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Republicans don’t want to write a budget, improve our nation’s schools or health care system or anything that might be consequential for ordinary Americans, especially American children. Instead, they are spending much of their time on non-issues or made-up issues. After all, fake issues are so much easier to deal with than real ones.

Assemblyman Thomas Giblin (D-Montclair) said today that he will run for re-election to the Assembly in the 27th legislative district, a substantially

Bob Spindell's refusal to resign, or for GOP leaders to remove him, may have wider implications.

Community Board 1’s cabinet meeting on Thursday, Jan. 12 was its first of the new year and was a meeting that probably gave its virtual visitors and its moderator the feeling that a new year had brought with it a hefty load of old difficulties, beginning with the coronavirus pandemic known as COVID-19. For some

On Tuesday, State Sen. Christopher Connors (R-Lacey) announced that he won’t seek re-election to the State Senate this year, bringing a three-decade

Occasionally, I like to devote a column to taking care of some unfinished business in stories I have been relating to you during the past year. One of the most recent involves State Sen.-elect Jarrett...

Fifty Years Ago This Week: State Sen.-elect Roy Romer, D-Denver, spoke at the Democratic Forum in Denver to drum up support for the establishment of a new, four-year Denver State

Assemblyman-elect Joshua Hoover is preparing to step into his new role at the state Capitol, the building where he's worked as a legislative aide for 11 years. He'll be sworn in on Dec. 5.

Following the deadly Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, questions about red flag laws have risen to the top of everyone’s mind.

The Senate runoff in Georgia is just weeks away. But despite setbacks and efforts at voter suppression, there was some history made in the state: Voters sent the first two Muslim women to the state legislature. One of them, State Sen.-elect Nabilah Islam, joins Mehdi to discuss her work in politics, her campaign and more.