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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...

Ernest Coursey, four-term Atlantic county commissioner, dies at 62

August 5, 2025 9:26 amAugust 5, 2025 12:11 pm

Veteran Atlantic County Commissioner Ernest D. Coursey, Sr., who announced earlier this year that he would not seek re-election to a fifth term because of health issues, died early this morning. He was 62. Gov. Phil Murphy said he and...

Atlantic City councilman switches parties, will run for county commissioner as a Republican

January 10, 2025 9:48 amJanuary 11, 2025 7:19 pm

Atlantic City Councilman-at-Large George Tibbit will switch parties and run as a Republican against Ernest Coursey, the longtime Atlantic County Commissioner. The 1st district county commissioner seat leans Democratic, but it became more competitive during redistricting after a Democratic map...

Fulop adds six more Assembly candidates

November 15, 2024 8:00 amNovember 15, 2024 3:57 pm

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop has accelerated his 21-county strategy to recruit State Assembly candidates who support his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor next year, adding six new candidates today and bringing his total so far to twenty....

Andy Kim trounces Tammy Murphy at Atlantic County convention

March 17, 2024 5:33 pmMarch 18, 2024 8:01 am

Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) defeated First Lady Tammy Murphy at today’s Atlantic County Democratic convention, giving him yet another open convention win in the race for indicted Senator Bob Menendez’s Senate seat. Kim received 156 votes to Murphy’s 54, a...

County convention season (mostly) comes to an end this weekend

March 14, 2024 12:20 pmMarch 14, 2024 7:47 pm

After more than a month of hopping from county to county, meeting thousands of county committeemembers and learning each county Democratic organization’s obscure convention rules, Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) and First Lady Tammy Murphy will soon finally be free. The...

Atlantic Dems will run Pleasantville councilwoman for redrawn commissioner seat

March 13, 2024 10:56 am

Pleasantville City Councilwoman Joanne Famularo will run for Atlantic County Commissioner this year, giving Democrats an established candidate against Commissioner Director Maureen Kern (R-Somers Point) in a district that was recently redrawn to be more favorable to their party. For...