Category Archives: Politics

Mayor-elect Mike Skudera, right, with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna at the KaBoom Fireworks fundraiser last month. Four years after winning a spot on the borough council, 32-year-old Mike Skudera was elected mayor of Tinton Falls yesterday in an upset...

Ledger Live host Brian Donohue again uses his hometown Red Bank as the backdrop for his daily vidpost, this one featuring him seated outside Zebu Forno as he riffs, bloggerlike, on the friction between GOP gubernatorial contenders Chris Christie and...

The three elected officials have their legislative office at 32 Monmouth Street in Red Bank. The three 12th-district state legislators plan to hold their first-ever "tele-town hall" Tuesday night. The one-hour conference call, starting at 7:20p, is being touted by...

The squad's house on Spring Street. Below, a voting district map. (Click to enlarge) Voters from two Red Bank districts will be directed to a new polling station starting with next week's school board elections following a decision by the...

Mike Halfacre at No Joe's Café in Red Bank in 2007. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre today declared his intention to run for Congress. Or did he? In an email sent today to family, friends and supporters, Halfacre says "I...

Halfacre, a triathlete, takes a breather in Red Bank after a bike ride last summer. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre appears to be tuning up for a run against 12th-district Congressman Rush Holt. He's created a political action committee known...

John Curley in his former domain, Red Bank. Former Red Bank council member John Curley is gearing up for a second run for a seat on the Monmouth County Freeholder board, a post he narrowly fell short of after a...

Gov. Jon Corzine during his budget address to the Legislature on Tuesday. (Photo by Tim Larsen) Is there a New Jerseyan anywhere who savors the words "state budget?" In these economic times, the phrase is apt to turn even the...

By SUE MORGAN With none of the intra-party divisiveness seen last month in Wall Township over a similar vote, Sea Bright officials approved Monmouth County Republican Chairman and former Sheriff Joseph Oxley (left) as borough attorney Tuesday. On a snow-driven...

Getting ready to suit up? Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre is distancing himself from a report that he's mulling a run for Congress... while at the same time admitting that he's sorta kinda thinking about it. Wally Edge, the pseudonym...

Ben Lucarelli in his office above Broad Street in Red Bank. By Sue Morgan Ben Lucarelli is one of those people who volunteers for seemingly everything. He's coached kids' soccer, lacrosse and hockey in Fair Haven, his hometown of 17...

Big Bill Morganfield performs at the 2007 Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. Which is hipper, jazz or blues? Or is it the festival itself that's 'hip?' Parking shortages. Exorbitant parking fines. Red tape at borough hall. Greedy landlords. Among...

Red Bank voters lined up at dawn on Nov. 4 to participate in the election that today puts Barack Obama in the White House as the 44th President of the United States of America. Among the one to two million...

Pilgrim Baptist aired the final McCain-Obama debate on a large screen in the worship hall in October. A live inauguration screening and luncheon will be held in the church basement. Of the many takeaways from the election of Barack Obama...

By SUE MORGAN Members of the newly-installed Republican majority in Sea Bright are hoping to land Joseph Oxley, their party's Monmouth County chairman, as borough attorney, redbankgreen has learned. If they succeed next month, it would mark the second such...

Grace Cangemi at her final appearance as a council member last night. Republican Grace Cangemi closed out her 21-month tenure on the Red Bank Council last night with pointed attacks on Democratics for "behind the curtain" decision-making. In her final...

State Senator Jennifer Beck is about to add a new line or two to her résumé. Twelfth-district state Senator Jennifer Beck has been awarded a fellowship by the Aspen Institute, where elected officials study the values and principles underlying democracy,...

Two weeks after the election, Amy Mallet of Fair Haven has won a seat on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders, tipping the majority in favor of Democrats for the first time in a generation, the Asbury Park Press...

Amy Mallet beat former Red Bank Councilman John Curley by 328 votes to give Democrats their first Monmouth County Freeholder majority since 1985, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The results won't be official until Thursday, when the county Board...

Grace Scott, left and Cionna Rosenthal of the Rumson Country Day School help homeowner Yvonne Grayson repaint her repeatedly vandalized Obama sign Sunday morning. Late last month, redbankgreen reported on a rash of Obama campaign signs being stolen and vandalized...