The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...
Happy Birthday to former Gov. Jim Florio, who turned 83 today. Florio has been a fixture in New Jersey politics since 1969, when he won a seat in the New Jersey. He spent fifteen years as a congressman from South...
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...
Robert Recine, a former Rutgers football player who was left paralyzed from the neck down when he suffered a spinal cord injury during a game and later went on to serve 17 years as a New Brunswick city councilman, died...
Middlesex County Democratic Chairman Kevin McCabe, one of the most powerful people in New Jersey politics, is joining River Crossing Strategy Group as a partner heading a new public affairs division. He teams up with Eric Shuffler, a longtime New...
Van Dyke J. Pollitt, an insider’s insider who spend decades as a political operative– first as a Republican officeholder in Union County and then as a member of John Lynch’s political circle running the Middlesex County Democratic machine – died...
Arline M. Friscia, who served eight years as a New Jersey assemblywoman where she sponsored a law top expand the state’s family leave law, died on Wednesday. She was 84. In 1995, Friscia unseated Republican incumbents who had captured Middlesex...