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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Editors prefer to wait for a crisis to cover news

Posted on 2:59 PM by Dilip walkar

A little after noon on Monday, only one clerk was available at the Hackensack Post Office on State Street (Zip Code: 07601). Later, a second clerk came on duty, but the total wait before I got to a window was about 25 minutes. I made sure I had plenty of time on the parking meter.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

The leaders of New Jersey and New York have been treating the Port Authority as their political cookie jar for decades.

But The Record has been reporting on insider deals and exorbitant payments by the Port Authority only since last September.

That's when members of Governor Christie's inner circle closed lanes on the George Washington Bridge as a form of political retribution.

Sunday's Page 1 opus on a $500,000 Port Authority payment to Santiago Calatrava for architectural plans no one asked for or used describes events dating to mid-2011.

Similarly, another front-page report on Sunday discussed the tradition of drinking at firehouses, but it took an allegedly drunk volunteer crashing a fire truck this month to get the editors' attention.

Today's lead story, reporting an $800 million New Jersey budget shortfall, can be traced to Christie's repeated vetoes of a tax surcharge on millionaires during his first term in office.

Long overdue is an examination by The Record of fiscal mismanagemt dating to the Republican admininistrations of Christine Whitman and Tom Kean.

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Monday, April 28, 2014

Reporting that doesn't speak to most readers

Posted on 8:37 AM by Dilip walkar
The NY Waterway Ferry Terminal on the West Side of Manhattan.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

Why does The Record run a Page 1 column today on what causes a tiny fraction of every 100 motor vehicle accidents?

Road Warrior John Cichowski notes the number of crashes tied to "automobile mechanical failure" declined slightly through 2012, but nearly five months into 2014, he doesn't provide any numbers for last year (A-1).

And even though he is rested from a vacation, he ignores a higher percentage of crashes tied to mechanical problems in 2012, compared to 2008.

Most accidents are caused by speeding and aggressive driving, and their number likely has risen as state police enforcement has declined.

Isn't that front-page news?

Missing information

The A-6 story on "New Jersey pilgrims" focuses on a Catholic man who lives in Bucks County, Pa.  

The reporter should have found a North Jersey resident for her lead anecdote.

Why didn't Record sports Columnist Tara Sullivan tell us something about the bimbo who is dating racist Donald Sterling, the geezer owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team (A-6)?

The young woman, identified in a photo caption as "V. Stiviano," must throw up every time Sterling touches her.

Taxing chief

Why are the Local editors so upbeat about the retirement at 45 of Fairview Police Chief Frank Del Vecchio, who was paid more than Governor Christie and who -- in an affront to taxpayers -- is cashing out $50,931 in unused sick and vacation days (L-1)? 

The Record's Better Living cover today continues the lopsided coverage of restaurants from inside the kitchen, instead of focusing on issues customers face inside the dining room, such as high prices for wine and low-quality food (BL-1).

What's the point of interviewing chefs about morels, an ingredient that is so expensive few North Jersey restaurants actually serve it?


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Sunday, April 27, 2014

I'll pass on today's ho-hum Sunday edition

Posted on 10:43 AM by Dilip walkar
Ramsey has one-third the population of Hackensack, but commuters in the affluent community are getting treated much better by NJ Transit, which beautifully restored the train station in 2005, above and below.


You can even borrow a paperback at the station.

The station as seen from Starbucks Coffee.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

The closest thing to a train station in Hackensack is a new NJ Transit building on Anderson Street.

But it doesn't have any doors, and it may more accurate to call it a train shelter.

Compare the Hackensack building to Ramsey's beautifully restored station, originally built in 1864, during the Civil War.

Although the Hackensack building opened at the end of March, The Record has ignored it.

Another NJ Transit stop in Hackensack, at Essex Street, has more parking than Anderson Street, but nothing like the new structure to shelter commuters.



The new NJ Transit structure on Anderson Street in Hackensack.


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Saturday, April 26, 2014

These editors again fail to deliver hometown news

Posted on 7:03 AM by Dilip walkar
The quality of life in North Jersey -- including aircraft noise over Hackensack and other towns near Teterboro and Newark airports, above, or gaping potholes that damage car tires and wheels -- are of no interest to the editors of The Record's Local news section who appear to spend most of their time reading tabloids in the newsroom toilet.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

I'm shocked by the amount of Law & Order news in The Record's Local section today and Friday.

Police, fire, accident and court news and photos dominate almost every page.

But readers also find stories about the police, including Friday's report on raises for the Pal Park chief and today's solemn piece on a vigil for Daniel Breslin, the hospitalized Bergen County police officer who was severely injured by an allegedly drunk driver (A-1 and L-1).

Sforza stumbles

Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza was so desperate to fill his pages today he ran a freelance shot of a Route 80 accident in Hackensack from inside the photographer's car (L-3).

Now that's chintzy hometown news coverage. Still, Sforza stands proud, shouting, Who says we don't cover Hackensack? 

