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Carstarphen: Dissecting the next four years for urban America

November 15, 2024 1:58 pmNovember 15, 2024 3:57 pm

OPINION Camden is a city of neighborhoods, built on the backs of the most resilient residents in the nation. As the results from the general election sink in and creep further behind us, I am now looking into the future...

George Norcross testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Economic Growth Strategies. Photo by Nikita Biryukov for the New Jersey Globe.

Norcross defends tax incentives, attacks task force in first public testimony

November 18, 2019 4:10 pmNovember 18, 2019 4:50 pm

Democratic powerbroker George Norcross sought to impugn the credibility of the task force investigating New Jersey’s tax incentive in testimony before a Senate committee today while defending his role as a champion of Camden’s resurgence. Norcross told senators that tax...

Activists want George Norcross to resign

October 10, 2019 9:21 amOctober 10, 2019 12:37 pm

A group of activists who have long opposed George Norcross will call for the powerbroker to resign from his post at Cooper University Health System Thursday. Cooper continues to be a central point in a tax incentives lawsuit targeting four...

Report: Norcross pushed non-profit off prime Camden real estate

October 3, 2019 7:24 pmOctober 4, 2019 10:59 am

Editor’s Note: This story was updated with comment from Sue Altman at 10:59 a.m. Democratic powerbroker George Norcross pushed a non-profit out of prime real estate holdings in Camden, according to a cooperative WNYC and ProPublica report. In 2013, Cooper’s...