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2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

Assembly honors former Speaker Chuck Hardwick

February 27, 2025 6:31 pm

Flags will fly at half-staff to honor Chuck Hardwick

February 26, 2025 5:40 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy today ordered U.S. and New Jersey flags will fly at half-staff on Friday in honor of Chuck Hardwick, a former Assembly Speaker who died on February 19 at age 83. “Speaker Hardwick was a dedicated public servant and a...

Chuck Hardwick, former Assembly Speaker, dies at 83

February 23, 2025 3:43 pmFebruary 26, 2025 4:19 pm

Chuck Hardwick, the Kentucky-born son of a Wonder Bread maintenance worker who became a significant force in New Jersey politics in the 1980s as the first Republican Assembly Speaker in twelve years and a candidate for governor, died on February...

Ex-Assembly Speaker endorses Ciattarelli

January 9, 2025 6:05 pmJanuary 10, 2025 10:38 am

Former Assembly Speaker Jack Collins is supporting Jack Ciattarelli for the Republican nomination for governor. “Jack Ciattarelli understands the problems facing New Jersey residents because he’s one of us – a regular, down to Earth, Jersey guy who has seen...

The O’Toole Chronicles: 40 Years

December 3, 2024 12:01 amDecember 3, 2024 11:44 am

I recently hit a milestone in my life and, frankly, I am grateful and humbled by hitting this milestone— 40 years in politics and public service. I happened to turn 60 years of age when I also celebrated my 40-year...

Hugo Pfaltz, former assemblyman, dies at 87

September 5, 2019 12:30 pmSeptember 5, 2019 2:21 pm

Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr., who was considered an intellectual giant during his two terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, died on August 31 following complications from pneumonia. He was 87. He became...