Wayne DeAngelo Archives - New Jersey Globe

Ireland pitches Rutgers Scarlet Knights Football to play a game in Dublin

April 26, 2022 12:00 amApril 26, 2022 12:19 am

Ireland is trying to persuade the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights football team to play a Big Ten Conference football game there next season. The pitch was made to a group of about fifteen New Jersey legislators visiting there earlier this...

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...

Who were the holdouts on the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act?

January 18, 2022 6:00 amJanuary 17, 2022 11:15 pm

When the New Jersey legislature passed the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act last week, codifying abortion into state law, it did so largely on partisan lines: Democrats were eager to support the bill while Republicans lined up against it. But...

Nick Mammano joins Mercury

January 5, 2022 12:01 amJanuary 5, 2022 11:47 am

A Bergen County political insider is joining one of New Jersey’s most influential public affairs firms. Mercury announced today that Nicholas M. Mammano, who has been chief of staff to State Sen. Joseph Lagana (D-Paramus) since 2014, has joined their...

Greenstein, Benson, DeAngelo win in the 14th district

November 2, 2021 8:10 pmDecember 17, 2021 2:43 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that State Sen. Linda Greenstein (D-Plainsboro), Assemblyman Daniel Benson (D-Hamilton), and Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo (D-Hamilton) have won re-election to the 14th legislative district. Republican attorney Adam Elias lost his Senate campaign, while Andrew Pachuta...

Democrats condemn Monroe GOP candidate for offensive Facebook posts

October 14, 2021 6:41 pm

After a New Jersey Globe story this morning drew attention to bizarre and offensive Facebook posts found on the account of Steve Martin, the Republican nominee for mayor in Monroe Township, a bevy of Central Jersey Democrats have released statements...

SCOTUS case on Mississippi abortion restrictions hasn’t gotten the Reproductive Freedom Act moving

May 19, 2021 5:08 pmMay 19, 2021 5:27 pm

News of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case concerning abortion restrictions in New Jersey have redoubled activists’ efforts to get the Reproductive Freedom Act moving, but sentiment in the legislature is unchanged, sources in the legislature...