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Delgado-Polanco running for delegate on Sanders ticket

March 31, 2020 1:22 am

A controversial former Murphy administration official is mounting a political comeback as a candidate for delegate to the Democratic National Convention pledged to Bernie Sanders. Lizette Delgado-Polanco, forced to resign last year her state job and party post in a...

Correa likely to succeed Blackman in Dover

January 1, 2020 11:53 amJanuary 1, 2020 1:23 pm

Dover Democratic Municipal Chairman Edward Correa, the principal architect of a complete change of control of local government in Dover, is expected to fill the alderman seat left vacant by election of Carolyn Blackman as mayor. Blackman will take office...

Armstead contribution to independent candidate leads to call for resignation

October 23, 2019 7:55 pmOctober 24, 2019 2:38 pm

Update: Councilman Brown contacted the New Jersey Globe to say that reports that he worked in the Dover Tax Assessor’s Office were untrue and threatened litigation if the reference was not removed from the story. The Globe called the Tax...

Dover mayor accused of politicizing Colombia Festival

August 8, 2019 6:07 pm

A group of Dover residents that include the leaders of the local Democratic organization are asking the state Attorney General to investigate whether Mayor James P. Dodd used a taxpayer-funded Colombian Festival to pitch voters for his re-election campaign. Critics...

Dover settles issue on candidate name

April 11, 2019 11:48 am

Dover municipal clerk Tara Pettoni has reversed her decision to drop a candidate from June primary ballot because he didn’t use his full legal name. In a settlement reached between the clerk and the alderman candidate, Marcos Tapia, will be...

Dover clerk tosses candidate for not using complete legal name

April 11, 2019 10:41 amApril 11, 2019 11:10 am

The Dover municipal clerk has tossed a candidate for alderman from the ballot because he didn’t use his full, legal name, leaving no candidate for the post in the June primary. Tara Pettoni had originally certified the nominating petition of...

Judge orders bi-lingual ballots in Dover

April 9, 2019 12:14 pmApril 10, 2019 3:36 pm

A Superior Court Judge today ordered Morris County Clerk Ann Grossi to print vote-by-mail and machine ballots in both English and Spanish in Dover, one of thirteen New Jersey municipalities with a Hispanic majority. Grossi refused to provide Dover, which...