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Booker returns to NJ Senate race, for now

January 13, 2020 8:04 pm

Cory Booker’s exit from the presidential race means the start of new speculation about whether he will be selected as the Democratic candidate for vice president later this summer. New Jersey changed its election law in 2018 to allow Booker...

Arango endorses Meissner for U.S. Senate

November 12, 2019 9:23 am

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Stuart Meissner has won the endorsement of Hudson County GOP Chairman Jose Arango. Meissner, a former deputy attorney general of New York, is one of five candidates already in the race to challenge incumbent Cory Booker...

Parikh departs state government for top Horizon BCBS post

October 24, 2019 8:40 pm

Carrie Parikh is departing her post as Chief Operating Officer of the New Jersey Office of Information Technology and will join Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield as their first Chief Privacy Officer, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Parikh joined...

In race against Booker, Singh raises $177k

October 15, 2019 8:24 pmOctober 15, 2019 8:58 pm

Hirsh Singh has raised $176,732 in his bid for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination but has just $30,738 cash-on-hand. Singh is expected to face incumbent Cory Booker, who is permitted to run for President and re-election to the Senate simultaneously....

Fran Rein, Democratic consultant who ran Kennedy NJ campaign, dies at 75

October 14, 2019 11:29 amOctober 14, 2019 4:02 pm

Fran Rein, one of New Jersey’s top Democratic political operatives in the 1970s and 1980s, died this morning. She was 75. In 1980, Rein became Ted Kennedy’s New Jersey State Director during his bid to wrestle the Democratic presidential nomination...

Mel Carnahan, John Ashcroft — and Anthony M. Bucco

September 25, 2019 2:47 pm

When Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash three weeks before the 2000 General Election, he was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate against incumbent John Ashcroft in a race that pollsters said was too close to...

Early test of new VBM law on Tuesday, when 15 towns hold special school referendum vote

September 23, 2019 9:10 amSeptember 23, 2019 6:10 pm

There are a handful special school referendum elections on September 24 that could offer a glimpse into the effect of New Jersey’s new vote-by-mail law on voter engagement in the 2019 general election. The new law, which puts VBM ballots...