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Springfield GOP candidate faces calls to drop out after offensive Facebook posts discovered

October 8, 2021 3:56 pm

Union County Democrats are calling for Jorge Aparicio, one of two Republican nominees for Springfield Township Committee, to drop out after a slew of sexist and terroristic Facebook posts from this spring and summer were uncovered. Among the posts Democrats...

FEMA issues major disaster declarations for Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Union Counties

September 10, 2021 1:37 pmSeptember 10, 2021 3:07 pm

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued Ida-related major disaster declarations in four more counties – Essex, Hudson, Mercer, and Union – bringing the total number of New Jersey counties included up to 10. “We just received a [FEMA]...

LaVecchia postpones retirement as Senate stalls on Murphy Supreme Court pick

July 28, 2021 1:35 pmJuly 28, 2021 2:21 pm

New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Jaynee LaVecchia has agreed to postpone her retirement date for a few months after the State Senate recessed until after the November general election without approving her replacement, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said on Wednesday....

Murphy not worried about backup on Senate confirmations

July 19, 2021 5:06 pmJuly 19, 2021 5:26 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy is not overly concerned about 127 nominations being backlogged, just before the November election. “I think we’ve made a lot of good progress particularly over the past six to 12 months,” he said at his weekly press...

More than 100 nominees await confirmation to state posts with little hope of votes before November

July 16, 2021 3:50 pm

More than 100 nominees to a slew of state boards, commissions, authorities and other panels are awaiting confirmation that won’t come until after November’s general election, and an overwhelming majority will likely wait far longer. The nominees themselves range widely...

Stanfield wants Kuhn to come before Senate

July 8, 2021 6:04 pmJuly 9, 2021 9:48 am

After Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks was forced out of his position over violent cell extractions conducted in the dead of night at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, Victoria Kuhn, his chief of staff, took helm of the agency. But her...

Heading into re-election, nearly a third of Murphy’s cabinet is unconfirmed or departing

July 8, 2021 1:04 pmJuly 17, 2021 6:31 pm

Nearly a third of Gov. Phil Murphy’s cabinet members intend to leave the administration or are in their positions on an acting basis, with some awaiting confirmation and others awaiting the nomination of a permanent agency head. Press play to...