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Tony Carabelli, 12-term Mercer County Freeholder, dies at 88

September 9, 2023 5:29 pm

Anthony P. Carabelli, a popular Democrat who spent 36 years as a Mercer County freeholder during a magnificent political career than began while John F. Kennedy was president, has died. He was 88. “Tony Carabelli was a resolute and respected...

Death of Don Young moves Chris Smith to #2 on House seniority list

March 18, 2022 10:34 pmMarch 28, 2022 2:39 pm

The death of Rep. Don Young, an Alaska Republican who served in Congress since 1973, makes Christopher Smith (R-Manchester) the second most senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Young died on Friday on a flight between Los Angeles...

Paul Sollami, 7-term Mercer County freeholder, dies at 90

July 19, 2021 9:35 amJuly 19, 2021 12:35 pm

Paul J. Sollami, a popular Mercer County political leader who served seven terms as a Mercer County Freeholder and later as a state administrative law judge, died on July 15. He was 90. He was the father of Paula Sollami...

Happy Birthday, Jim Florio

August 29, 2020 8:16 pmAugust 30, 2020 12:02 am

Happy Birthday to former Gov. Jim Florio, who turned 83 today. Florio has been a fixture in New Jersey politics since 1969, when he won a seat in the New Jersey. He spent fifteen years as a congressman from South...

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...

NJ’s history of winning the second time around

February 14, 2018 9:46 am

Jack Ciattarelli, who told the Associated Press that he expects to run for governor again in 2021, is following a familiar model of making back-to-back bids for statewide office. Ciattarelli sough the Republican nomination for governor in 2017. Tom Kean,...