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Mazzeo announces Senate bid in Atlantic County

March 1, 2021 10:30 amMarch 1, 2021 12:41 pm

Assemblyman Vince Mazzeo (D-Northfield) today launched his bid for an open State Senate seat in a politically competitive Atlantic County district, setting up what will likely be the most expensive race in New Jersey this year. Mazzeo, a proven vote-getter...

Key moment for Nixon was when 18 New Jersey Republicans bolted from Case

February 15, 2021 12:12 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:27 pm

For some time, presidential primaries in New Jersey where nothing more than beauty contests where the preferred candidate of a voter was deemed so unimportant that their names did not appear on the ballot. Instead, voters had to wrote in...

Gilliam lawyer has old Atlantic City roots

January 28, 2021 7:33 pmJanuary 28, 2021 8:00 pm

The lawyer who represented former Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam following his arrest for stealing $87,000 from a youth basketball program he ran has deep ties to Atlantic City politics; some of his relatives were loyal members of the Republican...

Trailblazer: Commissioner Horace Bryant, Sr.

January 18, 2021 12:02 amJanuary 16, 2021 10:20 pm

Horace Bryant, Jr. (1909-1983) was the first African American to serve in the cabinet of a New Jersey governor. Richard J. Hughes appointed him to serve as commissioner of Banking and Insurance in 1969. Bryant had spent over 40 years...

Rivals come together in tribute to local legend

September 9, 2020 6:52 pm

A group of Atlantic County politicians – some of whom do not like each other – came together today in tribute to the late Gerald Gormley, who served as the Hap Farley-era Atlantic County Sheriff. The Atlantic County Sheriff’s Foundation...

Cardinale endorses Pallotta for Congress

June 12, 2020 10:55 amJune 12, 2020 10:56 am

Frank Pallotta has picked up a major endorsement in his bid for the GOP congressional nomination in New Jersey’s 5th district: State Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R-Demarest), a hugely popular 12-term incumbent with an enormous following about conservative Republican primary voters....

N.J. Supreme Court: The Meyner Court

June 7, 2020 10:00 pmJune 7, 2020 10:47 pm

Gov. Robert Meyner had an opportunity to affect a complete makeover of the New Jersey Supreme Court during his two terms as governor, nominating seven justices between 1954 and 1962 on a court that had been established just six years...