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Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 5, 2022 12:09 amSeptember 4, 2022 3:40 pm

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 6, 2021 12:08 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:41 pm

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 7, 2020 12:04 amSeptember 6, 2020 12:24 am

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

Happy Birthday, Jim Florio

August 29, 2020 8:16 pmAugust 30, 2020 12:02 am

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...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Kean Court

June 7, 2020 10:05 pmJune 7, 2020 11:02 pm

Brendan Byrne’s Supreme Court makeover — a Chief Justice and three younger than usual Associate Justices — plus William Cahill’s pick of 49-year-old Robert Clifford — meant that Gov. Thomas Kean would get to name only two Supreme Court Justices...

Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 2, 2019 1:04 amSeptember 1, 2019 11:58 pm

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

Senator Alene Ammond, the Terror of Trenton, dies at 86

June 13, 2019 4:04 pmJune 14, 2019 7:33 am

Alene Ammond, known as the “Terror of Trenton” during her four years representing Camden County in the New Jersey State Senate, has died. She was 86. Ammond, a 40-year-old Cherry Hill activist, was elected to the Senate in 1973 to...