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The Watcher: North Arlington schools want to take a building from a church using eminent domain

June 25, 2025 5:42 amJuly 13, 2025 4:31 pm

Is there such a thing as Eminence Domain? This could be the start of a joke – five school board members are standing at the pearly gates – except that the brewing legal and political battle between the North Arlington...

Happy Birthday, Nicholas Brady

April 10, 2022 12:01 amApril 10, 2022 10:57 pm

Nicholas Brady, New Jersey’s oldest-living former United States Senator, will celebrate his 92nd birthday on Monday. Brady served in the U.S. Senate for nearly nine months in 1982, following the resignation of Democrat Harrison Williams. He also served as U.S....

Mary Previte, former assemblywoman, dies at 87

November 18, 2019 11:09 amNovember 24, 2019 8:30 pm

Mary T. Previte, who served four terms as an assemblywoman from Camden County, died on November 16. She was 87. Previte had been hit by a car earlier this month. As a nine-year-old child, Previte spent more than three years...

Clifford Goldman dies

September 16, 2018 2:07 pmSeptember 18, 2018 2:02 pm

Former New Jersey State Treasurer Clifford A. Goldman, a respected public finance expert whose ability to identify weaknesses in the 1977 tax plan proposed by the Republican candidate for governor played a critical role in the re-election of Gov. Brendan...