There’s an older man who shows up at Larry Wainstein’s North Bergen headquarters a few times a week. He says his name is Frank. He doesn’t use his last name. Frank seems to know a lot about local politics, and...
Albert Burstein, who died yesterday at age 96, was part of one of a great legislative leadership battle in the 1970s and a legendary Hudson County political deal that upset his chances to win a seat in Congress. Burstein was...
Former Assembly Majority Leader Albert S. Burstein, one of the most intellectually gifted legislators of his era, passed away on December 27. He was 96. A Jersey City native who had served as executive director and counsel to the Jersey...
Judge Donald Minkowitz is in no apparent rush to settle the disputed results of the June Democratic primary for Dover Alderman. He has set a trial date of September 17, the day election officials say they need to begin printing...
There’s a great, mostly-forgotten story about Byron Baer and how he came excruciatingly close to winning a congressional seat 42 years ago. The congressman from the 9th district was Henry Helstoski, a six-term Democrat with a trademark crew cut who...
The political comeback bid of Michael Wildes, the ambitious former Englewood mayor and Melania Trump’s immigration attorney, is on. Wildes, who has spent the last decade looking for a chance to run for higher office, announced today that he wants...