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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...

A brief electoral history of Ras Baraka

May 10, 2025 9:41 pm

If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is elected governor of New Jersey in this year’s election, he’d make a lot of history. He’d be the first Black person elected to lead the state; in fact, no major party in New Jersey...

Payne family patriarch endorses Mikie Sherrill for governor

May 8, 2025 1:29 pmMay 8, 2025 2:50 pm

Newark political royalty – the family of the late Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. – is backing Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, eschewing Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s bid to become the state’s first Black governor. “Because...

A brief electoral history of Ras Baraka

April 25, 2024 1:22 pmJuly 25, 2024 2:26 pm

If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is elected governor of New Jersey in next year’s election, he’d make a lot of history. He’d be the first Black person elected to lead the state; in fact, no major party in New Jersey...

Wanda Payne, congressman’s sister, dies at 60

August 20, 2021 11:13 am

Wanda Payne, a retired educator and the scion of one of a prominent North Jersey political family, has died. She was 60. Payne was the sister of Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-Newark). She spent 31 years as a public...

Kathryn Payne James, mother of ex-assemblyman, sister and aunt of legislators, dies at 88

December 31, 2019 9:12 am

Kathryn Payne James, the matriarch of one of New Jersey’s most prominent political families, died on December 18. She was 88. James was the mother of former Assemblyman Craig Stanley (D-Irvington), the sister of former Assemblyman William Payne (D-Newark) and...

Sponsor of move to impeach Verniero wants Murphy to reconsider

October 18, 2018 12:06 amOctober 18, 2018 8:42 am

The sponsor of a 2001 State Assembly resolution to impeach Peter Verniero wants Gov. Phil Murphy to reconsider his pick of the former Supreme Court Justice to head an independent investigation of a top administration official for sexual assault. “I...