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NBC Sports
7 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Dave Klein, who covered the first 54 Super Bowls, dies at 85
Dave Klein, one of only two sportswriters to attend the first 54 Super Bowls, died Wednesday, Steve Politi of NJ Advance Media reports. Klein was 85. Klein began his career at the Star-Ledger in 1961, following in the footsteps of his father, Willie, who was the longtime sports editor at the time. His brother, Moss, joined the staff in 1972 and became the Yankees beat writer four years later. For all the big events Klein covered, he was most known for his coverage of the Giants. 'We are saddened to hear of Dave's passing,' the Giants said in a statement. 'He devoted much of his professional life to covering our organization and keeping our fans informed. Our thoughts are with Dave's family, friends and readers.' Klein was one of only 338 media members credentialed for Super Bowl I on Jan. 15, 1967, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The league honored Klein, longtime Star-Ledger columnist Jerry Izenberg and Detroit News columnist Jerry Green, n 2016 as the only three writers to cover every one of the first 50 Super Bowls. Klein finally missed a Super Bowl during the COVID season of 2020 when the Bucs beat the Chiefs in Tampa, Florida. Klein wrote 35 books, including 'The Game of Their Lives' about the 1958 NFL Championship Game.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Governor hopeful Mario Kranjac eligible for GOP primary ballot, secretary of state says
Mario Kranjac, a former Englewood Cliffs mayor, was deemed eligible for June's GOP primary for governor by Secretary of State Tahesha Way. (Governor's office photo by Dana DiFilippo) Former Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjac will be on June's GOP primary ballot despite legal claims by one of his rivals that Kranjac did not file enough signatures from eligible voters to stay in the race, Secretary of State Tahesha Way said Thursday. Way, who is also lieutenant governor, agreed with an administrative law judge who said Wednesday that Kranjac collected enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. Kranjac in a statement attacked the attempt to boot him from the race as equivalent to Democrats' efforts to keep Donald Trump from running for reelection last year. 'I never thought 'Republicans' would try to use the same left-wing lawfare tactics popularized by Adam Schiff on me and my supporters in this gubernatorial primary,' Kranjac said in a statement. Schiff is an anti-Trump U.S. senator from California. Way had until noon Thursday to certify candidates for June's primary The effort to keep Kranjac out of June's primary was launched by the campaign for Republican Bill Spadea, a former New Jersey 101.5 host who is also seeking to become our next governor. The primary is June 10 (six Democrats are vying for their party's nomination). Candidates for governor must submit petitions with signatures from 2,500 registered voters. Spadea's team said Kranjac's signatures included some from voters who are not Republicans and that some of the people who circulated the petitions from Kranjac's campaign should have been registered as Republicans at the time (they were unaffiliated and later registered with the GOP). During marathon sessions Monday and Tuesday before a judge, hundreds of Kranjac's signatures were deemed ineligible. Way said after this process, about 2,600 valid signatures remained. Spadea and Kranjac are both seeking the GOP nod for governor by labeling themselves as the most pro-Trump candidate. Kranjac often touts the Star-Ledger's coverage of him as the 'Trumpy mayor' of Englewood Cliffs, while Spadea long championed Trump's policies while he hosted his morning radio show. In his statement, Kranjac took direct aim at Spadea, calling his case 'fake and fraudulent.' 'Other opponents should take notice: I'm in this race to win,' Kranjac said. A spokesman for the Spadea campaign did not respond to requests for comment. Burlington County contractor Justin Barbera, state Sen. Jon Bramnick, and former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli round out the Republican field. Twenty-one Assembly candidates also saw their petitions challenged. Of those, seven were removed from the ballot and one had their case remanded to the Office of Administrative Law. The remaining 13 were deemed eligible for the ballot. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘Forever Trumper' ex-mayor enters GOP race for New Jersey governor
Mario Kranjac is a Republican running for governor. (Photo courtesy of Mario Kranjac) Former Englewood Cliffs mayor Mario Kranjac has entered the crowded race for the Republican nomination to become New Jersey's next governor. Kranjac, who announced his candidacy Sunday, told the New Jersey Monitor he's a 'forever Trumper' with unwavering views and a track record of winning over Democratic voters. 'As a person who's always supported President Trump, I'm not a politician who's going to look at how the wind is blowing and decide what my values and beliefs are,' he said. A venture capitalist and attorney, Kranjac was elected Englewood Cliffs mayor in 2016 — the first Republican in 40 years to win the seat in the blue-leaning borough. 'I self-imposed a two-term limit,' he said. 'Given the shape that New Jersey's in, I think any elected office should have a term (limit) attached to it. The terms may vary, but we have people who have just outstayed their welcome and not done a good job. It's good to have new people come in with new ideas.' New Jersey doesn't set term or age limits for any elected office besides the governor's office, even though such limits are popular with voters. Kranjac, making his first bid for statewide office, joins a race where nine other Republicans already have staked a claim on the seat Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, has held since 2018. Murphy's second term ends in January 2026; he's barred from seeking a third term this November. Kranjac said his top priority, if elected, would be to cut taxes 2% for each year he's governor by cutting waste, as Trump has tasked Elon Musk to do under a new, controversial Department of Government Efficiency. 