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The Road to Mike Testa

December 2, 2019 12:23 amDecember 2, 2019 2:45 pm

When Michael Testa., Jr. takes his seat in the New Jersey State Senate next week, he will become just the sixth senator to represent the 1st legislative district since it was created in 1973 when New Jersey first adopted a...

Christopher Dietz, onetime Democratic powerbroker, dies at 83

September 16, 2019 7:19 pmSeptember 16, 2019 8:33 pm

Christopher V. Dietz, a former Union County Democratic Chairman who headed the State Parole Board under Gov. Brendan Byrne, and then spent seven years as a Superior Court Judge died on September 14. He was 83. One a rising star...

Labor: How a Texas primary helped focus unions on Pete Williams

September 2, 2019 3:42 pm

New Jersey Republicans, as they frequently do, convinced themselves that they could win a U.S. Senate seat in 1970. The two-term Democratic incumbent, Harrison Williams, was facing a challenge from Republican State Chairman Nelson Gross, a former State Senator from...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 2, 2019 1:01 amSeptember 2, 2019 1:51 am

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...

Maps: Ages of New Jersey legislators

May 21, 2019 11:47 amMay 21, 2019 3:01 pm

If the New Jersey State Assembly faced the same mandatory retirement age that judges do, there would be 7 open seats in the upcoming general election. Fourteen members of the State Senate – 35% of the upper house – are...

Adrian Heffern, Asbury Park Press political columnist and statehouse editor, dies at 92

April 20, 2019 4:33 pmApril 21, 2019 9:03 pm

Adrian F. Heffern, Jr., a fabled old-school newspaper reporter and columnist who spent 45 years with the Asbury Park Press, died on April 17. He was 92. Heffern began his journalism career with WJLK, a Monmouth County-based FM radio station...

New Jersey hasn’t elected a president since 1912

April 13, 2019 11:04 am

U.S. Senator Cory Booker holds a hometown kickoff rally today to become the first New Jerseyan to win the presidency since Gov. Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Booker is one of two Bergen County native to seek the presidency next year....