Charles Stile
Political Columnist at The Record (Bergen County)
Columnist, The Record of Bergen County, NJ
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1 week ago |
northjersey.com | Charles Stile
Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka came to the brink of calling Rep. Mikie Sherrill a racist last week after she suggested that improving literacy among third graders was the key to closing the alarming disparities between Black and White residents in New Jersey. “Our congresswoman … says the wealth gap can be fixed by making sure third graders know how to read," Baraka said outside a branch of the Montclair Public Library.
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2 weeks ago |
northjersey.com | Charles Stile
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, angling to be the New Jersey Democratic Party’s torchbearer for the governor’s race this fall, torched two of his rivals — and state party leaders, for good measure. Blocks from the home of Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic congresswoman who represents the 11th Congressional District, Baraka stood Tuesday on the steps of a Montclair library to attack the putative front-runner.
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2 weeks ago |
northjersey.com | Charles Stile
Restoring the annual cost-of-living increases for New Jersey's public-sector retirees has been the subject of bold promises by some of the candidates for governor. It makes sense on a political level: The mere mention of reviving the cost-of-living-adjustment benefit — or COLA — is bound to seize the attention of thousands of retirees who haven’t had an increase in their pension checks since 2011, the year that Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a draconian set of benefit cuts.
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3 weeks ago |
northjersey.com | Charles Stile
“Affordability” is the rallying cry of both major political parties this year. For New Jersey Republicans, affordability — the amorphous promise to make life cheaper and more manageable by lowering taxes and general expenses, all while sounding empathetic — was to be the key that would unlock them from nearly two decades of time served in the prison of Trenton irrelevance.
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1 month ago |
northjersey.com | Charles Stile
The Trump administration has set up a reality TV show soundstage in downtown Newark — and without being lured here by the promise of generous tax credits. Alina Habba, the Trump lawyer who was dispatched from D.C. to be the interim United States attorney for New Jersey, gave a preview late last week of what can be expected in the coming months from the seventh floor of the Peter J. Rodino Federal Building on Broad Street.
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