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2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

Matt Arco, dogged statehouse reporter and Christie chronicler, dies at 39

May 1, 2025 3:16 pmMay 2, 2025 9:59 am

Matt Arco – a mainstay of New Jersey political journalism who spent over a decade diligently trailing governors, badgering legislators, and shedding light on the mystifying world of Garden State politics – died yesterday at the age of 39. The news...

2024 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2024 12:14 pmJanuary 3, 2025 10:34 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2024 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version. Do you know what they call a presidential election in New Jersey? The opening act of a gubernatorial campaign....

Assembly Republicans, angry over Murphy giving spotlight to Malinowski, will meet this afternoon to discuss governor’s partisanship

April 27, 2020 2:15 pmApril 27, 2020 7:41 pm

Assembly Republicans are ripping mad over Gov. Phil Murphy’s decision to showcase Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) at his press conference today, will meet remotely later this afternoon to discuss GOP pushback to the governor’s politics and partisanship, the New Jersey...

Star-Ledger changed Murphy story for print edition, but not online

January 7, 2020 11:44 am

The Star-Ledger changed a front page story on Gov. Phil Murphy’s out of state travel for their Monday print edition after one of the governor’s top aides took to Twitter to protest a misleading headline and deceptive information. But the...

Murphy staffer calls Star-Ledger story, headline ‘misleading’

January 5, 2020 4:44 pmJanuary 5, 2020 4:49 pm

A top aide to Gov. Phil Murphy took to social media on Saturday to dispute a Star-Ledger story on the governor’s out-of-state travel, arguing that “the story, especially its title, is quite misleading to readers and uses … artificially inflated...