Nia Gill

NJ State Sens. Ed Durr and Richard Codey fended off challenges in Tuesday's primary election.

Incumbent senators Dick Codey and Nia Gill are competing to lengthen their already decades-long political careers while Ed Durr is vying to keep his seat.

"We never talk about what we saw. It's called critical stress debriefing — we don't do that, we internalize it," said Anthony Tarantino, of the Professional Firefighters Association of New Jersey.

New Jersey’s legislative district boundaries for the election of 2023 and beyond were approved Friday, a compromise map that pushes four veteran Democratic senators from North Jersey into two districts.

The positions of Senate president, Senate majority leader and Senate and Assembly minority leader each change hands for the first time in 10 years or more.

“New Jersey can set a national precedent, just as our neighboring state New York has also introduced companion legislation to end detention and ban these contracts there,” said Amy Torres, executive director of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.

Legislation that seeks to limit the use of chokeholds by police stalled in the Statehouse in the leadup to Tuesday's anniversary of George Floyd’s murder – and police reform activists were thrilled.

Rules for adult-use recreational marijuana, which voters green-lighted in a Nov. 3 referendum, now await Gov. Phil Murphy's signature.

Senate votes 29-4 to decriminalize the posession of up to 6 ounces of marijuana. Assembly schedules a Monday voting session, but no word if a vote is planned.

The latest calls for a review of New Jersey's upcoming July 7 primary election are from two Democrats, voicing concern for how the state has carried out the mostly mail-in ballot voting.