Christine Todd Whitman Archives

Ciattarelli looks to renew a New Jersey tradition: lose once, then win

January 21, 2020 4:14 pm

Former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli will formally enter the race for the 2021 Republican nomination for governor at an announcement at his old elementary school in Branchburg this afternoon. This is Ciattarelli’s second gubernatorial bid as the ex-Somerset Count legislator hopes...

Trailblazer: Justice James Coleman, Jr.

January 20, 2020 12:49 amJanuary 20, 2020 12:42 am

James H. Coleman, Jr., 85, the son of a sharecropper who was forced to attend racially segregated public schools in Lawrenceville, was the first African American to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Coleman joined the New Jersey Department...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

January 15, 2020 8:19 amJanuary 15, 2020 8:29 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will be the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line n the June...

Platkin resigns; Garrenger named acting chief counsel

January 14, 2020 10:55 pmJanuary 14, 2020 11:09 pm

Matt Platkin filed his resignation letter as Gov. Phil Murphy’s chief counsel today and drove to Washington after the State of the State address to begin his new job as an advisor to Cory Booker on the impeachment of President...

John Bennett ousted as Woodbridge administrator

January 2, 2020 9:38 pmJanuary 2, 2020 10:57 pm

John O. Bennett III, a former Co-Senate President who spent 3 ½ days as the governor of New Jersey in 2002, has been let go from his post as the Woodbridge Township Business Administrator, the New Jersey Globe has learned....

Murphy will get two Supreme Court nominations in 2020

January 2, 2020 2:14 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy will get to make his first appointment to the New Jersey Supreme Court later next year when Justice Walter F. Timpone reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 on November 10. Murphy must also decide if he will renominate...

Darcy Draeger is a real farmer, but Bucco attacks her anyway

October 4, 2019 2:02 amOctober 4, 2019 3:41 pm

After giving up her Wall Street career, Democratic Assembly candidate Darcy Draeger is a full-time farmer. Draeger’s small farm in rural Chester Township has 24 sheep, 15 chickens – down from 19 after an unfortunate incident with a raccoon –...