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Trenton at-large runoff coming on Tuesday

January 20, 2023 2:57 pm

Two and a half months after Trenton voters first went to the polls in November 2022, the city’s local elections may finally come to an end next Tuesday, when a runoff is scheduled for three at-large seats on the Trenton...

Trenton North Ward race exactly tied with most outstanding ballots counted

December 20, 2022 1:47 pmDecember 20, 2022 2:33 pm

The race for the Trenton City Council’s North Ward is exactly tied with provisional and late-arriving absentee ballots now counted; Jennifer Williams and Algernon Ward each have 425 votes. In the initial tally, Williams was ahead by 11 votes, 401...

A preview of N.J.’s December 13 runoffs in Trenton, Perth Amboy, and Manchester

December 7, 2022 1:24 pmDecember 12, 2022 10:07 am

U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) may have won the nation’s most important runoff election yesterday, but the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-most important are all still to come – and they’re all in New Jersey. Next Tuesday, December 13, voters in...

Oliver signs executive order delaying local runoffs to December 13

November 18, 2022 7:06 pmNovember 19, 2022 12:48 pm

With votes still being counted in Trenton local races thanks to an Election Day voting machine glitch in Mercer County, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver signed an executive order today pushing back the runoff date by a week, from December 6...

Gusciora leads big in Trenton; many council seats up in the air

November 9, 2022 12:08 pm

Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora has a huge lead in his bid for a second term, putting him in a dominant position against two of his longtime foes, Council President Kathy McBride and Councilwoman Robin Vaughn, in the city’s nonpartisan election....

Lots at stake in Trenton local races after years of rancor

September 30, 2022 5:16 pmNovember 1, 2022 1:23 pm

It’s been a rough few years for local government in New Jersey’s capital city. Ever since Mayor Reed Gusciora took office in 2018, relations between the mayor’s office, the city council, and various arms of the city bureaucracy have steadily...

Vaughn apologizes, won’t resign

May 6, 2020 10:02 pmMay 6, 2020 10:06 pm

Embattled Trenton Councilwoman Robin Vaughn apologized for a series of profanities and homophobic statements on a call with city lawmakers that has pushed top Democrats in the state to call for her resignation Wednesday, but she doesn’t intend to resign....