Donald Payne Jr. Archives - New Jersey Globe

Gill picks up more endorsements in NJ-11 primary, including a former congressman

January 28, 2026 3:09 pm

With just eight days left to go until the February 5 special Democratic primary for the 11th congressional district, two of the race’s frontrunners, Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill (D-Montclair) and former Rep. Tom Malinowski, are continuing to pick up...

D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

December 19, 2025 4:49 pm

Christmastime is here… and Congress left most of its most important problems until after the new year. Four rogue Republicans teamed up with Democrats to force a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years, but House leaders...

McIver leading effort to rename Newark Penn Station after Donald Payne Jr.

December 18, 2025 3:50 pm

The late Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-Newark), who spent close to two decades representing Newark at all levels of government, could find himself memorialized in his home city’s iconic train station. Under a new House bill introduced yesterday by Rep....

Mikie Sherrill is now a former congresswoman as N.J. awaits writ of special election

November 20, 2025 11:59 pmNovember 21, 2025 10:00 am

Mikie Sherrill’s resignation in the U.S. House of Representatives is now effective, leaving New Jersey’s 11th district seat vacant for the first time since Republican Dean A. Gallo (R-Parsippany) died on November 6, 1994. Sherrill filed her resignation letter on...

A brief electoral history of Ras Baraka

May 10, 2025 9:41 pm

If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is elected governor of New Jersey in this year’s election, he’d make a lot of history. He’d be the first Black person elected to lead the state; in fact, no major party in New Jersey...

N.J. missed out on $219 million in federal earmarks under stopgap bill – but are they gone for good?

March 21, 2025 4:40 pmMarch 21, 2025 11:59 pm

When Congress passed a stopgap funding bill last week to keep the government running through September, one casualty was earmarks – billions of dollars of funds that had been requested by members of Congress for local projects in their districts....

McIver seeks to continue Payne’s legacy on fighting peripheral artery disease

January 9, 2025 11:17 am

During his time in Washington, the late Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-Newark) was one of Congress’s chief advocates on an issue that rarely breaks into the mainstream political conversation: Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), a condition that reduces bloodflow to the...