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Buster Soaries to retire

July 28, 2019 9:10 pmJuly 28, 2019 9:15 pm

Rev. DeForest “Buster” Soaries, a former New Jersey Secretary of State and congressional candidate, announced today that he will retire from his position as Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Franklin. Soaries, 67, has led...

Monroe may be only big NJ Dem town that has become more Republican

March 17, 2019 2:37 pmMarch 18, 2019 12:06 am

The 2019 mayoral election is worth watching since Monroe (pop. 39,132) is perhaps the only large municipality in the state that is trending away from being a Democratic stronghold toward the GOP. Democrats have controlled Monroe Township in Middlesex County...

Booker for President speculation is 20 years old

February 1, 2019 6:58 amFebruary 1, 2019 2:46 am

Cory Booker’s fledgling presidential campaign comes two decades after New Jersey political insiders first predicted that he would someday run for president of the United States. Booker, 49, is the first African American to win statewide office in New Jersey. ...

Trailblazer: Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman

January 21, 2019 12:04 amJanuary 21, 2019 9:28 am

Bonnie Watson Coleman, 73, was the first African American woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first African American to serve as New Jersey Democratic State Chair. Watson Coleman came from a powerful political...

Trailblazer: Cory Booker

January 21, 2019 12:01 amJanuary 21, 2019 2:34 am

Cory Booker, 49, is the first African American to win statewide office in New Jersey. He was elected to the United States Senate in 2013, winning a special election to replace the late Frank R. Lautenberg. Booker is expected to...

Watson Coleman wins

November 6, 2018 8:16 pmNovember 7, 2018 4:05 am

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman won win reelection and serve a third term in Congress. She defeated Republican Daryl Kipnis, an attorney residing in Franklin Township by 36 points, 68% to 32%. Watson Coleman got 145,274 votes to Kipnis’s 67,389. Watson...

The Carpetbagger

October 18, 2018 10:43 pmOctober 19, 2018 8:57 pm

Since Leonard Lance called Tom Malinowski a carpetbagger in last night’s debate – an unfair allegation, since Malinowski grew up in a town next door to the current boundaries of district – here’s a great story about carpetbagging that comes...