Latham Tiver Archives - New Jersey Globe

South Jersey leaders promise to fight casinos outside Atlantic City in biting letter

March 27, 2026 4:06 pm

Growing buzz around the potential of casinos outside of Atlantic City has put South Jersey leaders on alert, and on Friday, they signed a strong letter promising to put the kibosh on the idea. In a bipartisan letter to Gov....

Ciattarelli will tap Paulsen as GOP state chairman

June 1, 2025 1:46 pmJune 1, 2025 7:09 pm

Jack Ciattarelli has picked former Burlington County Republican Chairman Glenn Paulsen, a member of his inner circle for nearly a decade, to serve as State GOP Chairman if he wins the Republican primary, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed. Paulsen...

Tiver pledges support for Umba in comeback bid

January 13, 2025 5:35 pmJanuary 14, 2025 1:49 am

State Sen. Latham Tiver (R-Southampton) said he will support former Assemblyman Brandon Umba (R-Medford) as he seeks to regain his 8th district seat from the Democrat who unseated him two years ago. The 8th district could be a four-way rematch...

Murphy to nominate John Hoffman to N.J. Supreme Court

June 8, 2024 11:05 amJune 10, 2024 7:14 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to announce on Monday that he will nominate John Jay Hoffman, a former acting attorney general of New Jersey and the general counsel of Rutgers University for the last eight years, to serve as an...

Mapping out South Jersey Democrats’ great election night

November 30, 2023 6:34 pmDecember 1, 2023 10:45 am

Two years ago, South Jersey Democrats faced a reckoning in the New Jersey Legislature. The far-reaching party organization already had a substantial legislative bloc that included the President of the State Senate and the Majority Leader of the Assembly, and...

Umba will seek rematch with Katz in 2025

November 29, 2023 10:25 amFebruary 23, 2024 3:56 pm

It looks like a rematch in the 8th legislative district, where Assemblyman Brandon Umba (R-Medford) has already announced that he’ll run again in 2025. Umba, a freshman South Jersey lawmaker, told the Star-Ledger that he plans to take on Democrat...

Close Assembly results in suburban districts may augur GOP difficulties in 2025

November 17, 2023 5:35 pmNovember 17, 2023 11:31 pm

New Jersey Assembly Republicans didn’t have a great Election Night this year, losing six of their own seats and failing to make any headway in Democratic-controlled districts. But if they aren’t careful, 2025 could be a whole lot worse. In...