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The history of special elections in the 25th district

September 26, 2019 6:55 amSeptember 26, 2019 12:00 pm

The November special election convention to fill the late Senator Anthony R. Bucco’s seat will be the third since the district was created for the 1973 election. That number could reach four, if Anthony M. Bucco gets the chance to...

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...

Poll: New Jersey moves past some gender stereotypes

August 6, 2019 12:01 amAugust 5, 2019 8:31 pm

New Jerseyans think women as more emotional (64%-3%) and view men as more aggressive (53%-9%), a new poll from Rutgers-Eagleton/Fairleigh Dickson University says, although many other opinions on gender have evolved. “The endurance of gender trait stereotypes has consequences in...

Pete Dawkins, once GOP dream candidate, gets married

July 14, 2019 8:17 pmJuly 15, 2019 11:55 am

Gen. Pete Dawkins, the 1988 Republican candidate for United States Senate against Frank Lautenberg, was married on Tuesday to Mary Martin Ourisman, the U.S. Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean under President George W. Bush. This is the second...

Some Kean for Congress history

April 16, 2019 5:47 pm

If Tom Kean, Jr. unseats Tom Malinowski next year, he’ll be the first Kean to win a congressional seat since 1956 – and the first in his family to oust an incumbent since 1938. Some Kean family history, as it...

The road to Parsippany Mayor Michael Soriano

April 1, 2019 12:15 amApril 1, 2019 1:14 pm

Decades of infighting among Parsippany Republicans led to Democratic mayors for 33 of the last 53 years in a solidly Republican town that once provided huge pluralities for GOP candidates running statewide and in Morris County. With intra-party quarrels on...

Janice Fields will run for Bernards Township Committee

February 18, 2019 10:54 amFebruary 18, 2019 2:20 pm

Somerset County Republican State Committeewoman Janice Fields has announced that she will seek be a candidate for the Bernards Township Committee when the local organization screens candidates on March 18. Mayor Carol Bianchi, a Republican, said last week that she...