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Tucker wants Rice’s seat, but will wait to see if Democrats want her

August 23, 2022 4:04 pmAugust 23, 2022 9:01 pm

Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D-Newark) wants to move up to the State Senate but is waiting to find out if she is the choice of party leaders for the open 28th district seat before she jumps in the race. “I’m willing...

Assemblyman Ralph Caputo and Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker

Caputo won’t seek Rice Senate seat

August 23, 2022 12:02 pmAugust 23, 2022 4:05 pm

Assemblyman Ralph Caputo (D-Nutley) will not be a candidate for State Senate in a special election convention next month to replace Ronald Rice, a Newark Democrat who is resigning for health reasons after nearly 36 years in Trenton. “I’m not...

Flags will fly at half-staff in tribute to Ogden, Murphy orders

August 18, 2022 8:12 pmAugust 19, 2022 12:41 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy has ordered New Jersey’s flags to be flown at half-staff on Frida in honor of former Assemblywoman Maureen Ogden (R-Millburn), who died this week at age 93. Ogden represented parts of Essex and Union counties in the...

The story of a N.J. Assembly Democratic feud and the ‘seven southern castaways’

January 31, 2022 12:01 amJanuary 31, 2022 12:04 pm

The decision of Democrats to dump Steve Sweeney, the former Senate President, from his seat on the Legislative Apportionment Commission, has led to speculation – so far unfounded, that South Jersey will retaliate through diminished cooperation with the Gov. Phil...

Scutari invites Codey back into Senate leadership

January 12, 2022 2:50 pmJanuary 12, 2022 2:54 pm

Former Gov. Richard J. Codey (D-Roseland) has returned to the Senate leadership team twelve years after Steve Sweeney ousted him as Senate President after the 2009 election. Senate President Nicholas Scutari (D-Linden) announced on Tuesday that Codey would serve as...

Pennacchio, Barranco, Webber win in the 26th district

November 2, 2021 8:10 pmDecember 17, 2021 4:20 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that State Sen. Joe Pennacchio (R-Montville) and Assemblyman Jay Webber (R-Morris Plains) have won re-election to the 26th legislative district, and that Republican Christian Barranco has won his first term in the legislature. The...

Murphy says NJ Transit intends to figure out what caused disaster in Bound Brook

September 20, 2021 3:43 pm

After three Republican legislators called this morning for an independent investigation into flooding in Bound Brook during Hurricane Ida, Gov. Phil Murphy said that while he has not yet seen the request for an investigation, he supports looking into the matter...