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Joe Egan’s IBEW Local 456 endorses Steve Sweeney

March 13, 2025 12:42 pm

The politically potent International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 456 has endorsed Steve Sweeney for the Democratic nomination for governor, giving the former Senate President the backing of a union that comes with boots on the ground and money in...

Despite lots of turnover, new legislature will be demographically similar to current one

November 8, 2023 5:29 pm

One of the dominant themes of this year’s New Jersey legislative elections was turnover. Thanks to a large number of retirements and defeats, there will be a whopping 29 new faces joining the legislature in January, plus another seven current...

Zwicker, Freiman, Drulis win, keeping 16th district Democratic after tough campaign

November 7, 2023 10:19 pmNovember 8, 2023 12:48 am

The 16th district has remained in Democratic hands, with State Sen. Andrew Zwicker (D-South Brunswick) and Assemblyman Roy Freiman (D-Hillsborough) winning re-election and Mitchelle Drulis claiming her first term in the Assembly, the New Jersey Globe projects. Republicans mounted a...

Middlesex Dems hold three core legislative districts, with wins by Smith, Diegnan, Vitale, Coughlin

November 7, 2023 9:55 pmNovember 7, 2023 9:55 pm

Three Middlesex County-based legislative districts – the 17th, 18th, and 19th – have elected all-Democratic legislative delegations, the New Jersey Globe projects, with Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin (D-Woodbridge) among the winners. In the overwhelmingly Democratic 17th district, which is centered...

With 2023 legislative elections fast approaching, who isn’t running for re-election?

January 5, 2023 1:08 pmJanuary 5, 2023 11:23 pm

On Tuesday, State Sen. Christopher Connors (R-Lacey) announced that he won’t seek re-election to the State Senate this year, bringing a three-decade career in the legislature to an end. He joins a small but growing cohort of state legislators who...

Egan says he intends to run for re-election to Assembly

December 8, 2022 2:22 pm

The oldest member of the New Jersey State Assembly is ready for two more years. Assemblyman Joe Egan (D-New Brunswick), who has represented parts of Middlesex and Somerset Counties since 2002, said today that he intends to run for re-election...

SCOTUS case on Mississippi abortion restrictions hasn’t gotten the Reproductive Freedom Act moving

May 19, 2021 5:08 pmMay 19, 2021 5:27 pm

News of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case concerning abortion restrictions in New Jersey have redoubled activists’ efforts to get the Reproductive Freedom Act moving, but sentiment in the legislature is unchanged, sources in the legislature...