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Murphy fights racism from behind Woodrow Wilson’s desk

June 10, 2020 7:39 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy acknowledged the former President Woodrow Wilson’s troubled history on race Thursday, but he did not say whether it was reason enough to stop using the former New Jersey governor’s desk. Last week, a picture of Murphy taking...

Sudhan Thomas charged with embezzlement

January 3, 2020 11:19 pmJanuary 3, 2020 11:30 pm

Federal prosecutors charged Sudhan Thomas with embezzling more than $45,000 from the Jersey City Employment and Training Program Friday. In July, a whistleblower who had been with the JCETP for 22 years was fired from her position after reporting her...

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...