Alfred Beadleston Archives - New Jersey Globe

Chester Apy, former assemblyman and victim of 1960s redistricting, dies at 89

July 25, 2021 5:26 pmJuly 26, 2021 12:45 am

Chester Apy, a respected maverick Republican who represented Monmouth County in the New Jersey State Assembly in the late 1960s and early 1970s and made his mark as an advocate of tax reform – including a vote in support of...

Paul J. Smith, Union Beach mayor, dies at 66

April 30, 2020 9:50 pm

Union Beach Mayor Paul J. Smith, Jr. died today after taking a fall in his home, according to a More Monmouth Musings report. He was 66. While being treated for his fall at Riverview Medical Center, Smith went into cardiac...

Threatening to run if he didn’t get the line almost cost Howard 24 years in Congress

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmJuly 25, 2021 12:51 pm

A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...

Imagine how Loretta Weinberg would have reacted

September 2, 2018 7:17 pm

Until 1972, when a woman registered to vote in New Jersey, she had to disclose whether she was single or married. That’s when the Legislature passed a bill that would end the requirement that women identify themselves as Miss or...

The history of the New Jersey Senate Presidency

August 6, 2018 4:15 amAugust 5, 2018 11:40 pm

When New Jersey’s modern-day founding fathers created the most powerful governorship in the nation in 1947, it was based on an assumption that the old system of rotating legislative leaders would still be in effect. Today, the three separate but...