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Inmates, left, and former Gov. Jim McGreevey, right, laugh as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, second right, makes a joke while answering a question at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, N.J., on May 8, 2013.
New Jersey’s Odd Couple Governors Visit Correctional Center
One reporter likened them to “The Odd Couple,” the Neil Simon creation about male roommates with opposite personalities. The setting today, though, wasn’t that pair’s roomy Manhattan apartment. It was a women’s unit at the Hudson County Correctional Center in...
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talks during a town hall meeting at Raritan Valley Community College, on April 11, 2013, in Branchburg, N.J.
Christie Kills Spider for Schoolkids, Channeling Obama’s Fly-Swatting
One of the fun parts of being governor, Chris Christie tells the schoolchildren: “Any bugs on your desk, you’re allowed to kill them without getting in trouble.” Faced with an uninvited visitor making himself comfortable in his office, the New...
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Prince Harry makes early morning checks as he sits on an Apache helicopter at the British controlled flight-line at Camp Bastion on December 12, 2012 in Afghanistan.
Prince Harry Does Jersey Shore
Prince Harry, who has demonstrated that the “what-happens-in-Vegas-stays-in-Vegas” thing doesn’t apply to a buck-naked heir to the British throne, is heading to New Jersey in May for a tour of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation. No word on whether the prince, 28,...
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Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, speaks to reporters at the Statehouse in Trenton, New Jersey.
Christie: ‘I’m the Governor’ — Stinking Basement History
New Jersey’s 200-year-old-plus statehouse has its charms. The basement is not one of them. Gov. Chris Christie, after one snootful too many of an occasional stench that evokes wet dog mixed with low tide by way of waterproof epoxy paint,...
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Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, at the Statehouse in Trenton, New Jersey, on Jan. 4, 2013.
Christie: Where in the World?
Where in the world is Chris Christie? And who is presiding over the land of his birth? The 50-year-old Republican New Jersey governor, who is running for a second term, had plans to “depart the state” the night of Jan....
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Pedestrians fill gas cans at a Sunoco Inc. station in Bloomfield, New Jersey, days after Hurricane Sandy.
Obama’s Caller ID: ‘Unknown’ — Christie’s 12 Million Gallons of Gas
Here’s hoping that we’re not revealing a sensitive national-security matter, but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie put it out there, so what the heck. When the president of the United States phones, Caller ID flashes not a name or number,...
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Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, arrives at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Super-Booker to the Twitter Rescue: ‘Cha-Cha Comes in from the Cold’
This time it was cold, not fire, threatening a Newark damsel in distress. Still, Mayor Cory Booker knew just what to do: He swept her off her four furry feet, placed her in a police cruiser and ordered the heat...
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Shoppers crowd a store at the Premium Outlet Mall in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
Unemployment 101: Professor Christie
Here’s a nightmare moment for every statehouse reporter with a college education heavy on liberal arts and light on statistics. “Explain the unemployment rate to me,” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose bombastic demeanor tends to elicit rapid compliance, said...
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President Barack Obama is greeted by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie upon arriving in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to visit areas hardest hit by Sandy.
Christie Joins Obama White House: Calling NRA Kids Ad ‘Reprehensible’
The Christie-Obama bond goes on. Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey who commended Democratic President Barack Obama for his response to Hurricane Sanday, today condemned the National Rifle Association for its ad talking about the president’s children. Christie...
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Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey: Magnet for Wall Street money. Scooper-upper of imperiled neighbor in a burning apartment. Now, filer of Federal Election Commission Form 1, “Statement of Organization,” to run for U.S. Senate in 2014. Cory Booker, 44,...
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