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Voting Problems Reported In Newark During 2021 Primary Election - Newark, NJ - "I went to my Newark polling place on Tuesday morning to cast my ballot, only to find that there were no voting machines available." ....
So you think New Jersey is a bastion of progressiveness? Gov. Phil Murphy seems to regularly channel his inner Bernie Sanders. Democrats control the state’s most populated counties, not to mention both houses in the state Legislature, both seats in the U.S. Senate and 10 of the 12 House districts. The Republican Party of Tom Kean and Christine Todd Whitman should consider applying for refugee status. But look again. Despite Murphy’s best intentions and the uber-grip of Democrats on political power, New Jersey has a long way to go. If you peel back the gauzy Garden State version of Democratic wallpaper, you see a very different New Jersey. Yes, our leaders increasingly speak like progressives. But cold, hard economic data tells a story of a deeply segregated state. ....
WASHINGTON Kristen Clarke was looking for a new athletic challenge during her junior year in high school. Girls’ basketball didn’t interest her because she couldn’t dribble. Girls’ ice hockey? She didn’t skate. Volleyball didn’t seem intense enough. Then she recalled how hard the boys’ wrestling team worked out. They ran until they sweated off enough pounds to make a weight class. They lifted weights. They left practice exhausted. So, in an audacious move for the early 1990s, Clarke joined the boys’ team. “They were giving it everything. If she was going to do a winter sport, she said, ‘might as well do the most difficult one,’” recalled Window Snyder, a friend and classmate of Clarke’s at the prestigious Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut. “I don’t think she ever even thought about it being a boys’ sport. That is who she was. Whatever she was doing had to be challenging.” ....