“New Jersey — yes, New Jersey — can very soon and will very soon dethrone Nevada as the sports gaming capital of America,” Murphy told East Coast Gaming Conference and NextGen Gaming Forum in Atlantic City.

The progressives won 16 seats on the entrenched Camden County Democratic Committee and immediately challenged the current chairman, Jim Beach, with their own nominee, Susan Druckenbrod. It was a small step but launched a 10-year-or-longer plan to change the party from the inside.

DeMarco died penniless after squandering millions on an extravagant lifestyle and waging a legal battle with his brother over the family fortune. In recent years, he revealed he was gay and switched political parties.

The New Jersey task force investigating the state’s tax incentives programs said Friday it has complied with a judge’s request to postpone its proceedings until the court can review a legal challenge brought by South Jersey Democratic power broker George E. Norcross III.

Progressive Democrats in Camden County fielded dozens of candidates in last Tuesday's primary. In only one town could they claim victory over the powerful party machine led by George E. Norcross 3d: Collingswood.

Less than two months into his role at the EDA, Kevin Quinn was the only member of the board who accepted an invitation from community organizers to tour Camden on Wednesday, amid intense public scrutiny and multiple investigations of the tax break programs that the agency administers.

South Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III asked a judge on Thursday to stop a task force appointed by Gov. Phil Murphy from holding a public hearing next week on New Jersey’s tax incentive programs, saying his reputation would be “wrongfully damaged.”

“Economic growth can’t just be about helping a select few and the politically connected,” Murphy said.

Comcast was the 14th-largest federal lobbying spender. But a proposal from Friends Fiduciary Corp. a Quaker group in Philadelphia, which called for the company to disclose its local lobbying and membership in trade associations and nonprofits, was voted down.

A New Jersey legislative panel investigating Gov. Phil Murphy's handling of a sexual assault claim made by one state worker against another found the administration mishandled its response

In light voter turnout across Camden County, Democratic candidates for state and local offices easily defeated progressive challengers in Tuesday's primary. But in Collingswood, 16 progressive delegates won seats on the County Democratic Committee. The progressives backed about 100 candidates.

In one of the few contested primaries, a Trump-branded incumbent faced off against two Republicans embraced by the powerful county GOP machine.

A former Republican town committeeman in Chesterfield, Burlington County, was defeated after he lost the party's support for controversial remarks about Indian immigrants in the fast-growing municipality.