While the official certification of election results are still a few hours away, it’s clear that Joe Biden won Morris County. Biden leads Donald Trump by 12,747 votes countywide, 51% to 47%. In 2016, Trump won it by 10,822 votes,...
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...
Michael J. Piarulli, a former Camden County freeholder and the 1966 Democratic candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 1st district, died on August 21. He was 94. He entered local politics in 1959 when he came the Camden City Solicitor...
Paul R. Porreca, a respected former Superior Court Judge who was New Jersey’ longest-living candidate for Congress, died on Friday night. He was 85. Porreca was a 27-year-old Millville city commissioner when he became the Democratic congressional candidate in 1962...
President Donald Trump named a top Republican contributor as the new Postmaster General, returning the post to a political appointee for the first time in 48 years. Post offices were once the ultimate patronage pits for political organizations, some of...
The coronavirus-related death last week of Martin S. Fox, a 95-year-old Millburn Democrat who ran for Congress against Rep. Robert W. Kean (R-Livingston) in 1952 and 1954, leaves an 85-year-old Millville man as the longest-living New Jersey congressional candidate. Paul...
A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...