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Happy 100th Birthday to Anthony E. Russo, ex-Senator, mayor

August 7, 2026 5:10 amAugust 13, 2026 11:45 am

Former State Sen. Anthony E. Russo, who served in the legislature from 1978 to 1982 and spent 27 years as a Union Township Committeeman – ten of them as mayor — will celebrate his 100th birthday tomorrow. He is the...

2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

Catherine Costa, former N.J. senator, dies at 99

June 27, 2025 7:42 pmJune 29, 2025 9:34 am

Catherine A. Costa, a Democrat who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature in the 1980s and was the first woman to serve on the Burlington County Board of Freeholders, died today. She was 99. The Brooklyn-born lawmaker...

Menendez: More GOP sponsors for government aid bill to be announced before week’s end

May 11, 2020 3:51 pm

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez said he expects to announce additional Republican sponsors to a bill that would provide $500 billion in direct aid to state and local governments that have seen their budgets upended by the pandemic before the end...

Hugin tentatively supports Kavanaugh

October 4, 2018 9:10 pmOctober 6, 2018 4:37 pm

Bob Hugin offered tentative supported for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination Thursday night, though he said that could change if the results of the FBI investigation, which has not been released to the public and which Hugin has...

Cornelius Gallagher supports new RFK investigation

June 6, 2018 7:40 pmJune 25, 2018 4:30 pm

On a fateful evening 50 years ago today, Cornelius Gallagher sat in his office when news came in that Robert F. Kennedy had been shot by a lone gunman in the kitchen of the hotel where the U.S. Senator had...

A great NJ labor union feud and the last Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race

April 22, 2018 2:51 pmApril 23, 2018 11:36 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs, labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts in...