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Joseph Patero, former Assembly Labor Committee chairman, dies at 88

June 23, 2020 1:09 pmJune 23, 2020 3:38 pm

Joseph D. Patero, who served eight terms in the State Assembly and was the sponsor of landmark legislation to establish paid family leave in New Jersey, died on June 20 at his home in Manville. He was 88. He served...

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N.J. Supreme Court: The McGreevey and Corzine Courts

June 7, 2020 10:11 pmJune 7, 2020 11:20 pm

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman resigned in February 2001 to join President George W. Bush’s cabinet as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Senate President Donald DiFrancesco succeeded her as governor, but no seats on the New Jersey Supreme Court...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Whitman Court

June 7, 2020 10:08 pmJune 7, 2020 11:19 pm

By the time Tom Kean left office in January 1989, the oldest member of the New Jersey Supreme Court was Robert Clifford, who would not reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 until 1994. With no unanticipated vacancies, Gov. Jim...

N.J. Supreme Court: Alfred Driscoll’s first seven picks

June 7, 2020 9:58 pmJune 7, 2020 10:44 pm

Gov. Alfred Driscoll picked the first seven members of the New Jersey Supreme Court in late 1947, months after voters approved a new State Constitution that completely revamped an antiquated and obsolete judiciary. Since then, every governor but Richard Hughes,...

Assembly Republicans continue push against borrowing plan

June 4, 2020 11:32 am

Assembly Republicans continued to push against a borrowing plan the chamber is expected to approve Thursday, claiming Gov. Phil Murphy and the state’s Democratic lawmakers would use the bill to enact new taxes and increase existing ones. “This is a...

Murphy names retiring Superior Court Judge as new Middlesex County prosecutor

June 4, 2020 10:38 amJune 4, 2020 11:20 am

Gov. Phil Murphy has nominated former Superior Court Judge Yolanda Ciccone as the new Middlesex County Prosecutor. Ciccone, 66, is retiring after almost 29 years as a judge and will now return to the place she began her legal career:...

Veterans: 17 New Jersey governors

May 25, 2020 12:03 amMay 25, 2020 12:11 am

Seventeen of New Jersey’s 56 governors have served in the U.S. military. The last was Jon Corzine, who was in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1969 to 1975. The first governor of New Jersey, William Livingston, was a Brigadier...