'It's possible. You just got to get all the fluff out of local, county, and state government. You're seeing that happen at the federal level right now, where there's a recapture of money. We need to do the same. I'll call it the New Jersey DOGE,' he said. Such efforts are already underway in many red states. Other priorities listed on his campaign website echo policy positions of Trump and other conservatives, including securing the border, fighting crime, protecting life 'from conception until natural death,' and educating 'not indoctrinat(ing) students.' He's also not keen on state government and judges 'usurping the authority of mayors and councils and planning boards,' pointing to affordable housing requirements as an example. As Englewood Cliffs mayor, Kranjac sought to block affordable housing in his borough, which is one of the wealthiest statewide. That earned him a critical 2019 editorial in which the Star-Ledger called him a 'Trumpy mayor.' He embraced that nickname in his gubernatorial announcement, while also taking a swipe at the news outlet as 'fake news,' one of Trump's favorite insults. He doubled down on the issue during an interview with the New Jersey Monitor Monday. 'These are unfunded state mandates on municipalities to mandate an explosion of their population just under the guise of affordable housing,' he said. 'We need to make the whole state affordable and stop basically with the sham, with so much money being thrown back at developers who put it back into the politicians' hands who appoint judges who keep the whole sham going.' Kranjac pointed to a January poll that showed 47% of registered Republicans and 56% of Democrats in New Jersey remain undecided on who they'll support in the June primary, even after the declared candidates have 'spent millions of dollars and have been at this for a year or two.' As governor, Kranjac said, he would follow Trump's approach to policymaking. '(He's) a guy who basically looked at a problem and says, 'Well, what's the best things for everyone, not just for that 1 or 2% of very vocal protest group that has the media behind them, because they just want to stir the pot?'' he said. He added: 'I align with the values and beliefs that he's espousing, which is basically that we're going to return to normal. The whole country is going to return to normal. The state of New Jersey should return to normal.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
CBS News
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
"The Sopranos" featured it. Now, The Star-Ledger newspaper is stopping print editions.
Two longstanding New York City area newspapers, including one immortalized in "The Sopranos," are vanishing from newsstands, leaving Jersey City without printed news as media struggle against nationwide headwinds. Across the river from New York, the fate of New Jersey's Star-Ledger -- read by fictional mob boss Tony Soprano -- and The Jersey Journal is leaving locals without a physical paper and some journalists, paperboys and printers without jobs. The Star-Ledger is going online-only and The Jersey Journal is closing up shop altogether, reports which posts content from both, among other outlets. NJ Advance Media owns The Jersey Journal, The Star-Ledger and "I'm heartbroken," said Margaret Doman, at the foot of a cluster of mushrooming buildings in Jersey City, within eyesight of Manhattan. "I use The Jersey Journal for a lot of things -- not just to read the news, but to post information, and to get in tune with what's going on around the town," said the long-time resident and community activist. "The Jersey Journal ceasing publication is like losing an old friend," said one letter to the editor. In the thick of Journal Square, named for the daily founded in 1867, "Jersey Journal" in giant red letters adorns the building that once housed the newsroom, long since displaced. With 17 employees and fewer than 15,000 copies sold daily, The Jersey Journal could not withstand the body blow that was the closure of the printworks it shared with The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest daily, which goes all-digital this weekend. The Star-Ledger's president, Wes Turner, pointed to an op-ed on that stated the closure was forced by "rising costs, decreasing circulation and reduced demand for print." The newspaper, which featured in the iconic New Jersey mafia TV series, won the coveted Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for a series of articles on the political upheavals of then-governor Jim McGreevey. But the scoops didn't save the daily, as sales plummeted and the paper went through several rounds of painful buyouts. With the switch to all-digital, even its editorial board will be abolished, announced one of its members, Tom Moran. Local newspapers in decline across the nation The decline of the local press has been a slow, painful death across the United States. According to the latest report from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, more than one-third of newspapers -- 3,300 in all -- have gone out of print since 2005. They've been victims of declining readership and the consolidation of titles into a handful of corporate masters. "When a newspaper disappears, there's a number of tangible consequences," said the report's director, Zach Metzger. "Voter participation tends to decline. Split-ticket voting tends to decline. Incumbents are reelected more often. Rates of corruption can increase. Rates of police misconduct can increase." Fewer local papers and the domination of major national issues in the news cycle are also often given as reasons for the rampant polarization of American society between left and right. Steve Alessi, president of NJ Advance Media, wrote on that the termination of print "represents the next step into the digital future of journalism in New Jersey" and promised new investment for the website, which claims over 15 million unique monthly visitors. He touted several flagship investigative projects on political extremism, as well as mismanagement in the region's private schools, the production of podcasts, and newsletters to attract new readers. "There is still a digital divide across the country. ... My concern is for people who are not digitally acclimated, they still go to their public libraries or a newsstand to see a physical copy of the paper," said Kenneth Burns, president of New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists. "There are not a whole lot of outlets keeping tabs on local affairs already," he said, calling The Star-Ledger an "institution."
