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2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

Catherine Costa, former N.J. senator, dies at 99

June 27, 2025 7:42 pmJune 29, 2025 9:34 am

Catherine A. Costa, a Democrat who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature in the 1980s and was the first woman to serve on the Burlington County Board of Freeholders, died today. She was 99. The Brooklyn-born lawmaker...

N.J. hasn’t held a non-November special election for Congress in 74 years

April 25, 2024 2:54 pmApril 29, 2024 9:25 am

New Jersey hasn’t had a free-standing special election for Congress since 1950, following the resignation of seven-term Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R-Allendale), the former chairman of the House Committee Un-American Activities; Thomas resigned his seat in December 1949, after being...

Van Drew votes against ERA ratification extension after supporting, co-sponsoring it last year

March 17, 2021 9:08 pmMarch 18, 2021 1:14 am

Thirteen months after voting to remove the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment – a measure he co-sponsored — Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) voted against it today. Van Drew was one of five Republicans to support the measure...

It’s 8 PM and the polls are supposed to be closing

June 2, 2020 8:00 pmJune 3, 2020 12:01 am

It’s 8 PM and I’m supposed to say that the polls are now closed in New Jersey, even in Cedar Grove. The primary election was supposed to be today, but in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus,...

John Rocco, former assemblyman, dies at 83

April 8, 2020 4:14 pmApril 8, 2020 7:32 pm

John A. Rocco, a former nine-term Republican assemblyman from Camden County who seconded Ronald Reagan’s nomination at the 1980 Republican National Convention, died today. He was 83. He had been in the hospital for heart-related issues, but the cause of...

Van Drew breaks with GOP, supports lifting of ERA ratification deadline

February 13, 2020 11:22 amMarch 17, 2021 8:55 pm

Party-switching Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) voted with House Democrats today to remove the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, becoming just one of five Republicans to support the bill. While still a Democrat, Van Drew became a co-sponsor...