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Armando Fontoura – 20,879 votes (77.6%) Barry Jackson – 1,186 votes (4.41%) REPUBLICAN (vote for one) Nicholas Pansini – 5,014 votes (81.01%) Incumbent Armando Fontoura, the longest-serving sheriff in county history, faced a challenge for the Democratic Party nod from John Arnold Jr., a former deputy director with the Newark Police Department, and a third candidate, Barry Jackson. The Republican candidates for sheriff in the 2021 primary election were Nicholas Pansini and Maureen Edelson....

In Presidential election years, New Jersey politics is usually the furthest thing from people’s minds and that is how the political machine bosses like it.

The politics moves and countermoves that are made in 2022 will provide us with some clues about what will happen in 2023. 

Four candidates will be on the ballot when the New Jersey Republican gubernatorial primary election takes place on June 8 – Jack Ciattarelli, Brian Levine, Phil Rizzo and Hirsh Singh. The winner will earn the GOP's nomination and face off against incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in this November's general election.

NJ LCV Endorses Candidates in the 2021 Legislative Election By Insider NJ | May 25, 2021, 1:46 pm | in Caucus Room New Jersey League of Conservation Voters, the political voice for the environment, today announced their second round of endorsements for the 2021 New Jersey legislative elections – with an additional slate of pro-conservation candidates to follow. New Jersey LCV works to elect viable candidates, without regard to party affiliation, who ...

In Woodland Park on Saturday, it was measured in shoes. Some 277 pairs, along 300 feet of walkway in Dowling Gardens, bore witness to unfathomable pain: of young people who are no longer there to fill those boots, sandals and sneakers. Teen suicide— suicide and mental trauma in general — was the subject of a sobering exhibit brought to the town by the Stigma Free Task Force, a group that since 2016 has been raising awareness of a growing problem. On each pair of shoes, a tag with a quote...

Leaders urge N.J. to divest pension from fossil fuels, battling climate change Updated May 06, 2021; Posted May 05, 2021 Real estate photo of City Hall in Jersey City, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. (REENA ROSE SIBAYAN JOURNAL PHOTO) Facebook Share Leaders from New Jersey’s second-largest city sent a clear message to Gov. Phil Murphy last week: Get public workers’ pensions out of the fossil fuel business. The Jersey City city council passed a resolution urging the Murphy administration to fully...

N.J. announces new measures to protect tenants from illegal lockouts during eviction moratorium Updated Apr 05, 2021; Hundreds of New Jersey tenants have been illegally locked out of their home during the coronavirus pandemic, despite the eviction moratorium that remains in place through mid-June. Now, more than a year after Gov. Phil Murphy signed the executive order enacting the moratorium, the Attorney General’s office has released new guidelines for law enforcement agencies to help resto...

Credit: (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) File photo On the eve of the one-year anniversary of New Jersey’s first COVID-19 death, legislators moved to provide $20 million to help needy people with unreimbursed burial expenses for those who died from the novel coronavirus. “Almost everyone in New Jersey knows at least one person that has passed away due to COVID-19,” said Sen. Ron Rice (D-Essex), sponsor of the legislation creating a state COVID-19 burial assistance program. “These unexpec...

NorthJersey.com County and state prosecutors — including state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal — could be barred from holding elected office for three years after their term ends if a new bill clears the state Legislature. Introduced in December by state Sen. Richard Codey, an Essex County Democrat, the legislation aims to stop high-profile prosecutors from using their position to vault into politics, Codey said Thursday. But it has also been seen as a shot across the bow for Grewal, who ha...