Vin Gopal Archives - New Jersey Globe

Gopal calls on Health Department to create baby formula tracking system

May 20, 2022 4:13 pmMay 23, 2022 1:03 am

State Sen. Vin Gopal (D-Long Branch), responding to the ongoing national shortage of baby formula, wrote a letter to Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli this morning urging the Department of Health to create a system to track the state’s formula supply...

Assembly committee passes sex ed transparency bill after hours of dissent

May 19, 2022 4:34 pmMay 19, 2022 4:34 pm

Just as happened in the equivalent Senate committee last week, the Assembly Education Committee today cleared a bill to increase transparency in sex education curricula following a lengthy and often off-topic debate over statewide learning standards. The bill passed 4-3,...

GOP makes it clear their top target is Gopal

May 10, 2022 4:48 pm

Vin Gopal is the top Republican target in next year’s mid-term legislative elections and the GOP has already begun their campaign to unseat him in the politically competitive 11th district. Eighteen months before the next election, Senate Republicans are targeting...

Legislation to increase sex ed transparency prompts lengthy debate on state educational standards

May 9, 2022 5:16 pmMay 10, 2022 8:51 am

A Senate Education Committee hearing on a bill to expand transparency in New Jersey’s sex education program exploded today into a wide-ranging debate over the state’s entire educational curriculum, with a large number of parents and conservative activists registering their...

Bill requiring menstrual products in school bathrooms clears Senate committee

May 9, 2022 4:06 pm

The Senate Education Committee passed a bill requiring that school districts provide feminine hygiene products, defined in the bill as “tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle,” in school bathrooms for grades 6 through 12,...

Young people are significantly underrepresented in Trenton

March 25, 2022 2:44 pmMarch 28, 2022 12:25 am

Does the New Jersey legislature have an age problem? Usually, that kind of question is answered with statistics about just how old politicians are. The average age of a New Jersey legislator, for example, is 58-and-a-half; looking just at the...

David Brown will run for re-election as Monmouth Dem chairman

March 23, 2022 2:58 pmMarch 23, 2022 6:01 pm

Monmouth Democratic Party chairman David Brown announced today that he will run for re-election with endorsements from most prominent Monmouth County and statewide Democrats, including Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch), Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown), State Sen. Vin Gopal (D-Long Branch),...