Tim Eustace Archives - New Jersey Globe

Sherrill taps Jill Hirsch as Sports Authority president

January 22, 2026 11:28 amJanuary 22, 2026 5:44 pm

Jill Hirsch, a close friend of Gov. Mikie Sherrill and her longtime congressional aide, has been named president and CEO of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. “Jill Hirsch is an exceptional leader with years of experience in public service....

Healy, Schundler, nineteen other ex-mayors endorse Fulop for Governor

January 17, 2024 8:30 amJanuary 17, 2024 12:24 pm

Twenty-one former mayors from eleven New Jersey counties have endorsed Steve Fulop for the Democratic nomination for governor, including his three predecessors: Jerramiah Healy, L. Harvey Smith, and Bret Schundler, a Republican. The Healy and Schundler endorsements are symbolically significant:...

Just one state has no law to break election ties and it’s New Jersey

March 23, 2022 12:08 pm

New Jersey is the only state that doesn’t have a tie-breaking statute, so seats sit vacant until judges and county election officials can agree on a date for a do-over election that typically draws relatively few voters. In South Toms...

Old xenophobic mailer could haunt Caliguire bid for Bergen County Executive

March 17, 2022 2:07 amMarch 17, 2022 2:13 am

Republicans appear to have settled on perennial candidate Todd Caliguire as their pick for Bergen County Executive, but a controversial, race baiting, anti-Asian mailer from a campaign fifteen years ago might doom his candidacy. Buoyed by Jack Ciattarelli’s 47% showing...

Naideck leaves water commission post

December 14, 2021 8:53 pm

Lloyd Naideck has left his position as deputy executive director of the North Jersey District Water Commission to join Forge Forward, a public sector consulting company. A former chief of staff to Assemblyman John McKeon (D-West Orange), Naideck was the...

Women legislators hard-pressed to increase their numbers in 2021

August 11, 2021 11:38 amAugust 11, 2021 11:40 am

The New Jersey state legislature, where all four legislative leaders and nearly 60% of all legislators are white men, is a body that has room to grow more diverse. But based on the candidates running this November, the 2021 elections...

The Curse of the 38th is now dead

April 8, 2021 1:52 pm

There used to be something called the Curse of the 38th, a reference to six consecutive senators from the Bergen County district who found themselves tossed from the State Senate against their will. For years, the 38th was one of...