Richard Turner Archives - New Jersey Globe

Turner, council incumbents win re-election unopposed in Weehawken

May 10, 2022 8:01 pm

The New Jersey Globe projects that Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner and his slate of council incumbents – Councilmembers Robert Sosa, Carmela Silvestri-Ehret, Rosemary Lavagnino, and David Curtis – have won re-election unopposed. Turner has been mayor of Weehawken, one of...

Jimenez says she’s gunning for another term

February 28, 2022 4:29 pmFebruary 28, 2022 6:47 pm

Assemblywoman Angelica Jimenez (D-West New York), whose seat in the legislature may be threatened by redistricting-related maneuverings, said today that she intends on seeking another term in 2023. “I still have a year and a half to go [in this...

Sacco will retire from State Senate, plans to endorse Stack for re-election

February 24, 2022 8:53 am

Nicholas Sacco will not seek re-election to the New Jersey State Senate in 2023, ending a 30-year stint in Trenton and clearing the path for Brian P. Stack to keep his Senate seat after the hometowns of the two Hudson...

A look ahead at May’s municipal elections

January 21, 2022 5:37 pmFebruary 1, 2022 10:14 am

It’s always election season in New Jersey. This May, voters in many of New Jersey’s biggest municipalities, as well as some of its smallest, will hold municipal elections to determine who will lead their towns for the next four years....

VBM turnout very light in Hudson

May 8, 2020 4:14 pm

Vote-by-mail ballots are coming in slowly in Hudson County, where Democratic party leaders have said voters prefer to go to the polls to cast their votes. Hudson has no real contests in next all-VBM elections, where school board candidates in...

Weekhawen official dies of coronavirus

April 4, 2020 6:19 pmApril 4, 2020 10:33 pm

Richard Barsa, the Weehawken school board president, died this morning of an illness related to COVID-19. He was 65. Barsa was also the Weehawken finance director. He was elected to the Board of Education in 1991 and has served as...

Fulop reenters the fold

March 11, 2019 9:47 pmMarch 11, 2019 9:55 pm

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop appears to have mended fences with other Hudson County Democrats. Fulop, who fell out of favor with Democrats on both sides of last year’s warette in Hudson County following the end of the same, appeared...