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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 16, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Mike Hayes

    The most expensive congressional race in NJ history? This could be the one. (opens the original)

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    It’s the kind of record that was bound to be broken. In 2024, New Jersey incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. was pitted against Democrat Sue Altman in what was eventually crowned the most expensive race for a congressional seat in New Jersey history. All combined, campaign spending in the state’s 7th Congressional District topped out at $26.3 million. Now, political experts predict this year’s race for the same seat will be even pricier, with large sums pouring in during the race’s final stre

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Mike Hayes

    Mental health, affordability, stock trades. Here’s what you missed in Sunday’s NJ debate. (opens the original)

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    Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. and Rebecca Bennett sparred in the first and likely only debate between the two New Jersey candidates locked in one of the country’s most closely watched congressional races. Kean, a Republican political scion whose father is a former Garden State governor, and Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot and first-time Democratic candidate, clashed on issues that ranged from President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, tariffs, how to fix healthcare costs, an ICE detention center in the

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Mike Hayes

    NJ Lt. Governor Dale Caldwell has resigned, Gov. Sherrill says (opens the original)

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    New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Friday her embattled second-in-command — Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell — has resigned amid allegations that he made female members of his staff uncomfortable, and was the subject of a sexual harassment complaint that was substantiated by investigators. “I gave the lieutenant governor until today to resign,” Sherrill said at a press conference Friday. “He submitted his resignation to me this afternoon, which I accepted.” Caldwell denied the allegations but investigato

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Mike Hayes

    NJ Governor asks Caldwell, her second in command, to resign (opens the original)

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    New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Thursday asked her Lieutenant Governor Dale Caldwell to resign from office by Friday, following an investigation that found he made female members of his staff uncomfortable, including a sexual harassment complaint that was substantiated by investigators. A 61-page report Sherrill released late Thursday concluded that Caldwell asked a female senior staffer whether her friend was single and that if the woman was ambitious, she “needed a man who was in a position

  5. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Mike Hayes

    NJ AG reviewing claim that ICE is detaining people at warehouse, violating court order (opens the original)

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    The New Jersey attorney general’s office says it is “carefully reviewing” a claim that the U.S Immigration and Enforcement agency is illegally detaining immigrants at a warehouse facility in Roxbury, New Jersey. A New Jersey activist coalition, known as Project No ICE North Jersey Alliance, told Gothamist it sent a letter to New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport’s office on Friday alleging ICE is in violation of a May court order forbidding it from detaining people at the North Jersey f

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