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Judiciary shrinks to 11 members

January 12, 2018 11:35 pm

The Senate Judiciary Committee will have two less members this year, with Senate President Steve Sweeney and Minority Leader Tom Kean agreeing not to fill the seats of two Senators who did not seek re-election. The powerful panel, which must...

Porrino, deputy return to old firm

January 11, 2018 4:55 pm

Attorney General Christopher Porrino will rejoin his old law firm when his term expires next week, according to a press release posted on the Lowenstein Sandler website. Peter Slocum, the First Assistant Attorney General, will also join the Lowenstein firm....

Fighting infection, Green delays taking oath

January 11, 2018 2:27 pm

Jerry Green, the Dean of the New Jersey State Assembly, has not yet taken the oath of office for a 14th term in the State Assembly. The 78-year-old Green has been out for most of the last three months, recovering...

Short List for Trenton mayoral candidates

January 11, 2018 10:21 am

Speculation that Trenton Mayor Eric Jackson will not seek re-election to a second term, first reported by InsiderNJ, has led some Democratic insiders to quickly build a short list to replace him: Councilwoman Verlina Reynolds Jackson, the Mercer County Democratic...

Yudin tells DiGaetano to resign

January 11, 2018 9:57 am

Forty Republican incumbents have lost re-election in Bergen County since Paul DiGaetano became County Chairman in 2016, and the man he beats for the post thinks he should resign. In a message to party insiders this morning, Yudin criticized DiGaetano...

Michele Brown named to psychiatric hospital board

January 10, 2018 5:51 pm

Gov. Chris Christie filed 83 direct appointments today, including Michele Brown to the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Board of Trustees. With less than a week left as Governor, Christie loaded up a bunch of state boards with staffers and allies....

Murphy unlikely to abandon Baraka

January 10, 2018 2:46 pm

It’s not the first family fight of the fledgling Murphy governorship and it won’t be the last, but the race for Mayor of Newark will be something to watch this year. Gayle Cheneyfield-Jenkins, who backed Phil Murphy when Ras Baraka...