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Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, 62-year-old veteran of political hazards that include a drunken nude photo and an FBI sting, wants a third full term. Backing him are President Barack Obama and Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, seeking a second term amid record popularity for his handling of Hurricane Sandy, is on the defensive for backing Rutgers University President Robert Barchi after disclosures that the state school’s former men’s basketball coach abused his players.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie drew laughs at the Pine Brook Jewish Center in Montville last month as he explained the “ugly truth” of his 27-year marriage: His bond-trader wife is his meal ticket.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a critic of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, reversed course to seek a Medicaid expansion in his $32.9 billion spending plan proposed as he pursues re-election.
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A ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court is expected today on whether Governor Chris Christie ’s cuts to public school funding violated the state constitution and left schools underfunded by as much as $1.7 billion.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has advantages as he seeks re-election. The Republican leads his Democratic challenger by more than 40 percentage points. He’s out-raised her 10-fold. He’s even won over some members of the opposition party.
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A wide-open U.S. Senate race with no incumbent kicked off today after New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg, the chamber’s oldest member and last veteran of World War II, opted not to run again.
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Combining the two New Jersey communities that share the Princeton name is testing Governor Chris Christie’s effort to get the state’s patchwork of 566 cities and towns to merge governments.
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For two weeks after Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York and New Jersey, Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie traded business attire for crisis-mode casual as they held briefings, toured the destruction in helicopters and pushed power companies to get the lights on.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie holds his 100th town-hall meeting as he uses the gatherings to highlight the response to Hurricane Sandy that has earned him record approval ratings in a re-election year.