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Murphy, DiVincenzo showing off new alliance

January 22, 2020 11:54 am

Essex County plans to construct a new courthouse named for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Gov. Phil Murphy and Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo will announce their plan to a new 150,000-square-foot office building in Newark that will accommodate 11...

Two Orange city councilmembers want to run for mayor and seek re-election at the same time

January 20, 2020 8:33 pmJanuary 22, 2020 4:25 pm

Two local officeholders in Orange are testing a 2018 law that would allow Cory Booker to run simultaneously for president and U.S. Senate to an almost absurd level by attempting to run for both mayor and city council in the...

How the Becchi district swap happened

January 19, 2020 9:34 pmJanuary 21, 2020 1:23 pm

Rosemarie Becchi began to seriously consider switching districts and running against Mikie Sherrill instead of Tom Malinowski sometime on Friday and made a final decision on Sunday morning, according to fourteen sources familiar with all or part of the marathon...

O’Donnell sometimes billed towns more than 24 hours in a day for legal fees

January 15, 2020 3:53 pmJanuary 16, 2020 1:41 pm

Attorney Matt O’Donnell, the state’s cooperating witness in a corruption sting operation, sometimes billed municipalities in excess of 24 hours in a single day, according to bills submitted to government entities that were reviewed by the New Jersey Globe. O’Donnell...

C. Robert Sarcone, former senator and gubernatorial candidate, dies at 94

January 13, 2020 6:30 pm

Former State Sen. C. Robert Sarcone (R-Newark), the former Minority Leader of the New Jersey State Assembly and a candidate for the GOP nomination for Governor in 1977, died on January 12. He was 94. A talented trial lawyer and...

Norcross dropped DiVincenzo Super Bowl party five months ago, memo shows

January 13, 2020 1:53 pmJanuary 13, 2020 3:10 pm

An InsiderNJ report that Democratic leader George Norcross pulled his participation in Joseph DiVincenzo’s annual Super Bowl party in Puerto Rico over Essex County Executive’s endorsement of Gov. Phil Murphy’s re-election and the fight over the state party chairmanship is...

DiVincenzo endorses Murphy for re-election

January 13, 2020 8:27 amJanuary 13, 2020 10:57 am

Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo has endorsed Gov. Phil Murphy for re-election next year, a move that indicates a thawing between the Essex-South Jersey Democratic alliance and almost certainly clinches Murphy’s chances of winning a Democratic primary. “I wanted to...