Herb Klein Archives - New Jersey Globe

Tom Byrne warchest at $1.3 million

April 15, 2019 12:05 amApril 15, 2019 1:04 pm

After Frank Lautenberg cited the rigors of fundraising as the reason for his February 1999 announcement that he would not seek re-election to a fourth term in the United States Senate, former New Jersey Democratic State chairman Tom Byrne was...

Bill Pascrell out as Passaic County Counsel

February 23, 2019 4:06 pmFebruary 26, 2019 9:12 am

Passaic County Freeholders are replacing Bill Pascrell III as their county counsel after 21 years, according to five sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Pascrell has served as a part-time county counsel while heading a top Trenton lobbying...

The curse of the Longworth Building

December 1, 2018 5:24 pmDecember 1, 2018 11:18 pm

Good news for Tom Malinowski and Jeff Van Drew: New Jersey congressmen who spend their first two years in the Cannon House Office Building are statistically more likely to get re-elected than freshmen who draw an office in Longworth. Fourteen...

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...