It’s 8 PM and I’m supposed to say that the polls are now closed in New Jersey, even in Cedar Grove. The primary election was supposed to be today, but in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus,...
Ronald Reagan carried New Jersey by 672,307 over Walter Mondale in 1984, 60%-39%, but his landslide win of the state’s sixteen electoral votes didn’t have much of an effect on the races for U.S. Senate and Congress. Democrat Bill Bradley...
Buena Vista Township Mayor Chuck Chiarello, who has served in local office since 1992, died on December 4. Chiarello was known statewide as the former Atlantic County Democratic Chairman and as a past president of the New Jersey League of...
When Michael Testa., Jr. takes his seat in the New Jersey State Senate next week, he will become just the sixth senator to represent the 1st legislative district since it was created in 1973 when New Jersey first adopted a...
The U.S. and New Jersey flags will be flown at half-staff in honor of former Rep. William J. Hughes, who died on Thursday. Gov. Phil Murphy issued an Executive Order today directing that all state buildings and facilities lower their...
Rep.-elect Jeff Van Drew (D-Dennis) has been assigned an office that New Jersey’s Edwin B. Forsythe occupied in the 1970’s. Van Drew will be in Room 331 of the Cannon House Office Building. Forsythe, the bow-tie wearing former New Jersey...
Rush Holt is 70 today, the 11th oldest of the nineteen living former Congressmen from New Jersey. The oldest is Cornelius Gallagher, who celebrated his 97th birthday last March. The Bayonne Democrat was first elected to Congress in 1958, making...