Anthony Cucci Archives - New Jersey Globe

Trailblazer: Mayor Glenn Cunningham

January 16, 2023 12:01 amJanuary 15, 2023 7:47 pm

Glenn Cunningham (1943-2004) was the first and only Black to win election for mayor of Jersey City. After serving in the Marines, Cunningham began a 25-year career as a Jersey City police officer. He retired as a captain. Cunningham began...

How Sacco got to the N.J. Senate

February 24, 2022 9:02 am

When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat nearly 30 years ago, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. The incumbent in 1993 was Thomas Cowan of the Operating Engineers union,...

Trailblazer: Mayor Glenn Cunningham

January 17, 2022 12:05 amJanuary 16, 2022 3:45 pm

Glenn Cunningham (1943-2004) was the first and only Black to win election for mayor of Jersey City. After serving in the Marines, Cunningham began a 25-year career as a Jersey City police officer. He retired as a captain. Cunningham began...

Trailblazer: Mayor Glenn Cunningham

January 18, 2021 12:04 amJanuary 17, 2021 2:01 pm

Glenn Cunningham (1943-2004) was the first and only Black to win election for mayor of Jersey City. After serving in the Marines, Cunningham began a 25-year career as a Jersey City police officer. He retired as a captain. Cunningham began...

Trailblazer: Mayor Glenn Cunningham

January 20, 2020 12:55 amJanuary 20, 2020 12:47 am

Glenn Cunningham (1943-2004) was the first and only African American to win election for mayor of Jersey City. After serving in the Marines, Cunningham began a 25-year career as a Jersey City police officer. He retired as a captain. Cunningham...

John Sakellaris, former Jersey City deputy mayor, dies

January 13, 2019 5:20 pm

John Sakellaris, a former deputy mayor of Jersey City who raised money for numerous Democratic candidates, died on January 10. He was 75. Sakellaris had been the owner of Al’s Diner in Jersey City and the Lyndhurst Diner. He became...

The Republican screw up that made Menendez Mayor

March 13, 2018 2:02 amMarch 14, 2018 2:16 am

The success of Bob Menendez’s political career might be because of bad staff work. The story starts in 1976, when Hudson County gave Jimmy Carter a paltry 23,605 vote margin against Gerald Ford. Assembly Speaker Joseph LeFante (D-Bayonne), largely blamed...