CBS News
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
"The Sopranos" featured it. Now, The Star-Ledger is stopping print editions.
Two longstanding New York City area newspapers, including one immortalized in "The Sopranos," are vanishing from newsstands, leaving Jersey City without printed news as media struggle against nationwide headwinds. Across the river from New York, the fate of New Jersey's Star-Ledger -- read by fictional mob boss Tony Soprano -- and The Jersey Journal is leaving locals without a physical paper and some journalists, paperboys and printers without jobs. The Star-Ledger is going online-only and The Jersey Journal is closing up shop altogether, reports which posts content from both, among other outlets. NJ Advance Media owns The Jersey Journal, The Star-Ledger and "I'm heartbroken," said Margaret Doman, at the foot of a cluster of mushrooming buildings in Jersey City, within eyesight of Manhattan. "I use The Jersey Journal for a lot of things -- not just to read the news, but to post information, and to get in tune with what's going on around the town," said the long-time resident and community activist. "The Jersey Journal ceasing publication is like losing an old friend," said one letter to the editor. In the thick of Journal Square, named for the daily founded in 1867, "Jersey Journal" in giant red letters adorns the building that once housed the newsroom, long since displaced. With 17 employees and fewer than 15,000 copies sold daily, The Jersey Journal could not withstand the body blow that was the closure of the printworks it shared with The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest daily, which goes all-digital this weekend. The Star-Ledger's president, Wes Turner, pointed to an op-ed on that stated the closure was forced by "rising costs, decreasing circulation and reduced demand for print." The newspaper, which featured in the iconic New Jersey mafia TV series, won the coveted Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for a series of articles on the political upheavals of then-governor Jim McGreevey. But the scoops didn't save the daily, as sales plummeted and the papere went through several rounds of painful buyouts. With the switch to all-digital, even its editorial board will be abolished, announced one of its members, Tom Moran. Local newspapers in decline across the nation The decline of the local press has been a slow, painful death across the United States. According to the latest report from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, more than one-third of newspapers -- 3,300 in all -- have gone out of print since 2005. They've been victims of declining readership and the consolidation of titles into a handful of corporate masters. "When a newspaper disappears, there's a number of tangible consequences," said the report's director, Zach Metzger. "Voter participation tends to decline. Split-ticket voting tends to decline. Incumbents are reelected more often. Rates of corruption can increase. Rates of police misconduct can increase." Fewer local papers and the domination of major national issues in the news cycle are also often given as reasons for the rampant polarization of American society between left and right. Steve Alessi, president of NJ Advance Media, wrote on that the termination of print "represents the next step into the digital future of journalism in New Jersey" and promised new investment for the website, which claims over 15 million unique monthly visitors. He touted several flagship investigative projects on political extremism, as well as mismanagement in the region's private schools, the production of podcasts, and newsletters to attract new readers. "There is still a digital divide across the country. ... My concern is for people who are not digitally acclimated, they still go to their public libraries or a newsstand to see a physical copy of the paper," said Kenneth Burns, president of New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists. "There are not a whole lot of outlets keeping tabs on local affairs already," he said, calling The Star-Ledger an "institution."
