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It’s Jack and Diane: Ciattarelli picks Allen as Lt. Governor candidate

August 2, 2021 3:31 pmAugust 2, 2021 11:14 pm

Former State Sen. Diane Allen will be the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor, the New Jersey Globe has learned, with Jack Ciattarelli set to announce his choice of running mates on Wednesday at an event in Moorestown. Allen is a...

How New Jersey almost had two U.S. Attorneys following close 2001 vote

April 25, 2021 7:51 pm

As New Jersey prepares for a new U.S. Attorney and the filling of U.S. District Court Judge vacancies, there has been no talk of renewing a 20-year-old plan to break up the 21-county District of New Jersey and give South...

Joel Pisano, former federal judge, dies at 71

February 28, 2021 12:57 pm

Joel A. Pisano, a former public defender who spent 22 years as a federal judge, died on February 27. He was 71. Following his graduate from Seton Hall Law School in 1974, he went to work as a public defender...

Zimmer, former GOP congressman who endorsed Biden, will seek State Senate seat

February 1, 2021 5:01 pmFebruary 1, 2021 5:03 pm

Dick Zimmer, a 76-year-old former Republican congressman who endorsed Joe Biden for president against Donald Trump, will run for the open State Senate seat in the 16th district, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Republican leaders confirmed that Zimmer filed...

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...

Georgia Scott, first Black woman to serve as Passaic freeholder, dies at 74

August 28, 2020 2:43 pm

Georgia Scott, the first Black woman and first Democratic woman to win a seat on the Passaic County Board of Freeholders, died on August 22. She was 74. Republicans had a 7-0 majority on the freeholder board when Scott made...

Zimmer, former GOP congressman from N.J., to endorse Biden

August 24, 2020 11:07 am

Former Rep. Dick Zimmer (R-Delaware Township), a former three-term Republican congressman and the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in 1996 and 2008, will endorse Democrat Joe Biden for president today, the Biden campaign said. The Hunterdon County Republican is one...