Tom Kean Archives - Page 112 of 112

Onetime Byrne foe turned into supporter

January 7, 2018 3:41 pm

A considerate paid notice placed on the Star-Ledger obituary page is an indication of how highly even former political rivals have come to remember Brendan Byrne, the two-term Governor of New Jersey who died last Thursday at age 93. Peter...

The story of Rodney’s long and painful path to Congress

January 4, 2018 12:11 amNovember 20, 2025 8:24 pm

The most frustrating thing for Rep. Rodney Proctor Frelinghuysen has got to be that he’s reached the pinnacle of his political career, only to face the inconvenience of an election. He’s being tagged as out of touch; that’s something incumbents...

Evidence that Murphy isn’t superstitious

January 4, 2018 12:07 am

Phil Murphy is the first Governor to hold an inauguration day prayer service at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton since Jim Florio did it in 1990. At least he didn’t pick the Princeton University Chapel, where Jim McGreevey and...

The early approval ratings problem

January 4, 2018 12:06 am

Phil Murphy exudes the same kind of confidence in his own political future as most New Jersey Governors do when they’re about to take office. (One exception was pre-hubris Chris Christie, who initially believed New Jersey would only give him...