Emil Olszowy Archives - New Jersey Globe

The more things change, the more they stay the same

July 1, 2018 1:35 pmJuly 9, 2018 4:10 pm

One more story about Emil Olszowy: after the popular 58-year-old Republican Assemblyman died of a heart attack in 1980, his obituary in The (Bergen) Record included a reference to his arrest in 1938, at age sixteen, on burglary charges. That...

A summer tax debate led to legendary one-liner

July 1, 2018 1:07 pmJuly 2, 2018 9:29 am

During the summer of 1976, the New Jersey State Assembly was holding a late-night session to debate the creation of a state income tax. Even at that hour, the Assembly chamber was uncomfortably hot after temperatures reached over 100 degrees...