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Trailblazer: Judge Anne Thompson

January 18, 2021 12:10 amJanuary 17, 2021 2:13 pm

Anne E. Thompson is the first Black to serve as a federal district court judge from New Jersey. She was nominated to the bench by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Thompson served as a public defender and Lawrence Township municipal...

Robert Klein, LBJ White House speechwriter, top aide to Gov. Hughes, dies at 89

March 7, 2020 5:46 pmMarch 7, 2020 6:50 pm

Robert R. Klein, a former White House aide during the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and a top aide to the Governor of New Jersey, died on March 3. He was 89. Klein served as an assistant and speechwriter...

Trailblazer: Judge Anne Thompson

January 20, 2020 12:54 amJanuary 20, 2020 12:46 am

Anne E. Thompson, 84, was the first African American to serve as a federal district court judge from New Jersey. She was nominated to the bench by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Thompson served as a public defender and Lawrence...

Judge in Gilmore case has seen Ocean GOP chairman before

April 3, 2019 1:31 pm

The federal judge presiding over the tax evasion trial of Ocean County Republican chairman George Gilmore is a respected longtime jurist who has seen plenty of political corruption cases during her 40 years as a U.S. District Court judge. Anne...

Trailblazer: Judge Anne Thompson

January 21, 2019 12:00 amFebruary 16, 2019 4:21 pm

Anne E. Thompson, 84, was the first African American to serve as a federal district court judge from New Jersey. She was nominated to the bench by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Thompson served as a public defender and Lawrence...

Reed Gusciora Trivia

June 30, 2018 3:14 pmJune 30, 2018 8:14 pm

Some random things about Walter Reed Gusciora: he first emerged as a formidable activist in the late 1980’s when he used his position as vice president of the Jamesburg High School student council to lead the fight against plans to...

Gusciora can last 12 hours into a shutdown

June 18, 2018 8:41 amJune 19, 2018 2:43 pm

Reed Gusciora will resign from the State Assembly until just before noon on July1, when he takes the oath of office as the new mayor of Trenton. If there is no budget deal between the Legislature and Governor Phil Murphy...