Brandon Umba Archives - New Jersey Globe

Gopal is new chair of AAPI Legislative Caucus

April 27, 2023 1:00 pm

State Sen. Vin Gopal (D-Long Branch) announced today that he will assume the chairmanship of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus, a coalition of seven Asian American state senators and assemblymembers serving in the New Jersey Legislature. He’ll take...

Elections Transparency Act clears committee, probably for the final time

March 23, 2023 5:01 pmMarch 24, 2023 11:15 am

After more than a month of intense debate, and nearly a year after it was first introduced, the so-called “Elections Transparency Act” cleared the Assembly Appropriations Committee today in what may be its final committee vote before it passes the...

Umba lauds DOE’s tutoring plan but calls it overdue

December 2, 2022 10:52 am

Following an announcement from Gov. Phil Murphy yesterday launching the New Jersey Partnership for Student Success (NJPSS), a program designed to remediate learning loss incurred during Covid, Assemblyman Brandon Umba (R-Medford) released a statement today praising the program while also...

Umba: It’s time to open up the school funding formula

April 6, 2022 4:08 pm

OPINION Budget season has started in New Jersey, and we shouldn’t let it go by without making school funding front and center to the conversation. There are far too many school districts losing money year-over-year, issues with special education funding...

Faced with redrawn seats, incumbents have reserved reactions

February 15, 2022 11:58 amFebruary 15, 2022 9:04 pm

Following the release of two draft legislative maps last week, New Jersey’s 120 legislators have all had the opportunity to review how their own districts would change under each proposal – and for around two dozen of them, the future...

Initial legislative map proposals leave some incumbents behind

February 8, 2022 5:22 pmFebruary 8, 2022 7:14 pm

Whenever a new political redistricting process begins, one of the most frustrating things to account for is where incumbent legislators already live. Those tasked with redistricting want to draw as logical a map as possible, but they also frequently have...

Democrats really want to win back the 8th legislative district

February 7, 2022 6:26 pm

For the most part, the Democratic commissioners on the Legislative Apportionment Commission elected to draw a map of least change in their initial proposal released today, shifting towns here and there to balance populations and appease incumbents. But in Burlington...