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2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

Murphy launches final nominations push as time dwindles

December 12, 2025 1:05 pmJanuary 29, 2026 4:10 pm

On Monday, the state Senate’s Judiciary Committee will meet and conduct its part of a time-honored tradition: the last-minute slew of nominations from an outgoing governor. Governors-elect, hoping to keep open as many options as possible, resent the notion that...

Steve Sweeney set to become Gloucester County administrator

December 7, 2025 5:05 pmDecember 8, 2025 12:00 pm

Former Senate President Steve Sweeney is expected to become the new Gloucester County Administrator, a job that pays $274,121, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed. The post was vacated on November 30 when his staunch ally, Gloucester County Democratic Chairman...

Brian Varela earns surprise endorsement from Steve Sweeney

November 19, 2025 9:30 amNovember 19, 2025 9:36 am

Democrat Brian Varela’s campaign for New Jersey’s 7th congressional district has been picking up local endorsements for months, but today he got an unexpected endorsement from further afield: that of former State Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford). The two...

Here’s how New Jersey’s congressional and legislative districts voted in the Democratic primary for governor

July 10, 2025 10:55 am

What might this year’s Democratic gubernatorial primary tell us about future primaries for Congress and the State Legislature in New Jersey? That’s an incredibly thorny question to answer – but if one wants to attempt to do it, data on...

For Democratic primary voters, Mikie Sherrill was the consensus candidate

June 27, 2025 7:23 pmJune 30, 2025 12:11 am

When the county organizational line was struck down last year, everyone in New Jersey wanted to know: how would it affect the 2025 gubernatorial election? Were all the rules about New Jersey primaries, in which county political parties have typically...

Mapping the 2025 Hudson County war

June 20, 2025 1:29 pmJune 20, 2025 1:36 pm

Democrats in Hudson County are, to put it mildly, a fractious bunch. Not an election goes by where the local county Democratic organization isn’t consumed by infighting over a congressional seat, or a mayoralty, or a county government job, although...