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Renny Travisano, former Middlesex county clerk, dies at 82

June 9, 2019 1:53 pmJune 9, 2019 9:07 pm

Raniero Travisano, a popular Sayreville Democrat who served one term as Middlesex County Clerk before losing in the 1990 anti-Florio protest election, died on June 8. He was 82. Travisano was a junior high school teacher and guidance counselor when...

Death of Cochran leaves 31 living ex-Senators who served with Case

May 30, 2019 2:07 pm

There are 31 living Americans who served in the United States Senate with Clifford Case, the last Republican to win a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey. Thad Cochran, who died today at age 81, began his 40-year tenure in...

New Jersey hasn’t elected a president since 1912

April 13, 2019 11:04 am

U.S. Senator Cory Booker holds a hometown kickoff rally today to become the first New Jerseyan to win the presidency since Gov. Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Booker is one of two Bergen County native to seek the presidency next year....

Dover clerk tosses candidate for not using complete legal name

April 11, 2019 10:41 amApril 11, 2019 11:10 am

The Dover municipal clerk has tossed a candidate for alderman from the ballot because he didn’t use his full, legal name, leaving no candidate for the post in the June primary. Tara Pettoni had originally certified the nominating petition of...

The road to Parsippany Mayor Michael Soriano

April 1, 2019 12:15 amApril 1, 2019 1:14 pm

Decades of infighting among Parsippany Republicans led to Democratic mayors for 33 of the last 53 years in a solidly Republican town that once provided huge pluralities for GOP candidates running statewide and in Morris County. With intra-party quarrels on...

17th is one of eight NJ legislative districts where Dems are undefeated

March 11, 2019 12:02 amMarch 10, 2019 10:52 pm

New Jersey’s 17th legislative district has been occupied by just Democrats since the state first adopted a 40-district map in 1973. It’s one of eight districts that Republicans have never won. The New Brunswick-based district has 61,309 Democrats, 15,526 Republicans...

Booker, Menendez relationship defies modern NJ history

February 1, 2019 1:26 pm

The bromance between New Jersey’s two United States Senators is sugary and unusual in a state where Senators classically despise each other – often in a very public way. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker spent most of 2018 joined at...