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Trailblazer: Mayor Glenn Cunningham

January 16, 2023   12:01 amJanuary 15, 2023   7:47 pm
Glenn Cunningham (1943-2004) was the first and only Black to win election for mayor of Jersey City. After serving in the Marines, Cunningham began a 25-year career as a Jersey City police officer.  He retired as a captain. Cunningham began...
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Here’s what went down at the statehouse yesterday, other than the budget

June 28, 2022   4:19 pmJune 28, 2022   4:37 pm
With the budget deadline looming on Thursday, the focus in Trenton is firmly on the state budget, which was finally released and approved in committee last night after hours of waiting. But over the course of three different hours-long meetings,...
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How Sacco got to the N.J. Senate

February 24, 2022   9:02 am
When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat nearly 30 years ago, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. The incumbent in 1993 was Thomas Cowan of the Operating Engineers union,...
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Mary Manzo, whose two sons faced off in ’92 Jersey City mayor’s race, dies at 102

January 24, 2022   8:15 pm
Mary Manzo, who was forced to choose between two sons running against each other for mayor of Jersey City in 1992, died on January 19.  She was 102. Her two sons, Hudson County Freeholder Louis Manzo and former Jersey City...
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Trailblazer: Mayor Glenn Cunningham

January 17, 2022   12:05 amJanuary 16, 2022   3:45 pm
Glenn Cunningham (1943-2004) was the first and only Black to win election for mayor of Jersey City. After serving in the Marines, Cunningham began a 25-year career as a Jersey City police officer.  He retired as a captain. Cunningham began...
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Trailblazer: Mayor Glenn Cunningham

January 18, 2021   12:04 amJanuary 17, 2021   2:01 pm
Glenn Cunningham (1943-2004) was the first and only Black to win election for mayor of Jersey City. After serving in the Marines, Cunningham began a 25-year career as a Jersey City police officer.  He retired as a captain. Cunningham began...
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Viola Richardson, former Jersey City councilwoman, dies of COVID-19

April 11, 2020   2:55 pmApril 11, 2020   3:27 pm
Viola Richardson, a longtime fixture in Jersey City politics and a popular three-term city councilwoman, died on Friday evening of a coronavirus-related illness.  She was 74. “I served with her for eight years on the City Council and she defined...
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