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Mejia Wins NJ 11th District Special Election by 20 Points

Analilia Mejia won the 11th Congressional District special election Thursday, defeating Republican Joe Hathaway by nearly 20 percentage points to claim the seat left open when Mikie Sherrill became governor. With 94% of the vote counted, Mejia held 77,620 votes, or 59.5%, against Hathaway's 52,122, or 40%, according to the Associated Press. She carried Essex County by more than 40 points and flipped Morris County, a longtime Republican stronghold, by roughly 8 points. She even won Hathaway's home base of Randolph. Hathaway led by less than 1% in the Passaic County portion of the district. The margin drew immediate attention from state party leaders on both sides.

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NJBPU Awards Clean Energy Grants to 19 NJ Municipalities

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities awarded grants to 19 municipalities last week under its Community Energy Plan Grant program, part of a sustained push to help local governments map out clean energy strategies and cut utility costs for residents.

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FDU Poll: NJ Voters Support Any Plan to Cut Energy Bills

Seventy-six percent of New Jersey voters want new natural gas plants built. That's not a fringe position. That's the headline number from a new Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll conducted with the International Union of Operating Engineers, and it's the kind of cross-partisan consensus that Trenton doesn't see very often.

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Business

NJ Transit's First New Multilevel III Rail Car Arrives

NJ Transit finally got something to celebrate Monday. The agency's first Multilevel III rail car rolled into the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, and for commuters who've been packing into 50-year-old equipment, it's not nothing.

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Business

NJ Drivers Pay $27 Per 1,000 Miles in Tolls, 2nd Highest in U.S.

New Jersey drivers already know the drill: merge, pay, repeat. But now there's a number attached to the pain. At $26.92 per 1,000 miles driven, New Jersey ranks second in the country for toll burden, more than three times the national average of $8.57 among toll-collecting states, according to a new study.

Jersey Ledger Staff
Politics

CD-12 Candidates Face Black Community Forum in Somerset

Candidates for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District crammed into the pews of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset last Sunday, and the pastor didn't wait for the forum to begin before drawing blood.

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