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Six file to replace McIver in Newark’s Central Ward

August 21, 2025 10:37 pmAugust 22, 2025 9:05 am

Six candidates have filed to run in a non-partisan November special election to fill the Newark Central Ward city council seat left vacant last fall when Democrat LaMonica McIver resigned to take her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives....

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...

A brief electoral history of Ras Baraka

April 25, 2024 1:22 pmJuly 25, 2024 2:26 pm

If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is elected governor of New Jersey in next 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...

Marie Villani, Newark city councilwoman for 20 years, dies at 100

July 17, 2021 10:26 pmJuly 19, 2021 9:39 am

HMarie L. Villani, a six-term Newark City Councilwoman and the first woman to win a citywide election in the state’s largest city, died on July 13. She turned 100 on July 4. Villani was appointed to fill an at-large city...

Garfield School Board member dies during re-election bid

April 24, 2020 12:00 amApril 24, 2020 3:53 pm

Dr. Kenneth Conte, who is seeking re-election to the Garfield Board of Education in the May 12 election, has died. He had been battling coronavirus at Hackensack University Medical Center at the time of his passing. He was 75. Conte...

David Rothschild, 94, was Eugene McCarthy delegate in NJ

March 2, 2019 4:48 pm

David Rothschild, a former Millburn Democratic municipal chairman and a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention pledged to Eugene McCarthy, died on March 1. He was 94. McCarthy won nineteen district delegate seats in New Jersey in the June...

Judge orders replacement candidate GOP never officially picked

October 14, 2018 11:54 pm

It’s possible that Judge Robert Wilson screwed up in his ruling Friday that allowed North Arlington Republicans to replace their candidate for mayor after the incumbent, Joseph Bianchi, passed away last week. Wilson ordered the removal of Bianchi’s name from...