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The Story of Sills

October 17, 2018 1:02 amOctober 17, 2018 1:03 am

A primer on gravitas-filled Arthur J. Sills, the respected founder of Peter Verniero’s law firm, Sills Cummis & Gross and for a time one of the New Jersey’s most powerful political insiders. After Harvard Law School, Sills went to work for...

One powerful crime fighting commission not what it used to be

October 10, 2018 5:38 pm

The New Jersey State Commission of Investigation (SCI) has a party scheduled tonight to celebrate their 50th anniversary, but some believe it should be a memorial service instead. There was a time when the SCI had real teeth, back in...

Clifford Goldman dies

September 16, 2018 2:07 pmSeptember 18, 2018 2:02 pm

Former New Jersey State Treasurer Clifford A. Goldman, a respected public finance expert whose ability to identify weaknesses in the 1977 tax plan proposed by the Republican candidate for governor played a critical role in the re-election of Gov. Brendan...

Joseph W. Katz, legend in New Jersey politics, dies at 91

July 14, 2018 3:03 pmJuly 18, 2018 11:19 am

Joseph W. Katz, who was one of the New Jersey’s most powerful and widely respected political insiders for decades, passed away on Friday. He was 91. Katz became the founder of the contract lobbying business in New Jersey, single-handedly developing...

Trenton fixture Sacco dies at 81

April 5, 2018 8:37 pmApril 5, 2018 11:20 pm

Fred Sacco, well known to political insiders during his twenty years as executive vice president of the New Jersey Fuel Merchants’ Association, passed away today. He was 81. He started out in politics as a staffer on Gov. Richard Hughes’...

Murphy moves to Dad’s old office

January 9, 2018 5:33 pm

After they met in the U.S. Attorneys in the late 1930’s, Richard Hughes and Thorn Lorn became close friends, political allies and law partner. Their law offices, Lord and Hughes, were at 222 West State Street, the old Roebling Mansion,...

Evidence that Murphy isn’t superstitious

January 4, 2018 12:07 am

Phil Murphy is the first Governor to hold an inauguration day prayer service at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton since Jim Florio did it in 1990. At least he didn’t pick the Princeton University Chapel, where Jim McGreevey and...