Christine Todd Whitman Archives

Star-Ledger announces shift away from local news, acknowledges editorials ‘lean left’

May 28, 2020 11:39 amMay 28, 2020 10:22 pm

The Star-Ledger will shift their online coverage to national news stories involving President Donald Trump and political issues, their top New Jersey executive announced today. “Our focus has been intensely New Jersey, but it’s clear some of you want more...

Richard Schaub, state banking commissioner under Cahill and Byrne, dies at 88

May 16, 2020 5:35 pm

Richard F. Schaub, who served in the cabinets of Governors William Cahill and Brendan Byrne, died on May 12 after complications from surgery. He was 88. Schaub served as New Jersey Commissioner of Banking from 1972 to 1976 and was...

Green Party nominates Madelyn Hoffman for U.S. Senate

May 2, 2020 5:57 pmMay 3, 2020 7:39 pm

The Green Party of New Jersey has picked Madelyn Hoffman, a longtime environmental and social justice activist, as their candidate for U.S. Senate at their annual convention held remotely on Zoom on Saturday. Hoffman, who was unopposed, becomes the candidate...

N.J. hasn’t tossed an incumbent U.S. Senator in a general in 78 years

April 22, 2020 2:19 pmApril 22, 2020 8:39 pm

Democrat Cory Booker has some factors working for him as he seeks re-election to the United States Senate this year: strong favorables from the gold standard of independent pollsters; more than $2 million raised less than three months after ending...

Murphy is New Jersey’s most popular governor since Kean, poll shows

April 21, 2020 4:18 pm

In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Phil Murphy has become the most popular elected governor of New Jersey since Tom Kean was at 76%-6% (Rutgers-Eagleton, 10/1985) weeks before he was re-elected with 70% of the vote. Murphy’s...

Biden may have forced Murphy’s hand on Supreme Court pick

March 17, 2020 12:01 amMarch 17, 2020 12:15 pm

Joe Biden may have boxed in Gov. Phil Murphy on his first appointment to the New Jersey Supreme Court. Biden pledge to appoint the first black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court during a presidential debate on Sunday night could...

Is Ocean County a hotbed of misogyny? Look at the numbers.

March 7, 2020 12:03 pmMarch 8, 2020 4:15 pm

A vote by Ocean County Republicans to pick a man over a woman in the race for Congress this week is consistent with a track record of not running women for office over the last 100 years. The chain might...