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Gunaratna will leave Murphy staff to take a top post at national gun safety group

April 13, 2022 10:17 amApril 13, 2022 4:03 pm

Mahen Gunaratna, an architect of Gov. Phil Murphy’s communications strategy to take his messaging directly to New Jerseyans during a global pandemic, is leaving the administration on June 1 to take a top post at one of the nation’s largest...

2020 was a bad year for Woodrow Wilson

February 21, 2022 12:00 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:14 pm

History hit the reset button on Woodrow Wilson in 2020. Ninety-six years after his death, the 13th president of Princeton University, 34th Governor of New Jersey and 28th President of the United States faced a reckoning with what New Jersey’s...

November 20, 2021: George Helmy, chief of staff to Gov. Phil Murphy; Assemblywoman-elect Beth Sawyer; and Passaic County Commissioner John Bartlett

November 20, 2021 5:31 pmNovember 22, 2021 9:34 am

Chief of Staff to the Governor of New Jersey George Helmy, Assemblywoman-elect Beth Sawyer (R-Woolwich) and Passaic County Commissioner John Bartlett joined host David Wildstein to on the New Jersey Globe Power Hour on Talk Radio 77 WABC on Saturday,...

Helmy, Sawyer and Bartlett join Wildstein on NJ Globe Power Hour on 77 WABC

November 20, 2021 12:01 amNovember 20, 2021 5:32 pm

Chief of Staff to the Governor of New Jersey George Helmy, Assemblywoman-elect Beth Sawyer (R-Woolwich) and Passaic County Commissioner John Bartlett will join host David Wildstein to on the New Jersey Globe Power Hour on Talk Radio 77 WABC on...

Helmy is back as Murphy chief of staff

November 5, 2021 12:22 amNovember 5, 2021 1:06 am

George Helmy returned to his post as chief of staff to Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday after an 18-day absence to help get the governor re-elected. Helmy had resigned his post in October, going off the state payroll entirely and...

This week in the gubernatorial race

October 16, 2021 10:57 amOctober 18, 2021 12:29 am

This gubernatorial debate recap is brought to you by the NJEA (kidding) Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli and Gov. Phil Murphy met in Glassboro on Tuesday for the campaign’s final debate. It mostly covered similar ground as the first debate,...

Helmy joining Murphy campaign for final stretch, resigning as chief of staff

October 13, 2021 11:00 amOctober 14, 2021 4:31 pm

George Helmy is resigning as the Gov. Phil Murphy’s chief of staff and will work full-time on the governor’s re-election campaign for the final 18 days, the New Jersey Globe has learned. “Though a final decision has not been made,...