Reed Gusciora Archives - New Jersey Globe

Trailblazer: Walter Gilbert Alexander

January 18, 2021 12:17 amJanuary 17, 2021 11:30 pm

Walter Gilbert Alexander (1880-1953), the son of former slaves, was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Assembly. A Republican, he was elected in 1920. Alexander was born in Virginia in 1880. He went to college at...

Trailblazer: Senator Hutchins Inge

January 18, 2021 12:13 amJanuary 17, 2021 11:30 pm

Hutchins Inge (1900-2002) was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Senate. A Newark physician, Inge was elected to the Senate in 1965, unseated Republican Senate Minority Leader C. Robert Sarcone by 7,144 votes. The opportunity for...

Rosemarie Gusciora, former school board member, mayor’s mother, dies at 91

January 17, 2021 3:14 pm

Rosemarie Gusciora, a former Jamesburg Board of Education member and the mother of former Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora, died on January 12. She was 91. Gusciora spent 30 years as a municipal court administrator and served as president of the...

Gusciora: Law enforcement preparing for armed capitol protest

January 13, 2021 12:44 pm

Law enforcement agencies are preparing for an armed protest at New Jersey’s capitol ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora said. “Our police department is working at this moment with the N.J. State Police, the Mercer County...

Trenton property auction brings more than $4 million for hard-pressed capital city

December 10, 2020 10:29 amDecember 10, 2020 11:34 am

New Jersey’s capital city is turning to vacant and condemned property sales to shore up its budget amid a pandemic that has pushed crime up and tax collections down in Trenton. Yesterday, the city auctioned off 50 properties, each of...

Gusciora blocks measure moving Trenton’s elections to November

September 29, 2020 11:23 amSeptember 29, 2020 4:34 pm

Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora blocked a local ordinance that would have moved the capital city’s municipal elections from May to November starting in 2022 Tuesday. “While I commend City Council’s desire to improve voter participation in the Capital City, we...

Reynolds-Jackson won’t run for Trenton mayor

September 21, 2020 3:17 pm

Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D-Trenton) isn’t eying Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora’s seat, but she also stopped short of endorsing her former runningmate for another term Monday. “Me? Oh, No, no, no,” she said when asked if she would seek to oust...