| May Fri, 2019
It’s an honor but does New Jersey really need a state microbe?
"Some designations are tied to advocacy or awareness...But most often, Weingart said, getting a favorite flower or turtle named the state flower or turtle is basically just a good-natured civics lesson for youngsters."
| May Wed, 2019
Tea Party event seeks signatures to recall Gov. Murphy
“According to the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers, since 1900, only two U.S. governors have been voted out of office in a recall election -- Gray Davis in California in 2003 and Lynn Frazier in North Dakota in 1921.”
| May Wed, 2019
‘Being Governor Ain’t What It Used to Be’: How Their Road to the White House Became an Uphill Climb
ECAG senior scholar and Eagleton faculty Saladin Ambar spoke about governors running for president.
| March Sun, 2019
While Gov. Jay Inslee Is Out Running for President, Who’s Running the State?
“‘It’s more of a challenge for a governor than for a congressman or senator, because for a congressman or a senator there’s some expectation they’re going to spend time out of state, in Washington,’ said Kristoffer Shields, a historian at Rutgers University’s Eagleton Center on the American Governor. ‘For the governor, there’s a little bit of an expectation that he or she is going to be in the state.’”