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View Comments Gov. Phil Murphy announced last week that the state's Turnpike Authority plans to rename the Garden State Parkway rest stops after a series of New Jersey-bred celebrities. There were plenty of names to admire. Brookdale North will be named after  Larry Doby, the first Black player in the American League who grew up in Paterson, while the name of Whitney Houston, who had Essex County roots, will replace Vauxhall. There was a predictable nod to Frank Sinatra amid some surprises. Some of my younger colleagues chastised me for not knowing Judy Blume, the popular author of youn...

In Presidential election years, New Jersey politics is usually the furthest thing from people’s minds and that is how the political machine bosses like it.

View Comments Data surveys compiled by think tanks and corporations have long shaped New Jersey's political discourse, and, to some degree, its policy. The Allied Van Lines National Migration study, which tracks the number of people who hired the company's vans to move out of state, is an annual public relations stunt that has played into the hands of critics of Gov. Phil Murphy's efforts to raise taxes on millionaires. Last September, on his third try, he finally succeeded. Critics argued that New Jersey's ignominious distinction as the state with the largest number of outward- bound mo...

By Insider NJ | May 17, 2021, 11:33 am | in Edward Edwards, News Dinner Table Democracy: A Look Back at Pasta and Politics with Nick Acocella will air on NJPBS (formerly NJTV) on June 16, 2021 at 8PM. It will be online shortly thereafter. The hour-long tribute to the show demonstrates the late N.J. legend Nick Acocella’s vision of what was so intriguing about what he lovingly described as “this thing of ours.” Using the best moments from each of the twenty-six guests’ interviews of this rare political talk show,  Dinner Table Democracy hig...

Fbi is hearing from people who say a that the mayor back at that time told them about it. that's just the first of what i'm assuming will be many leaks about this. >> absolutely. so far, the corroboration she's provided leaves quite a bit to be desired. we're talking about second hand conversations. journal entries. there's no carbon dating for these few months old journal entries. and we're also showing letters that she showed off on anderson cooper saying i'm stunned about the amount of aid that i received. i don't think it should be tied to any development projects. but all of that is comin...