Gov. Phil Murphy has nominated Newark Business Administrator Eric Pennington for a seat on the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. He would replace Robert Yudin, a former Bergen County Republican Chairman who has served as a Sports Authority Commissioner...
Gov. Phil Murphy supported keeping in place an unwritten Senate rule that allows members to indefinitely block gubernatorial nominees from their home county Monday, backing a measure that has been used to stymie the governor’s own nominations. “I have to...
Gov. Phil Murphy will nominate Peg Schaffer, the Somerset County Democratic Chair, and the vice chair of the Democratic State Committee, for a seat on the Sports and Exposition Authority. She will replace Bob Yudin, a former Bergen County Republican...
Jude DeLane, who spent 20 years as a personal assistant and district office aide to U.S. Senator Clifford P. Case of New Jersey, died on February 14 after a long fight with pulmonary fibrosis. He was 80. DeLane worked for...
The Bergen Record’s Mike Kelly appears to have misunderstood a Washington Post poll, but hasn’t moved to correct his error – almost as if facts don’t matter to the tetchy opinion-giver. In a column about former Bergen County GOP chairman...
Trenton City Councilwoman Robin Vaughn is defending a colleague’s “Jew her down” comment, calling “Jew down” a verb and suggesting that the term isn’t “anti-anything.” “We really need to get a more acute meaning and understanding of ‘anti-Semitic.’ I believe...
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) is facing criticism from a Democratic mayor in her district over her vote against a House resolution opposing the movement to boycott Israel. “Well-meaning people can disagree about the Netanyahu government’s policies towards the Palestinians...