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Trenton, NJ (AHN) – The Judiciary Committee of the New Jersey Senate narrowly passed a gay marriage bill late Monday night, less than a week after the City Council in the District of Columbia approved its own legislation giving gay couples the right to marry. Members of the Judiciary panel voted 7-6 to approve the Marriage [...]
Marriage equality advocates rallied in New Jersey on Monday, but the state senate offered no guarantees of a vote during its lame-duck session.
Final fundraising tallies for local candidates who ran on Election Day three weeks ago will be disclosed Dec. 2, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission announced Monday.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Legislature kicked off the lame duck session Monday with Democrats picking new leaders but both houses failing to advance a gay marriage bill that will die with the Republican governor-elect unless it's signed before his Jan. 19 inauguration.
Barack Obama was elected last year, preaching the Audacity of Hope.
Final fundraising tallies for local candidates who ran on Election Day three weeks ago will be disclosed Dec. 2, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission announced today.
With a former prosecutor waiting in the wings to take over as New Jersey's first Republican governor in a dozen years, Democrats know time is short to push through a social agenda in the Legislature that includes legalizing gay marriage and the use of...
The New Jersey Assembly has chosen new leaders.
As a New Jersey couple drove by Mt. Jackson's apple-themed water tower on Interstate 81, a dispute erupted that meant only one thing -- an e-mail demanding an answer had to be sent to a town employee as soon as possible.
Democrats are seeing a "now or never" urgency for pushing through a social agenda in the New Jersey Legislature.
If Weld County Republican Ken Buck finds success in his bid to capture a Senate seat in Colorado next year, that success will depend, in large measure, on his ability to straddle the ideological gap between emphasizing his conservative credentials and appealing to moderate voters. That's the primary lesson from recent Republican success in elections this month in states such as New Jersey and ...
