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Bucco’s latest challenge: parking

September 25, 2019 8:54 pm

One thing both parties in New Jersey have in common: there’s always an issue to bitch gripe about. Sometimes the complaints are not without validity. Morris County Republicans have picked the Elks Lodge in Boonton as the site of an...

How Jon Bramnick got to the Assembly

June 16, 2019 6:20 pmJune 17, 2019 8:43 am

The unexpected resignation of a freshman state senator cleared a path for Jon Bramnick to win a seat in the New Jersey State Assembly. A switch of two votes in Union County would have sent Bramnick, now an eight-term incumbent...

In Morris, sometimes you lose before you win

February 15, 2019 4:39 pmFebruary 15, 2019 4:45 pm

The possibility of an Aura Dunn vs. Lisa Bhimani campaign for State Assembly in the 25th district this year means a match-up of two candidates who lost their first campaigns for public office. That’s the way politics works in Morris...

John Dorsey, former Senate majority leader, dead at 80

December 17, 2018 12:02 pmDecember 18, 2018 1:41 pm

John H. Dorsey, a former majority leader of the New Jersey State Senate and a powerful Republican legislator for eighteen years, passed away on Sunday. He was 80. Dorsey served in the State Assembly from 1976 to 1978, and in...

Dinsmore announces GOP endorsements

December 8, 2018 6:21 pmDecember 8, 2018 7:19 pm

Donald Dinsmore, a former Assembly staff and Christie administration official who is challenging three incumbent Morris County freeholders in the 2019 Republican primary, today announced the endorsements of 37 current and former GOP officials. The incumbents – Douglas Cabana, Kathy...

Rosemarie Totaro, Democratic Assemblywoman from Morris, dies

March 11, 2018 1:17 pmMarch 12, 2018 12:49 am

Rosemarie Totaro, a fiery moderate Democrat and self-described feminist who won two elections for the New Jersey State Assembly in a solidly Republican Morris County district, died on March 7. She was 84. Totaro caused a stir in 1978 when...