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Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 18, 2021 12:05 amJanuary 16, 2021 10:36 pm

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

John W. Noonan, assistant counsel to Gov. Meyner in 1950s, dies at 93

January 17, 2021 4:08 pm

John W. Noonan, who served as an Assistant Counsel to Gov. Robert Meyner in the 1950s, died on January 5. He was 93. Noonan joined Meyner’s staff in 1955 at age 27, after graduating Columbia University Law School and working...

Here’s how Loretta Weinberg can become Governor

January 14, 2021 5:34 pmJanuary 14, 2021 8:33 pm

There is a path for Loretta Weinberg to serve as Governor of New Jersey. Here’s how it works: if Steve Sweeney resigns as Senate President on the final day of the legislative session, the Senate can replace him with Weinberg....

Warren County has produced five nominees for statewide office

December 21, 2020 12:01 amDecember 21, 2020 1:32 pm

Warren may be the third-smallest county in New Jersey, but it has generated an outsized number of statewide candidates. The latest in Doug Steinhardt, a former mayor of Lopatcong who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor. The last governor...

New Jersey tends to elect a new governor in the year a new president takes office

December 9, 2020 1:04 pmDecember 9, 2020 7:25 pm

Newly elected presidents are almost always followed by new governors of New Jersey. Since 1953, ten new presidents saw New Jersey elect a new governor in their inauguration year, and the president saw a governor of the opposite political party...

Veterans: 17 New Jersey governors

November 11, 2020 12:04 amNovember 11, 2020 8:58 am

Seventeen of New Jersey’s 56 governors have served in the U.S. military. The last was Jon Corzine, who was in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1969 to 1975. The first governor of New Jersey, William Livingston, was a Brigadier...

Two N.J. congressmen who placed patriotism above politics

November 11, 2020 12:01 amNovember 11, 2020 8:57 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...