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John Judson Campbell left New Jersey as a young sailor, bound for the Philippines in a war that would swallow him whole. On March 30, 82 years after his death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, he finally comes home. The Navy will bury Chief Electrician’s Mate Campbell with full military honors at Hillside Cemetery inContinue reading “A Long Way Home: WWII sailor’s remains return to New Jersey after 83 years”

There is a story being written in the quiet corridors of federal power these days, and it is a story that ought to trouble the sleep of every American who still believes this country amounts to something more than a vast, orderly machine for the management of its own citizens. It begins with a simpleContinue reading “Be Careful What You Post: The new architecture of American dissent”

In the dozen years since Cory Booker arrived in the Senate, the landscape of reproductive rights in America has been scorched earth, reduced to a patchwork of inaccessible care and constitutional chaos. Through this period of historic collapse, Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who is actively campaigning for the 2028 presidential nomination even before heContinue reading “Cory Booker’s long record of rhetoric over results marks defeat on reproductive rights”

Robert S. Mueller III, the former FBI director who led the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and died Friday at 81, drew a public celebration Saturday from the man whose presidency he was appointed to examine. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead,” President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platformContinue reading “Mueller, who investigated Trump-Russia collusion, dies at 81; president celebrates death”

It is a spectacle that would shame a confidence man and confuse a schoolchild: the great vessels of American commerce, the floating cities that carry our countrymen on holiday, the steel leviathans that bear the goods of our daily lives, almost none of them sail beneath the flag of the nation they serve. They flyContinue reading “The embarrassing emptiness of Trump’s America First rhetoric displayed on the high seas”

Dealing with a fungal infection can be a frustrating and uncomfortable experience. But what happens if you catch a common cold on top of it? While it might seem like just another annoyance, the combination can actually make you feel significantly worse. The reason isn’t just in your head; it’s a biological battle happening insideContinue reading “Double Trouble: Why a common cold can make a fungal infection so much worse”

They came not with a bang, but with a redacted whimper. The last batch of Jeffrey Epstein files landed in the public square: more than three million pages of flight logs, witness statements, and the desperate scribblings of a predator who built his own country of the damned, populated by the rich and the ruined.Continue reading “This Gilded Age created the pool of desperate children on whom predators prey”

by Lilo H. Stainton, New Jersey Monitor Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s first budget plan includes funding to expand New Jersey’s universal home nurse program for new moms and babies to all 21 counties in early 2027, meeting a goal set by her predecessor’s administration. The $60.7 billion proposal Sherrill unveiled last week includes $12.8 million for FamilyContinue reading “Gov. Sherrill aims to fund home nurse visits for newborns, moms in all 21 counties”

The sainthood of Cesar Chavez, carefully constructed over decades and sealed with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, lies in ruins this morning. An investigation by The New York Times has pulled back the curtain on the private man behind the public icon, and the picture that emerges is not one of a saint, but ofContinue reading “Paragon in Public, Predator in Private: Cesar Chavez sexual abuse revealed”

There is a sickness in the American mind, a willful forgetting of what is true and what is not. It did not begin yesterday, nor with the last election, but it has found its most potent vessel in the former president, a man who treats truth as a negotiable commodity. An apocryphal quote often attributedContinue reading “The sickness in America is that Trump’s supporters don’t know they have been duped”

There is a spectacle playing out in the halls of power that would have once seemed beneath the dignity of a republic, yet here we are, watching it unfold. The rock band Pearl Jam, veterans of a thousand stages and witnesses to decades of American life, has stepped into the arena not to sing, butContinue reading “Pearl Jam slam: Rock band urges fans to call senators in opposition to voting bill”

President Donald Trump’s war against Iran has set off an economic chain reaction so severe that the United States has been forced to abandon a core pillar of its foreign policy: the crippling of Russia’s war machine. With global oil prices spiraling past $100 a barrel after Tehran choked the Strait of Hormuz, the WhiteContinue reading “Trump sending another 2,500 Marines & 3 more warships to the Middle East”

March 17, 2026, marks the 80th anniversary of a pivotal moment in American history and professional sports. On this day in 1946, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Montreal Royals, the minor league affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first Black player to compete in organized professional baseball in the modern era. ThisContinue reading “March 17, 2026, marks 80 years since Jackie Robinson overcame racial segregation”

The Republican Party controls every lever of power in this coastal township of 95,000 souls. You would hardly know it watching them try to govern. What has unfolded here over the past year is not merely political disagreement but a full-blown civil war, complete with walkouts, personal insults, dueling legal opinions, and a government soContinue reading “Republican civil war paralyzes Toms River as mayor & council majority trade blows”

Some of New Jersey’s most powerful Democratic leaders are lining up behind State Sen. Joseph Cryan for re-election in 2027, offering a full-throated endorsement that places political loyalty above his documented history of ethical failings, including greed, deception, and the manipulation of public resources for personal gain. Senate President Nicholas Scutari, who leads the UnionContinue reading “Union County Democratic bosses eagerly support greedy, anti-abortion villain”

Mark Twain is often reputed to have said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” —and when it comes to American presidents declaring victory in the Middle East, the couplets are becoming embarrassingly predictable. We are witnessing the latest verse in this sorry saga: Donald Trump, airborne aboard Air Force One, declaring that IranContinue reading “Trump saying Iran is ‘essentially defeated’ is like Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’”

Governor Mikie Sherrill’s proposed $60.7 billion state budget would have very different impacts on four Union County school districts with the same legislative representation, with two seeing major funding cuts, one getting a big increase, and the other staying close to the same. Under the Fiscal Year 2027 proposal, Elizabeth schools would lose $1,616,638 inContinue reading “Sherrill budget proposes steep cuts to some of Union County’s biggest school districts”

A leading voice for government accountability issued a direct challenge to Governor Rebecca ‘Mikie’ Sherrill to repair the extensive damage done to public transparency by the administration of outgoing Governor Phil Murphy. C.J. Griffin, a lawyer who has dedicated her practice to fighting for government transparency and press freedom, presented a meticulous indictment of Murphy’sContinue reading “Lawyer challenges Sherrill to repair Murphy’s ‘fatal blows’ to public access”

President Donald Trump has removed Carrie Prejean Boller from the White House Religious Liberty Commission after she refused to support what she called the panel’s efforts to silence Jewish and Christian voices who oppose Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and reject describing all criticism of Zionism as antisemitic. The former Miss California USA — whoContinue reading “Trump ousts religious liberty commissioner for opposing Israeli genocide”

By Airman 1st Class Haeleigh Bayle The 305th Operations Support Squadron’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape team from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst led water survival readiness training alongside the 305th OSS aircrew flight equipment, 108th OSS SERE, 87th Medical Group, and U.S. Coast Guard Station Atlantic City, carrying out Exercise Neptune’s Gauntlet at USCG Station AtlanticContinue reading “Joint training strengthens water survival with preparation, partnership performance”