Steve Kornacki Archives

Kornacki to make Sunday Night Football debut

December 3, 2020 5:50 pm

Don’t tell Steve Kornacki to stick to sports, but don’t tell him to avoid them either. The NBC News and MSNBC national political correspondent will take a step out of his usual role of breaking down competitive elections Sunday to...

Kornacki: No other state has New Jersey’s politics

December 1, 2020 8:31 pm

Take it from Steve Kornacki: New Jersey’s politics are unique. In a virtual conversation with Rowan University’s Ben Dworkin, the NBC and MSNBC national political correspondent said the Garden State’s political landscape dwarfed even those of similarly old states. “I...

For the Kennedy’s, today is Election Day

September 1, 2020 8:53 am

Many New Jerseyans will be watching the results of today’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Massachusetts, where 74-year-old incumbent Edward Markey faces Joe Kennedy III, 39, a four-term congressman and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy. Former New Jersey political...

Jim McGreevey, Photo by Kevin Sanders for New Jersey Globe

15 years ago today, James E. McGreevey resigned as Governor of New Jersey

August 12, 2019 10:12 amAugust 12, 2019 2:04 pm

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the day that rocked New Jersey: the resignation of Governor James E. McGreevey. “At a point in every person’s life one has to look deeply into the mirror of one’s soul and decide one’s...

Peter Scarpelli, former Nutley mayor, dies at 81

January 28, 2019 5:56 pmJanuary 28, 2019 7:33 pm

Former Nutley Mayor Peter Scarpelli has passed away. He was 81. Scarpelli served as a Nutley Commissioner form 24 years. When he retired in 2004, his eat was won by his son, Joseph Scarpelli, a former Essex County freeholder. “I...

Kornacki: Alvarez investigations may become national news

December 6, 2018 10:25 pmDecember 7, 2018 11:05 am

Veteran political reporter Steve Kornacki thinks the political circumstances of the national news cycle have been kind to Gov. Phil Murphy, keeping coverage of the investigations into the administration’s hiring of Al Alvarez off of cable broadcasts. “I think, politically,...

Vote-by-Mail, provisional ballots, and a scenario that puts New Jersey under a national microscope

September 20, 2018 12:34 amSeptember 20, 2018 10:56 pm

It’s the morning after the midterm election and America wakes up to this scenario: * The United States Senate has 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans, and the margin that separates Bob Menendez and Bob Hugin is less than the total...