When the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the release of a notorious cop killer last week, the deciding vote was cast by Jose L. Fuentes, a onetime Hudson County political insider with ambitions for high public office, who is on...
There is still a path for Loretta Weinberg to serve as Governor of New Jersey. Here’s how it works: if Steve Sweeney resigns as Senate President on the final day of the legislative session, the Senate can replace him with...
Bernard Kenny, the son of former Senate Majority Leader Bernie Kenny, died on November 20. He was 36. Robert Waldron, Sr., a former Atlantic Highland councilman, died on November 12. He was 87. Waldron served in the U.S. Army during...
After Assemblywoman Arline Friscia decided to switch parties and seek re-election as a Republican in August 2003, then-Assembly Speaker Albio Sires removed her as Assembly Labor Committee Chair and replaced her with Joseph Egan, a freshman Democrat from New Brunswick....
Politics stopped for a week on September 11, 2001 after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. The Republican gubernatorial candidate, former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler, was in Israel on 9/11 and unable to return to New Jersey...
Dawn Addiego will sit with the Democrats today – her first Senate session since switching parties on Monday. Addiego’s desk on the Senate floor has been moved to the third row on the Democratic side, where she will sit between...
The New Jersey Office of Legislative Services has two days to physically move State Sen. Dawn Addiego’s desk in the New Jersey State Senate from the Republican side. Addiego now sits in one of the Republican rows in the Senate,...