Republicans appear to have settled on perennial candidate Todd Caliguire as their pick for Bergen County Executive, but a controversial, race baiting, anti-Asian mailer from a campaign fifteen years ago might doom his candidacy. Buoyed by Jack Ciattarelli’s 47% showing...
Robert P. Hollenbeck, a genial South Bergen Democrat who served six terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in the 1970s and 1980s before becoming a casualty of Gov. Tom Kean’s coattails in 1985, died on September 5. He was...
Facing a Democratic Party that has grown its strength through years of total control of government in the state’s most populous county, Bergen Republicans have backed a series of controversial candidates whose baggage could doom them at the polls in...
Louis J. Gill, a popular former assemblyman who represented parts of Passaic and Bergen counties, died today. He was 80. Gill was elected to the State Assembly in 1987 and served two terms before losing his seat in 1991 Republican...
Andrew Bertone, a former mayor of Rutherford, passed away on December 16. He was 91. Bertone enlisted in the U.S. Navy at age 17 and saw active duty in the South Pacific during World War II. He spent 30 years...
While the prospect of a wave election has some Republicans worried, Assemblyman Bob Auth (R-Old Tappan) doesn’t think it’ll stop Bergenfield Mayor Norman Schmelz from unseating Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco. “I don’t think the blue wave is all it’s...
Bergenfield Mayor Norman Schmelz will announce his candidacy for Bergen County Executive this afternoon. So far he is unopposed for the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent James Tedesco. Schmelz became mayor of the reliably Democratic town in 2013 following the...