NJDSC's Rob Angelo to US Dept. of Labor
(Rosi Efthim)
NJ Democratic State Party Exec. Director Rob Angelo will be leaving to become Region 2 Director for the US Dept. of Labor, the announcement to be made official later today.
2007 Newark schoolyard killings - suspect statement thrown out
(Ron C. Rice)
The statement of one of the 6 suspects in the killings of three outstanding Newark students - Terrance Aeriel, Dashon Harvey, and Iofemi Hightower - and the wounding of Terrance's sister, Natasha Aeriel has been thrown out. Gerado Gomez was 15 when he was arrested in those execution-style killings in Newark's West Ward. A state appellate court ruled today his mother was not properly informed of his Miranda rights. Essex County Prosecutor's Office says they will be appealed to the NJ Supreme Court.
If you don't live in New Jersey, you probably aren't too familiar with Bret Schundler, the state education commissioner who was fired today for botching an application form that cost the state millions in Race to the Top funding. But you were supposed to be by now.
Back in 1999, William F. Buckley Jr. declared that Schundler, a rising star on the right since his unlikely election as the mayor of Jersey City in 1992, was one to watch for the GOP's presidential nomination in 2008.
California minister Jane Spahr, 68, will face a "church trial" for performing marriage ceremonies to unite gay couples when it was legal, before Prop 8. She calls what she did an act of conscience, for which church law gave her leeway. If she loses, the Presbyterian church could defrock her.
3 Democratic mayors from Middlesex County - John McCormac (Woodbridge), Charles Butrico (S. Plainfield) & Antonia Ricigliano (Edison) - are set to endorse NJ-7 candidate Ed Potosnak this morning 10:30am at James Madison School in Edison.
Small plane carrying 8 people crashed near Dillingham in southwest Alaska. Stevens, longest-serving GOP Senator in history, is believed on board. Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe may also have been on the plane. Developing news.
Voting Rights Act - 45 years ago, today
(Rosi Efthim)
Tonight, the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama will close for a one-hour celebration to mark the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. The bridge was the setting of the Bloody Sunday massacre, where voting rights advocates, including children, were attacked and beaten by armed officers, as the marchers made their way to the state capital of Montgomery. The Voting Rights Act came 5 months later.
Which New Jerseyan Looks Slightly Vice Presidential?
(JRB)
Doug Wilder is silly for suggesting that Joe Biden be dropped from the 2012 ticket, but for speculation's sake, here are 14 people who could replace him.
The 4th female Supreme Court Justice is confirmed 63-37, including both our Senators in the affirmative. That makes 108 males to 4 females all-time, I believe.
Never-before-seen footage of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band shot in the mid-1970s reveals the creative process behind the band's fourth album, "Darkness on the Edge of Town," in Thom Zimny's "The Promise," world preeming as a Gala.
via Media Matters: Rush Limbaugh says "God and the ocean can handle the dispersants" on the use of dangerous chemicals being used in the Gulf oil spill. Here's our senator's answer back: [VIDEO]
