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Barbara Curran, former assemblywoman, dies at 81

January 29, 2022 10:28 pm

Barbara A. Curran, a former assemblywoman, Board of Public Utilities Commissioner and Superior Court Judge who became the first woman to serve in all three branches of state government, died on Saturday morning. She was 81. Curran became involved in...

New Jersey will have record number of women legislators on Monday, but only for 50 days

November 22, 2019 10:51 amNovember 22, 2019 3:58 pm

With the election of Aura Dunn to the State Assembly, Morris County now has two women legislators for the first time since 1973, when Josephine Margetts (R-New Vernon) and Ann Klein (D-Morris Township) served in the legislature. BettyLou DeCroce (R-Parsippany)...

Peggy Nelson, worked for Frelinghuysen, Morris GOP officials, dies at 78

November 3, 2019 8:54 am

Peggy Harding Nelson, a vibrant and respected political insider who served as Rodney Frelinghuysen’s district director and worked for several other prominent Morris County elected officials, died on October 25. She was 78. Nelson began working in the district office...

Bucco path to Senate is complicated

November 26, 2018 12:02 amNovember 26, 2018 8:20 am

Assemblyman Anthony M. Bucco is the Prince Charles of New Jersey politics, waiting on the sidelines for his father, Anthony R. Bucco, to abdicate his seat in the New Jersey State Senate. Now Rep.-elect Tom Malinowski might be in his way. Malinowski, a former Assistant...

Smith could seek Assembly seat

November 13, 2018 2:34 pmNovember 14, 2018 8:51 am

Morris County freeholder Deborah Smith, the top vote-getter in her re-election bid last week, has not ruled out seeking the Republican nomination for State Assembly in the 25th district next year. Twelve-term incumbent Michael Patrick Carroll (R-Morris Township) said earlier...

Sherrill backer Barbara Curran was first woman NJ GOP executive director

October 30, 2018 6:37 pm

A primer on former Assemblywoman Barbara Curran, a Republican who endorsed Democrat Mikie Sherrill for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district. Curran became involved in politics working on Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign and managed former Senate President Frank McDermott’s...

Is Bucco the Prince Charles of New Jersey politics?

August 29, 2018 8:38 pmSeptember 1, 2018 5:44 pm

Assemblyman Anthony M. Bucco is the Prince Charles of New Jersey politics, waiting on the sidelines for his father, Anthony R. Bucco, to abdicate his seat in the New Jersey State Senate. Now Tom Malinowski might get in the way....