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Burlington Dems back caretaker plan to replace Conaway in Assembly

November 22, 2024 10:02 amNovember 22, 2024 1:16 pm

Burlington County Democrats will pick a short-term caretaker to fill a State Assembly vacancy that will occur on or about January 3 when Herb Conaway, Jr. (D-Delran) takes his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Daniel J. O’Connell, a...

Stack open to hearing on why Camden woman never accepted judgeship

November 18, 2024 12:29 pmNovember 18, 2024 4:13 pm

Several members of the state Senate’s Judiciary Committee have expressed frustration with Superior Court appointee Jill Mayer, who will reportedly not take the oath of office nearly three years after the Senate confirmed her. A three-year dispute over whether Mayer...

Former Burlington City mayor running longshot campaign for governor

August 19, 2024 1:53 pmAugust 20, 2024 12:01 am

Jim Fazzone, the former mayor of Burlington City who lost a state Senate election last year, is seeking the GOP nomination for governor with a small campaign that hasn’t yet garnered much attention. Fazzone appears to have launched his campaign...

Murphy to nominate John Hoffman to N.J. Supreme Court

June 8, 2024 11:05 amJune 10, 2024 7:14 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to announce on Monday that he will nominate John Jay Hoffman, a former acting attorney general of New Jersey and the general counsel of Rutgers University for the last eight years, to serve as an...

Thirteen takeaways on Murphy’s exit, Kim’s ascendance, and the future of N.J. politics

March 25, 2024 3:57 pmMarch 25, 2024 11:00 pm

On September 23, 2023, the day after three-term Democratic Senator Bob Menendez was indicted on federal corruption charges, Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) entered the race for U.S. Senate, promising to run as a reformer and be a different type of...

Legislative leaders say they’re open to looking at ballot design reforms

March 19, 2024 7:43 pmMarch 20, 2024 1:08 pm

As a federal judge deliberates on a lawsuit seeking to abolish the county organizational line, the top Democrats and Republicans in the New Jersey Legislature are saying that ballot design debates should be handled by the legislature – and that...

The convention that could make or break the N.J. Senate race is here

March 4, 2024 1:19 amMarch 4, 2024 9:46 am

Parts of this story were originally published on February 29; they have been edited and republished here. The cliché in politics is that this year – every year – is the most important election of our lifetimes. Well, this weekend...