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Re-entry commission releases sweeping report

October 22, 2019 3:56 pmOctober 22, 2019 5:20 pm

Editor’s Note: This article was updated with comment from McGreevey at 4:23 p.m. The Reentry Services Commission released a sweeping 102-page report recommending reforms to improve conditions for former offenders once they leave prison. The 14-member commission’s report focuses on...

Mel Carnahan, John Ashcroft — and Anthony M. Bucco

September 25, 2019 2:47 pm

When Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash three weeks before the 2000 General Election, he was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate against incumbent John Ashcroft in a race that pollsters said was too close to...

The switch

August 13, 2019 1:47 amAugust 13, 2019 1:44 am

Bob Torricelli, seeking re-election to a second term in the United States Senate in 2002, was severely admonished by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics on July 31 for accepting expensive gifts from one of his campaign contributors, David...

A coup d’état in the State Assembly — and the week of five governors

August 13, 2019 1:46 amAugust 13, 2019 1:44 am

Politics stopped for a week on September 11, 2001 after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. The Republican gubernatorial candidate, former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler, was in Israel on 9/11 and unable to return to New Jersey...

2001: Whitman resigns and DiFrancesco drops out

August 13, 2019 1:45 amAugust 13, 2019 1:47 am

President-elect George W. Bush announced in December 2000 that he would nominate New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman to serve in his cabinet as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Next in New Jersey’s line of succession was Senate...

The Twelve Days of Torricelli

August 13, 2019 1:44 amAugust 13, 2019 1:43 am

Woodbridge Mayor James E. McGreevey had emerged as the front-runner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. McGreevey came within 25,426 votes of ousting Whitman in 1997 and never stopped campaigning. On July 20, 2000, U.S. Senator Bob Torricelli began seeking support...

The Week Addiego Flipped

February 1, 2019 12:01 amFebruary 1, 2019 6:53 pm

Winner Losers STEVE SWEENEY & GEORGE NORCROSS STEVE FULOP Huge win for South Jersey Democrats who flipped Republican Dawn Addiego to increase Democratic Senate majority to 26-14. The Jersey City mayor tells people Jim McGreevey was fired for misappropriations of...