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Green Party gets new gubernatorial candidate

August 21, 2025 6:30 pmAugust 22, 2025 2:50 am

Lily Benavides, a former New Hampshire state legislator and an immigrant from Colombia, has filed 2,434 signatures to become the Green Party candidate for governor of New Jersey on the general election ballot, replacing Stephen N. Zielinski, Sr.. Citing a...

A look at every major proposed gun bill in the N.J. legislature

May 31, 2022 4:34 pmMay 31, 2022 6:16 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy made an unusual demand last week: that every prominent gun-related bill proposed in the New Jersey legislature – Republican or Democratic, increasing gun restrictions or loosening them – be put to a full vote. With two major...

Faced with redrawn seats, incumbents have reserved reactions

February 15, 2022 11:58 amFebruary 15, 2022 9:04 pm

Following the release of two draft legislative maps last week, New Jersey’s 120 legislators have all had the opportunity to review how their own districts would change under each proposal – and for around two dozen of them, the future...

Battle over Murphy budget address headlines new legislature’s first full day

February 14, 2022 4:55 pm

After weeks of committee hearings and one brief Senate session, the 220th New Jersey State Legislature held its first full legislative voting session today, headlined by a seemingly straightforward bill that nevertheless drew significant opposition from Republican lawmakers: whether to...

Initial legislative map proposals leave some incumbents behind

February 8, 2022 5:22 pmFebruary 8, 2022 7:14 pm

Whenever a new political redistricting process begins, one of the most frustrating things to account for is where incumbent legislators already live. Those tasked with redistricting want to draw as logical a map as possible, but they also frequently have...

There’s no such thing as a perfect legislative map

January 14, 2022 2:26 pm

Last Saturday, Legislative Apportionment Commission tiebreaker Philip Carchman released an eight-page document outlining his requirements for the state’s next legislative map and laying out a series of standards he hopes the redrawn districts will fulfill. Among those standards are compactness,...

Thompson, Clifton, Dancer win in the 12th district

November 2, 2021 8:01 pmDecember 17, 2021 2:33 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that State Sen. Samuel Thompson (R-Old Bridge), Assemblyman Robert Clifton (R-Matawan), and Assemblyman Ronald Dancer (R-Plumsted) have won re-election to the 12th legislative district. Thompson beat out Democratic Matawan mayor Joseph Altomonte, and the...