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State Police change their minds, again, on statehouse vaccination checkpoint

December 5, 2021 7:13 pm

The New Jersey State Police is backing off an order from this afternoon and will not check vaccination records at the statehouse garage. “I was just notified by the NJSP of a change to the previous notification,” said Steven Pietrzak,...

Hochul names Jerrel Harvey as campaign communications director

December 3, 2021 9:11 am

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has hired two formidable operatives from Gov. Phil Murphy’s recent re-election campaign in New Jersey to help her win across the river in 2022. Jerrel Harvey will serve as the communications director for Hochul, who...

A Tale of Three Needham, Mass. guys: Phil Murphy, Pete DeFazio and Charlie Baker

December 1, 2021 6:40 pmDecember 2, 2021 8:43 am

As New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy prepares to be inaugurated to a second term next month, two of his Needham, Massachusetts neighbors announced they were calling it quits. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, who graduated from Needham High School with Murphy...

Murphy carried 24 legislative districts on his path to victory

December 1, 2021 12:27 pmDecember 1, 2021 12:37 pm

Though Gov. Phil Murphy didn’t win this year’s gubernatorial election by as much as he may have wanted, he carried a healthy majority of the state’s legislative districts, winning 24 to Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli’s 16. Democrats in the...

Coughlin will back Murphy gun agenda, agrees to post bills during lame duck

December 1, 2021 9:43 amDecember 1, 2021 12:28 pm

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin will support Gov. Phil Murphy’s third round of reforms aimed at reducing gun violence and act during the legislature’s lame duck session, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Coughlin will appear with Murphy in Metuchen on...

41 days left for Murphy Supreme Court pick to get confirmed, and it’s not looking good

December 1, 2021 12:20 amDecember 1, 2021 8:56 am

The clock on Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Rachel Wainer Apter to the New Jersey Supreme Court is quickly running out and it’s not clear whether Justice Jaynee LaVecchia will extend her retirement for a second time. State Sen. Holly...

DePhillips proposes reshaping capitol commission in response to Covid mandates

November 30, 2021 10:34 am

As his fellow Republican legislators gear up for a potential boycott of the legislature over the New Jersey State Capitol’s vaccine-or-testing mandate, Assemblyman Christopher DePhillips (R-Wyckoff) today proposed an alternate path forward: remaking the commission that implemented the policy in...