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Republicans renew push to match voter rolls with jury records

July 27, 2026 12:48 pmJuly 27, 2026 12:50 pm

Assembly Republicans are renewing their push to require New Jersey election officials to compare the state’s voter registration database with jury records that identify roughly 75,000 noncitizens each year. The move comes days after Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed that a...

Steinhardt: Breaking Down Silos — Why New Jersey should lead the next era of healthcare competition

July 27, 2026 5:04 amJuly 26, 2026 6:39 pm

OPINION More than a century ago, Americans tackled a problem that, at first, many saw as the inevitable consequence of successful business. Standard Oil had become extraordinarily efficient. Railroads had become indispensable. And later, AT&T connected nearly every American telephone....

All 15 Senate Republicans call for probe of voter registration failures

July 23, 2026 2:58 pm

All fifteen Republicans in the New Jersey State Senate are calling for the creation of a bipartisan legislative committee with subpoena power to investigate how thousands of non-citizens were improperly registered to vote and nearly 400 cast ballots. The demand...

Stewart: Second chances deserve a clean slate — with safeguards

July 23, 2026 2:52 pm

OPINION Growing up in Paterson, I saw firsthand how one mistake could follow someone for the rest of their life. Even today, I personally know individuals who have done everything society asked of them—completed treatment, stayed out of trouble, built...

New law protects unemployment benefits for poll workers

July 23, 2026 2:35 pm

Gov. Mikie Sherrill has signed legislation ensuring that New Jerseyans who work the polls will not lose unemployment benefits because of their election-related wages, a move aimed at making it easier for counties to recruit the temporary workers needed to...

Sherrill signs law banning ‘surveillance pricing’ on groceries

July 23, 2026 12:57 pm

New Jersey retailers will no longer be allowed to mine a shopper’s personal data to calculate how much that individual might be willing to pay for groceries and other necessities under a new law signed today by Gov. Mikie Sherrill....

Barlas warns AG against taking Sherrill’s lead on illegal voter charges

July 22, 2026 4:04 pmJuly 22, 2026 7:03 pm

Assemblyman Al Barlas (R-Cedar Grove) is urging Attorney General Jennifer Davenport to disregard Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s opposition to prosecuting nearly 400 noncitizens who cast ballots after being improperly registered to vote through a New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission software failure....