Kevin O'Toole, Author at New Jersey Globe

The O’Toole Chronicles: Intent — does it matter?

January 18, 2022 12:01 amJanuary 17, 2022 11:00 pm

Does intent matter? The quick answer for me is that sometimes intent doesn’t matter. The inevitable end of something, however tragic, due to a given intervening incident is all the same, regardless of whether therein lies intent or not. Let’s...

The O’Toole Chronicles: Welcome to the Club

January 11, 2022 12:01 amJanuary 10, 2022 12:14 pm

Today, as 5 new State Senators and 15 new Assembly Members are being sworn in, I (as a former legislator) say welcome to the club! Even in these seemingly never-ending days of the pandemic, behind the face masks and social...

The O’Toole Chronicles: Senator Loretta Weinberg – Your Impact Will Never be Forgotten

January 7, 2022 6:50 pm

This column originally appeared on January 16, 2021. In recent months, we have all followed the whispers and rumors about the Senate Majority Leader retiring from elective politics. Well, sometimes a Trenton rumor actually comes true. I have always maintained,...

The O’Toole Chronicles: See Yourself

January 4, 2022 12:01 amJanuary 4, 2022 1:08 pm

I remember taking Trial Advocacy at Seton Hall Law School with the great Professor Denis McLaughlin. This single class, in the Spring of 1988, had (and I hate this overused term) life-changing consequences. Indeed, the class changed my approach towards...

The O’Toole Chronicles: Master of the Senate

December 28, 2021 12:01 amDecember 29, 2021 9:30 am

The current New Jersey Senate President, Steve Sweeney, served an astonishing 12 years as head of the co-equal branch of government known as the Senate. Like our former 36th President of the United States, LBJ, Steve has been the Master...

ICYMI… The O’Toole Chronicles: Courage

December 24, 2021 5:08 pm

It is no secret that my Obi Wan Kenobi of politics was and is the late-master politician Stephen N. Adubato. Big Steve was well known to often lecture his political pupils with his intense Socratic methods — he would ask...

The O’Toole Chronicles: Courage

December 23, 2021 12:01 amDecember 23, 2021 12:59 pm

It is no secret that my Obi Wan Kenobi of politics was and is the late-master politician Stephen N. Adubato. Big Steve was well known to often lecture his political pupils with his intense Socratic methods — he would ask...