Bob Janiszewski Archives - New Jersey Globe

Stack launches bid for re-election in Union City

January 22, 2026 7:05 amJanuary 22, 2026 11:30 am

Brian P. Stack, the longest-serving mayor in Union City history and an old-school retail public official who shares his personal cell phone number with his constituents, will seek re-election in the May non-partisan municipal contest. “The foundation of our public...

Arango re-elected Hudson GOP Chairman

June 24, 2025 7:19 pmJune 25, 2025 1:20 pm

Hudson County GOP Chairman Jose Arango was re-elected tonight without opposition to a post he’s held since 2000. Arango, a former assemblyman, is the longest-serving Republican county chairman in the state. He first served in 1989, and again since 2000. ...

Murphy to name three new Port Authority commissioners, O’Toole to remain chairman

April 14, 2021 1:50 pmApril 17, 2021 1:01 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy will nominate three new commissioners to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as part of a deal that allows Kevin O’Toole to remain as chairman of the powerful bi-state agency. Murphy will end a...

Paul McCurrie, elected Assemblyman from Hudson in 1961, dies at 91

May 17, 2020 4:20 pmMay 19, 2020 1:27 pm

Paul J. McCurrie, who served in the New Jersey State Assembly from 1962 to 1964, died on May 15. He was 91. McCurrie was a 32-year-old attorney and U.S. Navy veteran when the Hudson County Democratic organization picked him to...

How Bob Menendez became a mayor

January 3, 2020 9:30 am

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of local government. That was in the case in Galloway on Thursday night, where a Republican township...

State chairman deal came because neither side was certain of their count

December 18, 2019 10:59 amDecember 18, 2019 5:23 pm

Neither side had enough confidence in their count to take the race for New Jersey Democratic State Chairman to a vote, so a compromise ended a year-long fight to lead what is still a deeply divided party. John Currie will...

A coup d’état in the State Assembly — and the week of five governors

August 13, 2019 1:46 amAugust 13, 2019 1:44 am

Politics stopped for a week on September 11, 2001 after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. The Republican gubernatorial candidate, former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler, was in Israel on 9/11 and unable to return to New Jersey...