Carmen Orechio Archives - New Jersey Globe

They won’t ever say it, but everyone wants to be mayor of Nutley

April 18, 2024 5:05 pmApril 18, 2024 5:06 pm

The May 13 non-partisan municipal election will be a rematch of sorts, with seven candidates seeking five seats on the Township Commission – and with the usual friendly, yet underground race for mayor, a post that traditionally goes to the...

Elton Hill, top aide to Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson, dies at 89

July 17, 2020 4:53 pm

Elton E. Hill, a prominent Essex County political strategist who helped run Kenneth Gibson’s 1970 campaign to become the first Black mayor of Newark, died on July 11. He was 89. Hill and Gibson were childhood friends and he became...

The history of the New Jersey Senate Presidency

August 6, 2018 4:15 amAugust 5, 2018 11:40 pm

When New Jersey’s modern-day founding fathers created the most powerful governorship in the nation in 1947, it was based on an assumption that the old system of rotating legislative leaders would still be in effect. Today, the three separate but...

Murphy keeping Caliguire at water commission

April 16, 2018 1:09 pmApril 16, 2018 9:48 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy will keep Republican Todd Caliguire as executive director of the North Jersey Water District Water Supply Commission and is creating a new position for former Assemblyman Tim Eustace (D-Maywood) as deputy executive director at the same $174,000-a-year...

Pascrell mourns death of friend Orechio

February 26, 2018 7:14 pmFebruary 28, 2018 9:58 am

Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-Paterson) says that he is grieving the passing of his very good friend, former Senate President Carmen Orechio. Orechio died today at the age of 91. “Carmen was a great politician but an even better human...

Steve Kornacki’s 2004 Interview with Carmen Orechio

February 26, 2018 5:22 pmFebruary 28, 2018 8:55 am

Carmen Orechio’s pollution solution

February 26, 2018 3:36 pm

In 1971, Nutley Commissioner Carmen Orechio introduced New Jersey’s first pooper-scooper law requiring people clean up after their dogs. Orechio introduced the ordinance after a constituent complained about the after-effects of a dog’s call of nature on his lawn. The...