Bob Peacock Archives - New Jersey Globe

A Tom Kean ‘what-if’

December 9, 2018 6:28 pmDecember 9, 2018 6:37 pm

This is one of those alternate universe stories about what might have been, had the things went a little differently in Trenton. In a redistricting deal made by the leaders of the New Jersey Legislature in 1966, one of three...

A great NJ labor union feud and the last Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race

April 22, 2018 2:51 pmApril 23, 2018 11:36 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs, labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts in...