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Software Error at NJ Motor Vehicle Commission Improperly Registered Thousands of Noncitizens to Vote

Governor Mikie Sherrill announced this week that a software error at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission improperly registered thousands of noncitizens to vote,...

Sherrill Convenes Utility Executives as New Jersey Presses Forward on Energy Affordability

Governor Mikie Sherrill met directly with executives from the state's major utility companies this week, continuing her administration's sustained push to bring down energy...

Senator Andy Kim Proposes MediKids Act, a Bid for Universal Health Coverage for Children and Young Adults

New Jersey Senator Andy Kim has introduced a major new federal health care proposal called the MediKids Act, aiming to establish universal health coverage...

New Jersey Bans Algorithmic Rent-Setting Software, Becoming the Fourth State to Target the Practice

New Jersey has taken another significant step in its ongoing effort to address housing affordability with the enactment of the Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation...

This Week on Reporters Roundtable: DHS Voter Roll Claims, the Roxbury Standoff, and New Jersey’s Post-Budget Math

NJ Spotlight News is bringing its weekly Reporters Roundtable back to NJ PBS this week, gathering a rotating panel of New Jersey's top political...

DHS Sends Letter to New Jersey Citing Preliminary Data on Noncitizens Found on Voter Rolls

The Department of Homeland Security has formally notified election officials in New Jersey and three other states that a preliminary data review identified thousands...

New Jersey Politicians Split Sharply Along Party Lines After Trump’s Primetime Election Integrity Address

President Trump's primetime address from the White House East Room on election integrity has drawn a genuinely stark, predictably divided reaction from New Jersey's...

Inside New Jersey’s Two Immigration Courts, Amid Growing Criticism From Attorneys Over How Cases Are Being Handled

New Jersey operates two separate federal immigration courts, both falling under the jurisdiction of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a branch of the...

Health Care Advocacy Group Launches “Faces of the GOP Health Care Crisis” Campaign, Targeting Rep. Tom Kean

A national health care advocacy organization has launched a pointed new campaign aimed directly at Representative Tom Kean of New Jersey's Seventh District, part...

A Combative Day on Capitol Hill: Booker Clashes With AG Nominee Blanche While Gottheimer Presses New Fed Chair

Capitol Hill produced two genuinely significant hearings on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, both drawing active participation from New Jersey's congressional delegation. In the Senate,...

New Jersey’s Highest Court Sets New Rules for How Facial Recognition Evidence Gets Disclosed in Criminal Cases

The New Jersey Supreme Court has issued a significant ruling reshaping how defendants can access information about facial recognition technology used against them during...

The Long Odds and Long Road of Justin Murphy’s Senate Campaign Against Cory Booker

Justin Murphy may well be running one of the most anonymous Senate campaigns anywhere in the country this cycle, though that anonymity has far...

New Jersey’s Record K-12 Education Funding Is Not Preventing Budget Shortfalls Across School Districts

New Jersey is investing more money in public education than at any other time in its history. For the 2026-2027 school year, the state...

From East Orange Firehouse to the Essex County Democratic Machine, Akeem Cunningham’s Rapid Rise Reshapes New Jersey Politics

When Mikie Sherrill campaigned for governor last year, she made a point of crediting a specific piece of her political infrastructure back in her...

Matt Rooney Joins Joe Piscopo to Relive His Debate Win and Take Aim at Sherrill’s Budget

Matt Rooney sat down with Joe Piscopo on Wednesday morning for a wide-ranging conversation that covered both a recent political victory and a fresh...

On a Salem County Front Lawn, Sherrill Signs a Sweeping Energy Package Aimed at AI Data Centers and Utility Profits

Governor Mikie Sherrill chose an unusually intimate setting for one of the more consequential policy moments of her young administration, signing three major energy...

Inside the Fight for New Jersey’s Republican Future: Bramnick and Rooney Offer Two Very Different Roads Back to Relevance

New Jersey's Republican Party has spent more than a decade searching for a formula that works statewide, and on July 7, 2026, that search...

New Jersey Abolished Its Party-Boss Ballot System. Now a Different Kind of Bias May Be Deciding Local Elections.

The New Jersey county line ballot was one of the most effective instruments of political machine control available to any county organization in the...

Jersey City’s $255 Million Budget Crisis Has Produced a 15% Tax Hike, a Council Stalemate, and a Political Feud With No Clear Resolution in...

Mayor James Solomon took office in Jersey City in January 2026 and inherited, by his administration's accounting, one of the most severe municipal budget...

Tom Kean Jr. Returns to Congress After 116 Days, Discloses Inpatient Depression Treatment, and Immediately Introduces Mental Health Legislation

Representative Tom Kean Jr. ended four months of unexplained absence from the House of Representatives on June 30 with a five-minute floor speech in...

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