Bob Dole turns 96
Bob Dole, who turned 96 today, served with 27 New Jerseyans during his 35 years in Congress — five in the Senate, where he represented Kansas from 1969 to 1996, and 22 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he...
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The fall of Harry Lerner
When longtime Essex County Democratic boss Dennis Carey retired for health reasons in 1968, County Treasurer Harry Lerner faced Hugh Addonizio, the two-term Mayor of Newark and a former seven-term congressman, for the post. Lerner, who had lost a race...
Head of tax incentives firm was a teen council candidate in Montclair
Jay C. Biggins, head of a consulting firm that helps corporations negotiate tax incentives, started out as a teenage political prodigy in Montclair. A whistleblower told the New Jersey Tax Incentive Task Force on Thursday that a consulting firm – identified...
Bob Leopold, former Livingston mayor, dies
Former Livingston mayor Robert Leopold, known for his extraordinary intelligence and a lifelong advocacy of social justice, passed away on January 12. He was 93. Leopold first sought office in 1972 as a Democratic candidate for the Livingston Township Council. Republicans...
A Tom Kean ‘what-if’
This is one of those alternate universe stories about what might have been, had the things went a little differently in Trenton. In a redistricting deal made by the leaders of the New Jersey Legislature in 1966, one of three...
Mission Impossible: The search for a GOP Senate candidate vs. Booker
Republicans will have a nearly impossible time recruiting a candidate to run against U.S. Senator Cory Booker in 2020. New Jerseyans just re-elected a senator with upside-down approvals of 36%-52%. Booker’s approvals are at 58%-37%. Their 2018 candidate, Bob Hugin...
Some history on the 11th
Tracking the lineage of New Jersey’s 11th district House seat, up for grabs this fall now that Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-Harding) is retiring after 24 years, is complicated. The current district has been Republican since 1984, when a panel of...