Robert Meyner Archives - New Jersey Globe

Ciattarelli looks to renew a New Jersey tradition: lose once, then win

January 21, 2020 4:14 pm

Former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli will formally enter the race for the 2021 Republican nomination for governor at an announcement at his old elementary school in Branchburg this afternoon. This is Ciattarelli’s second gubernatorial bid as the ex-Somerset Count legislator hopes...

Trailblazer: Justice James Coleman, Jr.

January 20, 2020 12:49 amJanuary 20, 2020 12:42 am

James H. Coleman, Jr., 85, the son of a sharecropper who was forced to attend racially segregated public schools in Lawrenceville, was the first African American to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Coleman joined the New Jersey Department...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

January 15, 2020 8:19 amJanuary 15, 2020 8:29 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will be the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line n the June...

Woodrow Wilson’s record remains intact

January 15, 2020 8:00 amJanuary 15, 2020 1:04 am

Unless John Delaney pulls off a miracle, Woodrow Wilson’s standing as the last New Jerseyan to win the presidency will remain intact. Wilson, the governor of New Jersey, was elected president in 1912. U.S. Senator Cory Booker dropped his bid...

C. Robert Sarcone, former senator and gubernatorial candidate, dies at 94

January 13, 2020 6:30 pm

Former State Sen. C. Robert Sarcone (R-Newark), the former Minority Leader of the New Jersey State Assembly and a candidate for the GOP nomination for Governor in 1977, died on January 12. He was 94. A talented trial lawyer and...

Two NJ congressmen who placed patriotism above politics

November 11, 2019 12:01 amNovember 11, 2019 12:16 am

Most people in New Jersey politics today probably never heard of Albert Vreeland or Frank Osmers, two young New Jersey Congressmen who placed patriotism above politics and the security of our nation ahead of their own political careers. Vreeland first...

Labor Leader: Louis Marciante headed the NJ AFL for 27 years

September 2, 2019 1:03 amSeptember 2, 2019 1:06 am

Louis P. Marciante (1898-1961) was the president of the New Jersey American Federal of Labor (AFL) from 1934 until his death of a heart attack at age 62 amidst a stressful merger between the AFL and the Congress of Industrial...