Jim Florio Archives - New Jersey Globe

Mikie Sherrill is now a former congresswoman as N.J. awaits writ of special election

November 20, 2025 11:59 pmNovember 21, 2025 10:00 am

Mikie Sherrill’s resignation in the U.S. House of Representatives is now effective, leaving New Jersey’s 11th district seat vacant for the first time since Republican Dean A. Gallo (R-Parsippany) died on November 6, 1994. Sherrill filed her resignation letter on...

Veterans in New Jersey Politics

November 11, 2025 12:02 amNovember 10, 2025 9:04 pm

When Mikie Sherrill takes office in January, eighteen of New Jersey’s 57 governors will have served in the U.S. military. The last was Jon Corzine, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1969 to 1975. The first governor...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of N.J. CIO served one-term in Congress

September 1, 2025 12:11 amAugust 31, 2025 5:42 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 1, 2025 12:09 amAugust 31, 2025 5:36 pm

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

Happy 101st Birthday, Congressman Frank Guarini

August 20, 2025 12:00 amAugust 21, 2025 11:22 am

Frank J. Guarini, Jr., who served as a congressman from a Hudson County district for fourteen years, celebrates his 101st birthday today. The Jersey City Democrat is the oldest living former congressman from New Jersey, the oldest living former statewide...

Gloucester County Commissioner unexpectedly resigns

July 3, 2025 10:44 pm

Gloucester County Commissioner Denice DiCarlo has resigned, effective today. Chad Brunner, the county administrator and the Democratic county chairman, said she resigned “due to professional obligations.” She is currently the vice president of finance and accounting at Comcast; in 2020,...

Catherine Costa, former N.J. senator, dies at 99

June 27, 2025 7:42 pmJune 29, 2025 9:34 am

Catherine A. Costa, a Democrat who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature in the 1980s and was the first woman to serve on the Burlington County Board of Freeholders, died today. She was 99. The Brooklyn-born lawmaker...