The decision of Democrats to dump Steve Sweeney, the former Senate President, from his seat on the Legislative Apportionment Commission, has led to speculation – so far unfounded, that South Jersey will retaliate through diminished cooperation with the Gov. Phil...
Arline M. Friscia, who served eight years as a New Jersey assemblywoman where she sponsored a law top expand the state’s family leave law, died on Wednesday. She was 84. In 1995, Friscia unseated Republican incumbents who had captured Middlesex...
A group of politically-active black ministers on Thursday arrayed to back Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposal for a tax of the state’s millionaires, promising to consequences on legislators who don’t end up backing the policy. “We ask that the legislature cooperate...
Clinton mayor Janice Kovach, the secretary of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee since 2007, is seeking re-election to a third term as mayor. She will run with councilman Michael Humphrey, who ousted incumbent Marty Pendergast in a 2018 special...
Robert James D’Anton, a Democratic fundraiser with ties to Ocean County Republican Chairman George Gilmore, has been nominated by Gov. Phil Murphy for another term on the New Jersey Lottery Commission. Gilmore was indicted last week on federal tax evasion...
The new chairman of the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee is Assemblyman Eric Houghtaling (D-Neptune). Speaker Craig Coughlin announced Houghtaling’s appointment today. He will replace Bob Andrzejczak (D-Dennis), who resigned from the Assembly yesterday to take his seat in...
If Bob Andrzejczak (D-Middle) leaves the Assembly in January to take Jeff Van Drew’s Senate seat, as expected, it will open the chairmanship of the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. The selection of a new chairman will be up...