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Renny Travisano, former Middlesex county clerk, dies at 82

June 9, 2019 1:53 pmJune 9, 2019 9:07 pm

Raniero Travisano, a popular Sayreville Democrat who served one term as Middlesex County Clerk before losing in the 1990 anti-Florio protest election, died on June 8. He was 82. Travisano was a junior high school teacher and guidance counselor when...

America’s most senior living ex-congressman turns 98

May 27, 2019 12:01 amMay 27, 2019 10:33 am

Some South Jersey politicos may remember Harry Haskell, who represented Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives more than 60 years ago. Haskell is celebrating his 98th birthday today. Haskell has some ties to New Jersey. Haskell was a young...

Maps: Ages of New Jersey legislators

May 21, 2019 11:47 amMay 21, 2019 3:01 pm

If the New Jersey State Assembly faced the same mandatory retirement age that judges do, there would be 7 open seats in the upcoming general election. Fourteen members of the State Senate – 35% of the upper house – are...

Thomas Gagliano, former Senate minority leader, dies at 87

April 14, 2019 12:09 pmApril 15, 2019 12:13 pm

Former New Jersey Senate Minority Leader S. Thomas Gagliano, a popular and respected legislator who served as executive director of New Jersey Transit, died on Saturday night. He was 87. A fixture in Monmouth County politics for seven decades, Gagliano...

NJ Polls: Christie less popular than Nixon during Watergate

April 10, 2019 5:59 pmApril 10, 2019 6:07 pm

Chris Christie is less popular in New Jersey today than Richard Nixon was four months before he resigned the presidency. Nixon had upside-down favorables of 19%-77% in an April 1974 poll released by the Eagleton Institute of Rutgers University. He...

John Strazzullo, former Pennsauken judge and Democratic official, dies at 83

March 5, 2019 10:24 amMarch 5, 2019 10:30 am

John Strazzullo, whose election to the Pennsauken Township Committee in 1972 ended 76 years of Republican control, died on March 3. He was 83. He began his political career in 1969 as a candidate for the New Jersey State Assembly. ...

Some 1960s Bergen County political history

March 3, 2019 10:22 pmMarch 4, 2019 8:59 am

Until the U.S. Supreme Court’s one-man, one-vote ruling, Bergen County began the 1960’s with one state Senator – Walter Jones (R-Norwood) — and seven Assembly seats. Jones gave up that Senate seat after eight years in 1961 to run for...