Gerald McCann Archives - New Jersey Globe

Trailblazer: Mayor Glenn Cunningham

January 19, 2026 12:03 amJanuary 18, 2026 10:52 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...

Elizabeth McCann, mother of an assemblywoman and a Jersey City mayor, dies at 99

January 2, 2026 2:00 pmJanuary 2, 2026 2:05 pm

Elizabeth McCann, the mother of Assemblywoman Barbara McCann Stamato and former Jersey City Mayor Gerald McCann, died on December 30. She was 99. McCann Stamato said her mother “was clear that she didn’t want to be 100.” “She didn’t want...

Arango re-elected Hudson GOP Chairman

June 24, 2025 7:19 pmJune 25, 2025 1:20 pm

Hudson County GOP Chairman Jose Arango was re-elected tonight without opposition to a post he’s held since 2000. Arango, a former assemblyman, is the longest-serving Republican county chairman in the state. He first served in 1989, and again since 2000. ...

Trailblazer: Mayor Glenn Cunningham

January 20, 2025 12:04 amJanuary 19, 2025 8:23 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...

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...

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,...

How Sacco got to the N.J. Senate

February 24, 2022 9:02 amSeptember 25, 2025 12:31 pm

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,...