Alfred Driscoll Archives - New Jersey Globe

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 21, 2022 12:20 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:26 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line in the 2020 New...

N.J. Judiciary lacks diversity at highest levels, where 80% of appellate court judges are white

January 17, 2022 12:02 amFebruary 9, 2022 4:42 pm

The upcoming retirement of one of the state’s highest-ranking Black jurists puts Chief Justice Stuart Rabner’s record of promoting mostly white judges on display at a time when Black and Hispanic leaders are upset that the state’s top three posts...

N.J. Judiciary lacks diversity at highest levels, where 80% of appellate court judges are white

November 15, 2021 12:01 amNovember 15, 2021 10:34 pm

The upcoming retirement of one of the state’s highest-ranking Black jurists puts Chief Justice Stuart Rabner’s record of promoting mostly white judges on display at a time when Black and Hispanic leaders are upset that the state’s top three posts...

Phil Murphy’s Curse of the Bambino

October 11, 2021 12:50 pmOctober 20, 2021 6:32 pm

Baseball loyalties come up in Jack Ciattarelli’s stump speech as the Republican gubernatorial nominee likes to remind voters that while he’s a hardcore New York Yankees fan while Gov. Phil Murphy roots for the Boston Red Sox. Murphy hasn’t shied...

Labor Leader: ex-Yankees pitcher later served as N.J. Commissioner of Labor

September 6, 2021 12:07 amSeptember 6, 2021 12:14 am

Before Bill Bradley, there was Harry C. Harper. Known as “Hackensack Harry,” Harper spent ten seasons as a major league baseball pitcher. The big left-hander was the starting pitcher for the New York Yankees game six of the 1921 World...

Labor Leader: Carl Holderman was a founder of the CIO

September 6, 2021 12:06 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:34 pm

New Jerseyan Carl Holderman (1894-1959) was one of the founders of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1934 and spent more than five years in Gov. Robert Meyner’s cabinet. Among Holderman’s lasting legacies in New Jersey: he was among...

Five N.J. governors have avoided re-election primaries and Murphy is one of them

June 6, 2021 10:34 pm

Seeking to become the first Democratic governor to win a second term in 44 years, Gov. Phil is expected to get more than 99% of the primary election vote on Tuesday – with only a handful of write-in votes stopping...