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The Night Before Christmas

December 24, 2022 1:25 pm

’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the state Not a campaign was stirring, even in LD8 The offices were chosen in D.C. with care, In hopes that Kean Jr. soon would be there. Results are all nestled with...

Interim tests find broad swaths of NJ students falling behind

June 17, 2021 9:37 am

Interim testing of the state’s students conducted between November and February found large swaths of kids were falling behind, with Black and Hispanic students facing the largest deficits. The Department of Education found 37% of students were below grade level...

Americans overwhelmingly want Republicans to work with Biden, poll finds

January 27, 2021 12:00 pmJanuary 27, 2021 10:25 am

Americans overwhelmingly want Republicans in Congress to work with President Joe Biden, a Monmouth University Poll released Wednesday found. More than two-thirds of respondents, 71%, said they’d prefer the minority party work with the new president than keep him in...

New Jersey Republicans not alone in election denial, poll says

December 10, 2020 2:19 pmDecember 10, 2020 2:38 pm

New Jersey rank-and-file Republicans’ denial of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump is no exception, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. That poll found 77% of Republicans believed there was widespread voter fraud in last month’s...

Kornacki: No other state has New Jersey’s politics

December 1, 2020 8:31 pm

Take it from Steve Kornacki: New Jersey’s politics are unique. In a virtual conversation with Rowan University’s Ben Dworkin, the NBC and MSNBC national political correspondent said the Garden State’s political landscape dwarfed even those of similarly old states. “I...

Sudhan Thomas, alleged accomplice indicted on 26 counts

November 2, 2020 6:01 pm

A federal grand jury indicted former Jersey City School Board president Sudhan Thomas on additional counts of money laundering, fraud and embezzlement spanning multiple alleged schemes in a massive 26-count indictment, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Thomas, the former acting executive...

New Jersey voters like state’s mostly mail election

October 30, 2020 3:57 pm

New Jerseyans broadly support the state’s decision to move to a mostly mail election, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton poll released Friday. The survey found 69% of likely voters backed the decision to increase access to mail-in ballots and deemphasize in-person...