A sweeping new report examining recent federal health policy changes is sparking urgent conversation across New Jersey, where health advocates, medical providers, and residents...

On the eve of South Jersey and North Jersey coming together to make South Jersey ironworker Steve Sweeney of Gloucester County the senate president in 2009, the late North Jersey Powerbroker Steve Adubato said, “From the beginning of time, the North and South have been at odds. I say, let the North and South live in peace.” A short time later, at an Essex County political soiree, Sweeney and Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo, a key Adubato ally, hugged each other and posed for a picture. “One New Jersey,” Sweeney proclaimed, just before he went on to clock the most years as senate president in New Jersey history, finally getting voted out of office in 2021. Now,...

New Jersey Republican players are awash in a sea of optimism regarding the 2025 gubernatorial campaign.  This is due to the closer than expected margin in the Garden State between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the November presidential general election.  This optimism may be very misplaced, however, depending on the actions of the incoming Trump administration. If, for example, Trump conducts a major deportation of undocumented immigrants, affecting the lives of thousands of New Jersey Hispanics or makes large reductions in Social Security or Medicare benefits, the result will be a massive backlash against the New Jersey Republican Party. The 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial election will...