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Burlington Democrats win sheriff, freeholder races

November 5, 2019 11:49 pmNovember 6, 2019 9:35 am

Burlington County elected a Democratic sheriff and now has a 5-0 majority on the Board of Freeholders. Anthony Basantis defeated Michael Ditzel by 8,258 votes, 52%-44%, to become the next sheriff. Republican Jean Stanfield, now an assemblywoman-elect, had held the...

Maps: New Jersey Vote-by-Mail Ballots

October 28, 2019 9:03 pmOctober 29, 2019 11:43 am

Party affiliation of returned vote-by-mail ballots are tightening in some of the state’s most closely-watched legislative races.

Burlington GOP outspends Dems 2 to 1 before refunds

October 21, 2019 1:00 pm

Burlington County’s Republican party has spent twice as much as its Democratic counterpart so far in 2019, according to October quarterly reports filed with the Election Law Enforcement Commission. The Burlington GOP reported spending $326,185 between Sept. 30 and the...

Democratic Assembly candidate crossed picket line as Verizon replacement worker

October 16, 2019 8:09 pmOctober 17, 2019 5:02 pm

A Democratic candidate for State Assembly in the 8th district used social media to boast about crossing a picket line while union employees of the company she worked for were on strike. Gina LaPlaca was a government affairs executive for...

Westampton committee candidate blasted from both sides over blackface photos

October 14, 2019 5:39 pmOctober 14, 2019 9:31 pm

Republicans are calling for a GOP committee candidate to suspend his campaign following the discovery of a series of blackface photos he posted on Facebook in 2009. “What I saw in those photos is nothing short of sickening,” former Westampton...

In a Burlington school referendum, 31% of VBM ballots already returned

September 24, 2019 8:15 pmSeptember 24, 2019 8:23 pm

An early test of New Jersey’s new vote-by-mail law can be seen tonight in five Burlington County municipalities that are in the closely-watched race 8th district State Assembly race. Election officials anticipate that more than one-third of all vote-by-mail ballots...

Comptroller says Wrightstown mayor okay’d under-the-table dumping deal

September 19, 2019 2:45 pmSeptember 19, 2019 2:46 pm

An investigation by the Office of the State Comptroller found Wrightstown Mayor Thomas Harper and Rodman Lucas, operations manager of the Wrightstown Municipal Utilities Authority, entered into an improper waste disposal arrangement that benefited Lucas’s private waste disposal company. The...