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Davis allies win Bayonne school board seats

November 12, 2019 2:29 pm

Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis added two seats to his control of the local school board when counts of provisional and late vote-by-mail ballots Two allies of Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis have won seats on the city’s Board of Education, defeating...

State Sen. Sandra Cunningham (D-Jersey City). Photo by Kevin Sanders for the New Jersey Globe.

Cunningham unsure if Franco has earned second chance

October 24, 2019 1:35 pm

State Sen. Sandra Cunningham said she believes people deserve second chances, but she isn’t sure whether a Bayonne Council candidate who was convicted of having sex with a child has earned one. “It’s a difficult one. I stand by my...

Senator Joe Lagana to join Cleary Giacobbe law firm

September 11, 2019 10:55 amSeptember 11, 2019 2:39 pm

State Sen. Joseph Lagana (D-Paramus) and two other partners are leaving Chasen Lamparello Mallon & Cappuzzo to join another law firm, Cleary Giacobbe Alfieri Jacobs. Lagana, a Bergen County senator widely viewed as a rising star in state politics, will...

Sacco campaign launch draws crowd of 1,000

March 11, 2019 9:54 pmMarch 12, 2019 9:14 am

Mayor Nicholas Sacco’s re-election campaign kickoff drew some of the state’s top Democrats and a crowd of more than 1,000 to North Bergen Monday night. “We believe that you don’t make economic progress without social progress. You don’t make social...

Fulop reenters the fold

March 11, 2019 9:47 pmMarch 11, 2019 9:55 pm

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop appears to have mended fences with other Hudson County Democrats. Fulop, who fell out of favor with Democrats on both sides of last year’s warette in Hudson County following the end of the same, appeared...

Carroll is front-runner to replace Cotter in Bayonne

November 13, 2018 3:38 pm

Tom Cotter has resigned his seat on the Bayonne city council to become the new Department of Public Works. The city council will name a replacement for Cotter’s first ward seat, followed by a November 2019 special election to fill...

With election days away, Murphy stumps in Hudson

November 2, 2018 6:41 pmNovember 3, 2018 1:37 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was in Hudson County on Friday to shore up the Democratic stronghold ahead of Tuesday’s election. Murphy, after making a governmental stop at a school opening in Secaucus, spent much of the late afternoon walking the streets...