Fred Snowflack

"Are you OK Tom? Are you curled up in a ball?" So asked Maher, a Bergen County native, while an unflattering photo of the absent congressman was displayed behind him.

It really is hard for anyone to defend the practice of, say, a deli adding a five percent credit card charge or an apartment owner charging $40 to clean out a refrigerator.

It was 90 minutes before match time and I found myself walking across an empty parking lot outside MetLife at the World Cup.

Yet, there are still issues bobbing up and down that have more to do with basic human needs than the polarization of the day.

The main organizer was the Communication Workers of America, or CWA, and many attendees proved that point by wearing their red CWA T-shirts. But many other unions were involved, including the AFL-CIO and the NJEA.

By Fred Snowflack | June 22, 2026, 9:41 am | in News The county has about 100,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats, making it the largest GOP redoubt in the state.

In anticipation of Tom Kean Jr’s expected return on June 30, Politico observed Monday that the congressman is likely to get more attention than he’s ever gotten before. Few would argue with that. And it begs the question, how will he handle it? It’s not an idle query, given the fact that under the best of[...]

"She goes down there. ... They light this match and pull the grenade and kind of roll it out," Hathaway said.

By Fred Snowflack | June 23, 2026, 9:58 pm | in Columnist Wyatt Earp, the Ocean County Democratic Chair, was reelected Tuesday night, defeating challenger Alison Miller.

That's to be expected. Math is math and a party so deeply in the minority is not going to have much leverage. But two other factors must be considered.