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Durr bill requires drunk drivers who kill parents to support their children

May 17, 2022 12:26 pm

Courts would be mandated to order financial support for children whose parents are killed by a drunk driver under legislation introduced by State Sen. Edward Durr (R-Swedesboro). Durr’s bill requires financial support for minors until they turn 18 for anyone...

Sweeney schedules Senate campaign fundraiser for March

January 31, 2022 12:04 pmJanuary 31, 2022 1:52 pm

Steve Sweeney’s Senate campaign committee is holding a high-dollar fundraiser in March, an event that will only fuel speculation that the former Senate President might seek to regain the seat he lost last November to Republican Edward R. Durr. The...

Sweeney dumped from Democratic legislative redistricting commission

January 26, 2022 9:15 amJanuary 27, 2022 9:49 am

Senate President Steve Sweeney has been tossed from the redistricting commission that is redrawing New Jersey’s legislative districts by Democratic State Chairman LeRoy Jones, Jr. Jones filed a letter with New Jersey Acting Secretary of State Tahesha Way on Wednesday...

Durr, armed with senatorial courtesy, set to interview Murphy cabinet nominee

January 25, 2022 4:45 pmJanuary 25, 2022 4:45 pm

For Victoria Kuhn to win Senate confirmation as the state corrections commissioner, she must first receive signoff from State Sen. Edward R. Durr (R-Swedesboro), who now has senatorial courtesy over all gubernatorial nominations from Gloucester County. Durr will interview Kuhn...

Hogan still mulling re-election bid in Gloucester

January 21, 2022 3:41 pmMarch 1, 2022 12:04 pm

A legendary Gloucester County official says he will decide within the next three to four weeks if he will seek re-election to a sixth term this year. There has been speculation that Democratic County Clerk James N. Hogan, 80, is...

Murphy nominates Kuhn as corrections commissioner

January 13, 2022 12:49 pm

Eight months after Commissioner of Corrections Marcus Hicks was forced to resign after an independent report found lapses in his management of the state’s only women’s prison, Gov. Phil Murphy has nominated Victoria Kuhn, Hicks’s former chief of staff, to...

Johnson, Zwicker get Budget & Appropriations Committee seats

January 12, 2022 4:04 pmJanuary 12, 2022 4:55 pm

Two freshman state senators, Gordon Johnson (D-Englewood) and Andrew Zwicker (D-South Brunswick), have secured seats on the influential Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee. Paul Sarlo (D-Wood-Ridge) continues as the longest-serving Budget and Appropriations chairman in state history; he’s held that...