James McGreevey Archives - New Jersey Globe

Oliver skeptical of Murphy approval rating

September 20, 2019 12:30 pmSeptember 20, 2019 12:45 pm

Acting Gov. Sheila Oliver eyed a Monmouth University poll released earlier this week that showed Gov. Phil Murphy’s approvals lagging behind those of some his predecessors with skepticism Friday. “The polls didn’t call my house. They didn’t call my neighbors....

Poll: Murphy approvals behind where Christie, Corzine, McGreevey were

September 17, 2019 1:22 pm

A new Monmouth University Poll show approval ratings for Gov. Phil Murphy are below where his two immediate predecessors were heading into their mid-term elections. Chris Christie was at 48%-42% in an August 2011 Monmouth poll, while another taken in...

Christopher Dietz, onetime Democratic powerbroker, dies at 83

September 16, 2019 7:19 pmSeptember 16, 2019 8:33 pm

Christopher V. Dietz, a former Union County Democratic Chairman who headed the State Parole Board under Gov. Brendan Byrne, and then spent seven years as a Superior Court Judge died on September 14. He was 83. One a rising star...

Tom DeGise staying out of Fulop ally’s BoE re-election race

September 3, 2019 2:24 pm

Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise is staying out of Jersey Board of Education President Sudhan Thomas’s re-election race. “Other than when Amy ran, I haven’t gotten involved at all in Board of Education matters. When Amy ran, I backed her....

Fulop ally appears to have signed, cashed agency checks payable to cash

August 29, 2019 1:46 pmAugust 30, 2019 11:14 am

Checks made out to cash on a Jersey City Employment and Training Program bank account appear to have been both signed and endorsed by the agency’s former chairman, Sudhan Thomas. The New Jersey Globe obtained copies of the backs of...

Fulop ally who fired McGreevey resigns

August 1, 2019 12:46 pmAugust 1, 2019 4:15 pm

Sudhan Thomas, a controversial ally of Jersey City Mayor, has resigned his post as chairman and acting executive director of the Jersey City Employment and Training Program, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Staff at the agency, which was run...

Buster Soaries to retire

July 28, 2019 9:10 pmJuly 28, 2019 9:15 pm

Rev. DeForest “Buster” Soaries, a former New Jersey Secretary of State and congressional candidate, announced today that he will retire from his position as Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Franklin. Soaries, 67, has led...