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Labor Leader: Joel Jacobson picked a public fight with Frank Sinatra

September 4, 2023   12:10 amSeptember 3, 2023   5:00 pm
One of the great New Jersey fights of the 1970s was between labor leader Joel R. Jacobson (1918-1989) and Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and Dean Martin were playing blackjack before their performance at the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City in...
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New Jersey was against Dr. King state holiday before it was for it

January 16, 2023   12:20 amJanuary 17, 2023   8:54 am
The road to establishing a legal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New Jersey was a slow one. During the final days of the 1974-75 legislative session, the Democratic-controlled State Senate rejected the idea of a...
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Labor Leader: Joel Jacobson picked a public fight with Frank Sinatra

September 5, 2022   12:15 amSeptember 8, 2022   3:47 pm
One of the great New Jersey fights of the 1970s was between labor leader Joel R. Jacobson (1918-1989) and Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and Dean Martin were playing blackjack before their performance at the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City in...
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Trailblazer: Senator Wynona Lipman

January 17, 2022   12:20 amJanuary 16, 2022   10:18 pm
Wynona M. Lipman (1923-1999) was the first African American woman to serve in the New Jersey State Senate.  She served as a Senator from 1972 until her death in 1999. Born in Georgia, she was a Fulbright scholar studying at...
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New Jersey was against Dr. King state holiday before it was for it

January 17, 2022   12:01 amJanuary 16, 2022   5:15 pm
The road to establishing a legal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New Jersey was a slow one. During the final days of the 1974-75 legislative session, the Democratic-controlled State Senate rejected the idea of a...
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Codey starts 49th year in N.J. legislature today

January 11, 2022   12:03 amJanuary 11, 2022   12:05 am
When Richard James Codey takes the oath of office at noon today, he will begin his 49th year in the New Jersey Legislature – a continuation of the record he’s held for the last eight years as the longest serving...
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N.J. State Senators more likely to die in office than win election as governor

November 21, 2021   2:33 pm
New Jersey State Senators are more likely to die in office than to use the Senate as a springboard to another elected post.  Under the current State Constitution passed in 1947, 68 sitting state senators have asked voters to promote...
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