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Rose Heck, former assemblywoman, dies at 93

March 8, 2026 7:40 pmMarch 9, 2026 2:50 pm

Rose Marie Heck, a former assemblywoman from Bergen County and a longtime mayor of Hasbrouck Heights, died on March 7. She was 93. As a legislator, Heck fiercely supported government services to assist abused women and children and tax relief...

The year the Assembly had three party switchers

October 19, 2019 4:32 pmOctober 19, 2019 4:35 pm

After Assemblywoman Arline Friscia decided to switch parties and seek re-election as a Republican in August 2003, then-Assembly Speaker Albio Sires removed her as Assembly Labor Committee Chair and replaced her with Joseph Egan, a freshman Democrat from New Brunswick....

Bryan Christiansen, former Edgewater mayor, dies at 65

August 4, 2019 1:37 pmAugust 4, 2019 1:40 pm

Bryan J. Christiansen, a former four-term mayor of Edgewater who later became the executive director of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission and nearly went to the State Assembly, has died. He was 65. Christiansen was 23 and the chairman of...

Battleground 2019

July 9, 2018 12:31 amJuly 9, 2018 4:08 pm

The likely best-case scenario for Republicans in 2019 is a pickup of ten Assembly seats, which would bring them to respectable and relevant 36 seats hearing into the second half of Gov. Phil Murphy’s term – and into legislative redistricting. ...