William Cahill Archives - New Jersey Globe

The prescience of Bob Torricelli

August 14, 2019 12:50 pmAugust 14, 2019 4:48 pm

A victory speech delivered by Democrat Bob Torricelli on the night of his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982 looks extraordinarily prescient nearly 37 years later. “Ours is the first political party to fail to develop a...

Eugene Deutsch, Cahill administration official, dies at 90

August 3, 2019 3:13 pm

Eugene F. Deutsch, a major player in Union County politics in the 1960s and 1970s, died on August 1. He was 90. Deutsch started out in politics in 1959 when Assemblyman-elect Nelson Stamler (R-Elizabeth) named him as his legislative aide. ...

Bob Dole turns 96

July 22, 2019 9:02 pmJuly 22, 2019 10:11 pm

Bob Dole, who turned 96 today, served with 27 New Jerseyans during his 35 years in Congress — five in the Senate, where he represented Kansas from 1969 to 1996, and 22 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he...

Murphy job approvals about where Christie was at same point

June 17, 2019 9:13 amJune 17, 2019 9:22 am

As Gov. Phil Murphy approaches his mid-term election, his job approvals — 42%-32% in a new Fairleigh Dickinson University poll — are similar to those of his predecessor, Chris Christie, in June. Christie was at 44%-37% in a June 21,...

Kate Delany elected Collingswood Dem chair

June 11, 2019 8:15 pmJune 11, 2019 8:23 pm

Collingswood Democrats elected Kate Delany as the new municipal chair at their reorganization meeting Monday night, nearly a week after a group of progressive Democrats swept sixteen seats in an off-the-line race for county committee. The Democrats of Camden County...

Democrats seek to defend veto-proof majority for 1st time

June 4, 2019 10:37 am

Assembly Democrats will seek to defend – and expand – their 54 seat majority in the 2019 mid-term elections. If they hold all their seats, it will be the first time a veto-proof Democratic majority will get a third year...

Thomas Gagliano, former Senate minority leader, dies at 87

April 14, 2019 12:09 pmApril 15, 2019 12:13 pm

Former New Jersey Senate Minority Leader S. Thomas Gagliano, a popular and respected legislator who served as executive director of New Jersey Transit, died on Saturday night. He was 87. A fixture in Monmouth County politics for seven decades, Gagliano...