William Cahill Archives - Page 9 of 9

Trailblazer: Justice James Coleman, Jr.

January 21, 2019 12:00 amAugust 5, 2024 9:19 am

James H. Coleman, Jr., 85, the son of a sharecropper who was forced to attend racially segregated public schools in Virginia, was the first African American to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Coleman joined the New Jersey Department...

Andy Baglivo, former political reporter, Cahill aide, dies

December 14, 2018 2:31 pmDecember 14, 2018 3:39 pm

Angelo “Andy” Baglivo, who spent 22 years as a political reporter for the Newark Evening News before joining the administration of Gov. William Cahill as a public information officer in 1972, has died. He was 91. Baglivo accepted the Cahill...

Democrats on verge of million vote advantage

December 6, 2018 2:54 pmDecember 6, 2018 10:28 pm

New Jersey is on track to have 1 million more Democrats than Republicans in 2019, if recent voter registration trends continue. The registration gap between Democrats and Republicans right now is at 930,850. Democratic registration outpaced the GOP by 93,928...

The story of the Terror of Trenton

November 16, 2018 3:51 pmNovember 17, 2018 5:13 am

Rep.-elect Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) was anti-establishment right out of the box, including a reported fight over climate change with New Jersey’s Frank Pallone, putting the new congresswoman in the national limelight during the House freshman orientation this week in...

The history of the New Jersey Senate Presidency

August 6, 2018 4:15 amAugust 5, 2018 11:40 pm

When New Jersey’s modern-day founding fathers created the most powerful governorship in the nation in 1947, it was based on an assumption that the old system of rotating legislative leaders would still be in effect. Today, the three separate but...

Wave year elections in New Jersey

February 19, 2018 11:21 am

Two modern era wave elections happened so long ago that a comparison to New Jersey in 2018 is apples and oranges. But both are examples of highly-charged mid-term elections that allowed Democrats in the wake of the Watergate scandal to...

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...