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Gloucester progressive slate fails to qualify for Dem primary

April 3, 2020 12:07 pmApril 3, 2020 12:24 pm

Nominating petitions for a slate of progressive freeholder candidates in Gloucester County were tossed for having an insufficient number of signatures. Gloucester County Action Together New Jersey co-chair Lisa Bonnano had filed to run for freeholder with Rev. Sherry Hall...

Progressive slates file in six South Jersey counties

March 31, 2020 7:35 pmApril 1, 2020 11:33 am

Progressives have fielded full slates of candidates for countywide office in six counties with the intention of bracketing with Democratic congressional candidate Amy Kennedy. In five of those counties – Cape May, Cumberland, Burlington, Camden and Gloucester – Brigid Harrison...

Flanagan will bracket with Patterson, Novak

March 30, 2020 6:24 pmMarch 31, 2020 1:23 am

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tricia Flanagan said she plans to bracket with congressional candidates Robert Patterson in the 2nd district and John Novak in the 3rd. Patterson, a former Trump administration official, is challenging Democrat-turned-Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis)...

South Jersey goes for Biden in massive endorsement

March 11, 2020 3:35 pmMarch 11, 2020 3:35 pm

South Jersey Democrats moved solidly behind Joe Biden for president today in a gargantuan organizational juggernaut that includes endorsements from Senate President Steve Sweeney, seven Democratic county chairs and every Democratic legislator in the southern part of the state. The...

New Jersey splits on school referendums: two approved, two defeated

March 10, 2020 11:13 pmMarch 11, 2020 12:18 am

Woodbridge and Belmar passed school construction bond referendums on Tuesday, but voters in Edison and South Harrison rejected them. The four municipalities to hold Special School Board referendums today. Edison rejected their second referendum in three months. A $183.2 million...

Voters headed to polls in four N.J. towns today

March 10, 2020 11:40 amMarch 10, 2020 2:38 pm

Voters in four New Jersey municipalities will go to the polls today for Special School Board elections. New Jersey law requires voter approval on school construction bond issues that will incur additional debt for towns. Today is one of five...

Belling is Booker’s new South Jersey director

March 9, 2020 11:43 am

Cory Booker has named Deptford councilwoman MacKenzie Belling as the South Jersey state director on his U.S. Senate staff. She succeeds Bill Moen, who departed in January to take his seat as the assemblyman from the 5th legislative district. State...