900 votes in a special election don’t mean what some folks want you to think
The special election came and went, and the analysts did what analysts do. They got out their calculators and their precinct maps and found something to write about. About 900 voters in this tidy Essex County suburb — Jewish Democrats, mostly — either voted for a Republican or stayed home rather than pull the lever…
New Pentagon leader is connected to a firm that trained Jamal Khashoggi’s killers
The director of the Pentagon’s new “Economic Defense Unit” was a board member of Tier 1 Group, which trained four of the Saudi operatives involved in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Websites dating back to 2009 list George Kollitides in leadership roles at the private security company, indicating he was at Tier 1 Group when it trained the Saudi nationals later linked with Khashoggi’s killing. Under…
New Jersey reports first measles case of 2026 involving Hudson County resident
by Lilo H. Stainton, New Jersey Monitor State health officials announced New Jersey’s first measles case for 2026 on Wednesday, hours after a legislative hearing that touched on Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s plan to increase state funding for immunization programs by nearly $4 million. A Hudson County resident was diagnosed with measles following a trip…
Drug trafficking thugs turned a Jersey City corner into a killing field
For years, the intersections of Myrtle Avenue and Mallory Avenue in Jersey City functioned as something other than a place where children wait for school buses or old men sit on stoops watching the world go by. They were a supermarket. Not for milk and bread. For fentanyl. Federal authorities this week swept up 29…
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