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County-backed candidates in Edison score 2-1 wins

June 4, 2019 5:00 pmJune 4, 2019 11:15 pm

The party-backed slate of Democratic council candidates roundly defeated their challengers Tuesday. Councilmen Ajay Patil, Joseph Coyle and their running mates, Richard Brescher and Joyce Ship-Freeman won the Democratic nod over Councilman Michael Lombardi, Councilman Leonard Sendelsky, Nimisha Shulka and...

Advocacy group wants Asian communities taken into account in redistricting

May 23, 2019 3:34 pmMay 24, 2019 10:11 am

Jersey Promise, an Asian American advocacy group, is recommending that the state take into account communities of interest when drafting legislative district lines in 2021 to increase Asian-American representation in Trenton. “To increase both substantive and descriptive representation of the...

Middlesex-Monmouth alliance in spotlight with joint fundraiser tonight

May 9, 2019 3:31 pm

The tight relationship between Democrats in Middlesex and Monmouth counties – something that likely impacts the race for Democratic state chairman later this year – will be on display tonight at a joint fundraiser to benefit the re-election campaign of...

Labor group honors Peg Schaffer

April 28, 2019 8:22 pm

Democratic state vice chair Peg Schaffer received the Hubert H. Humphrey Friend of Labor award from the Middlesex-Somerset AFL-CIO labor council. Wayne Martiak, the business representative for IBEW 456, said that Schaffer “has for years stood alongside labor, fighting for...

Middlesex town voted down renaming to Kennedy Township

April 24, 2019 3:29 pmApril 24, 2019 3:32 pm

Before settling on Old Bridge, voters in the Middlesex County municipality rejected changing the name of their township from Madison to Kennedy Township in a vote that happened less than a year after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Madison...

Elaine Flynn error causes filing deadline extension

April 1, 2019 10:58 pm

Middlesex County Clerk Elaine Flynn today arbitrarily extended the filing deadline until 4PM tomorrow after mistakenly informing municipal clerks of the wrong date. It is not immediately clear whether a county clerk has the legal authority to do that. The...

Rivers running off the line in 17th

March 28, 2019 1:43 pmMarch 28, 2019 3:45 pm

Assemblymen Joseph Egan (D-New Brunswick) and Joe Danielsen (D-Franklin) won’t get the party nomination for free this year. The two incumbents are being challenged by Ron Rivers, a small businessman who is running off the line in an effort to...