Charlie Stile Archives - New Jersey Globe

Is New Jersey about to face a reckoning over abortion access?

May 20, 2022 4:44 pmMay 24, 2022 5:53 pm

When Gov. Phil Murphy debuted his proposals for expanding abortion access in New Jersey last week, it was something of a triumphant moment for the governor and his allies. With the U.S. Supreme Court potentially prepared to overturn Roe v....

Bergen Record lets editorial page editor go

April 27, 2020 12:11 pmApril 27, 2020 2:36 pm

The (Bergen) Record today axed editorial page editor Bruce Lowry, the latest casualty in layoffs occurring throughout the Gannett organization. “Regretfully, I’ve been informed today is my last day at The Record and North Jersey.com,” Lowry said in a Twitter...

Donald Wernik, former Middlesex freeholder, Metuchen mayor, dies at 94

August 31, 2019 4:57 pmSeptember 1, 2019 5:50 pm

Donald J. Wernik, an All-State football star at Metuchen High School and World War II veteran who became a pharmacist, mayor of Metuchen and three-term Middlesex County Freeholder, died on Friday. He was 94. Wernik began in politics in an...

Phil Murphy won’t run for president

February 19, 2019 12:58 pmFebruary 19, 2019 1:03 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy isn’t joining fellow New Jerseyan U.S. Sen. Cory Booker in seeking the presidency. “Charlie, I’m not running for president by the way. I appreciate your asking that,” Murphy told Charlie Stile, a columnist for The Bergen Record,...

Jackson moving to CQ/Roll Call

January 1, 2019 5:09 pmJanuary 2, 2019 2:02 pm

Veteran New Jersey political reporter Herb Jackson will now be covering federal transportation issues for Congressional Quarterly/Roll Call, according to a post on his Facebook page. Jackson’s last day as the Washington correspondent for The (Bergen) Record is tomorrow, and...

Murphy nonplussed by increasingly public nature of budget fight

June 28, 2018 3:10 pmJune 29, 2018 4:23 pm

Gov. Murphy first learned about legislative leaders’ proposal to tax short-term rental homes during Senate President Steve Sweeney’s press conference on Wednesday. Murphy himself did not inform legislative leaders of his displeasure with the measure before telling reporters he was...