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A look at the 13 legislative districts hosting contested primaries in 2023

March 29, 2023 12:04 pmMarch 29, 2023 12:55 pm

Filing day has come and gone; though petition challenges and write-in candidacies could still shake some things up, we basically know who is running for the New Jersey Legislature this year and who isn’t. A total of 258 candidates filed...

Craig Stanley will run for Giblin’s seat, 15 years after leaving legislature

March 27, 2023 5:09 pmMarch 27, 2023 6:09 pm

Fifteen years after leaving office, former Assemblyman Craig Stanley is gunning for a comeback. The 67-year-old Stanley, a Democrat who represented the Newark-based 28th legislative district between 1996 and 2008, filed today to run for the Assembly in the suburban...

The filing deadline is 17 days away, but primary season is already cooling down

March 10, 2023 4:00 pmMarch 13, 2023 3:13 am

The filing deadline for New Jersey’s 2023 primary is still 17 days away; the primary itself is a full 71 days after that. But thanks in large part to the power of the county line, primary season is already calming...

Big election in Clifton, which will get first new mayor in 32 years

September 21, 2022 6:42 pmSeptember 21, 2022 9:24 pm

Clifton Mayor James Anzaldi has spent more than half of his life in local government, but his decision not to seek re-election means New Jersey’s eleventh-largest municipality – and the home of Rutt’s Hutt — will get its first new...