob Menendez’s chief of staff is leaving to join a Washington lobbying firm. Fred Turner, Menendez’s top Capitol Hill aide for the last seven years, is joining BGR Group, a Washington firm founded by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. He’ll...

Menendez, Booker announce nearly $17 million in FEMA grants

March 24, 2021 10:46 am

U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-North Bergen) and Cory Booker (D-Newark) announced nearly $17 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency grants that’ll aid the state Department of Health and the Shore Memorial Hospital Wednesday. “Even though it appears we’ve turned the...

Menendez bill looks to technology to fight maternal mortality

March 23, 2021 2:59 pm

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-North Bergen) introduced a bill that would inject new technologies into the fight against maternal mortality. The bipartisan bill, sponsored also by U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), would require the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation...