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Caliguire slate wins Bergen GOP primary for county offices

June 7, 2022 11:31 pm

The New Jersey Globe projects that perennial candidate and former Freeholder Todd Caliguire has defeated Fort Lee realtor Linda Barba in the primary for Bergen County Executive. As of 11:28 p.m., Caliguire had 60% of the vote to Barba’s 40%....

The O’Toole Chronicles: The Dunning-Kruger Effect

May 31, 2022 12:01 amMay 31, 2022 1:40 pm

The Dunning-Kruger effect – a cognitive bias whereby with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative objective criteria or to the performance of their peers...

Caliguire faces Barba in GOP primary for Bergen County Executive

April 4, 2022 4:55 pm

Republicans will have a contested primary for Bergen County Executive, with former freeholder and perennial candidate Todd Caliguire and Fort Lee businesswoman Linda Barba facing off for the chance to take on two-term Democratic incumbent James Tedesco. Barba will run...

Bergen GOP picks Caliguire as County Executive candidate

March 23, 2022 11:55 pm

Bergen County Republicans have picked perennial candidate Todd Caliguire, who served as a freeholder in the 1990s, as their candidate for County Executive. Caliguire defeated Fort Lee realtor Linda Barba and two others to capture the GOP organization at the...

Old xenophobic mailer could haunt Caliguire bid for Bergen County Executive

March 17, 2022 2:07 amMarch 17, 2022 2:13 am

Republicans appear to have settled on perennial candidate Todd Caliguire as their pick for Bergen County Executive, but a controversial, race baiting, anti-Asian mailer from a campaign fifteen years ago might doom his candidacy. Buoyed by Jack Ciattarelli’s 47% showing...

March 12, 2022: PANYNJ Chairman Kevin O’Toole and Democratic strategist Sean Darcy

March 12, 2022 6:26 pmMarch 14, 2022 12:21 am

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Chairman Kevin O’Toole and Democratic strategist Sean Darcy joined host David Wildstein on the final episode of the New Jersey Globe Power Hour on Talk Radio 77 WABC on Saturday, March 12....

O’Toole, Darcy join Wildstein on NJ Globe Power Hour on 77 WABC

March 12, 2022 12:01 amMarch 12, 2022 6:26 pm

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Chairman Kevin O’Toole and Democratic strategist Sean Darcy will join host David Wildstein on the New Jersey Globe Power Hour on Talk Radio 77 WABC on Saturday, March 12 at 4:00 PM....