Sforza's stumbling around for the last several months would seem to call for the return of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes after a prolonged convalescence.

On vacation?

When is the last time readers saw Hannan Adely's byline on a Hackensack story? Has she been reassigned, sent to cover the Syrian civil war or what?

On Friday, the weekly Hackensack Chronicle reported the City Council on Monday night approved a $760,000 bond ordinance to repave streets and perform related work.

After the meeting, resident Steven Gelber's Hackensack Scoop blog reported that Mayor John Labrosse announced former campaign manager Thom Ammirato will no longer be writing press releases for the mayor or Deputy Mayor Katherine Canestrino.

But Labrosse said Ammirato's salary of $6,500 a month wouldn't be adjusted at this time, Gelber reported.

Following Gelber's lead, Adely of The Record has reported that Ammirato also has a full-time position with Bergen County, and serves as public relations consultant to at least three Republicans in the state Legislature.

But the Woodland Park daily hasn't reported on this latest wrinkle in the Ammirato story or approval of the street-paving bond ordinance.

The woefully short list of streets listed in the Chronicle story continues to omit Euclid Avenue, between Prospect and Summit avenues, a potholed block that hasn't been repaved for decades. 



Euclid Avenue potholes, above and below.



Friday's Record

Editor Marty Gottlieb led Friday's paper with a long report on the incredible mess Governor Christie has made of road, highway and mass-transit improvements by refusing to hike the low gasoline tax to fund them.

This is basically a four-year-old story The Record has ignored until now, especially increasingly congested traffic, and crowded trains and buses.

Barf bags

In Better Living, Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung pans Port of Call American Fusion Buffet and Sushi in Hackensack.

Still, she feels it necessary to tell readers the all-you-can eat format "would be good for people with big appetites."

The data box on Friday's BL-18 lists only four recommended dishes, two of them desserts, but omits other dishes Ung praised in the text. 

Did anyone edit the piece?

Today's paper

Gottlieb's Page 1 today includes another story on the agonizingly slow investigative and legal process in the wake of January's explosive revelations in the George Washington Bridge scandal.

Since members of the GOP bully's inner circle in Trenton and at the Port Authority admitted they orchestrated four days of gridlock in Democratic Fort Lee, all readers have seen are firings and resignations, and targets lawyering up and taking the Fifth.

Christie himself hired a friendly law firm at taxpayers' expense to produce a whitewash declaring the governor had no knowledge or involvement in the lane closures.

Other stories and columns appear designed to help Christie repair his battered image (A-3).

The slow legal process is designed to ensure greedy lawyers who charge exorbitant hourly rates will walk away with literally millions of dollars in fees no matter who is found to be at fault for an apparent pattern of political retribution.

Paramus woes

Today's front page also includes a story on a "big change for Paramus," which has eased rules on retail signs along Routes 4 and 17.


This piece continues The Record's ad-fueled focus on major retail chains over Main Street merchants.

The last story on local merchants reported on a few record stores, as in those selling vinyl recordings, and continued to ignore struggling downtowns in Hackensack, Englewood, Teaneck and other towns.


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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Bergen's Keystone Kops are alive and well

Posted on 7:45 AM by Dilip walkar
More than 50 years after the invention of the turn lane, none exist on Passaic Street at Summit Avenue in Hackensack, meaning drivers behind a turning vehicle feel lucky if they can squeeze through on the right, above. Often, they can't.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

Two days after an undercover cop was shot in a Garfield pot sting that went awry, a big photo of plainclothes officers at the suspects' court hearing appears on the front page of The Record today.

Let's hope none of the cops in the photo are actually working undercover or the photo makes their future effectiveness questionable (A-1 and A-6).

Only four days earlier, Page 1 reported that a Bergen County police officer was hospitalized in critical condition after an allegedly drunk driver crashed into the back of his marked vehicle, which was stopped in the right travel lane of Route 46 in Lodi.

Good police work?

Are these two examples of misplaced police priorities, and a cop who didn't know enough to pull his vehicle onto the shoulder to avoid a drunk who used the vehicles flashing emergency lights as a target?

Even civilians know enough to pull ahead of a vehicle stopped on the shoulder of a highway to avoid just such an eventuality. 

So far, The Record hasn't reported whether the cop was following procedure.

Heroin, not pot

The Woodland Park daily also conveniently ignores its own series of stories in 2013 on a heroin epidemic in Bergen County, and four dramatic ads paid for by Prosecutor John L. Molinelli, sounding an alarm in March over the rise of opiate addiction and heroin overdoses, and announcing stepped-up enforcement.

But the undercover operation at the center of Tuesday's shooting in Garfield was a $400 purchase of marijuana, not heroin.

Is stopping the distribution of marijuana really worth endangering the lives of an undercover police officer and Walmart shoppers?

Wasting tax dollars

Boy. If you wonder why our property taxes are so high, just look at Wednesday's Page 1 photo, showing at least 18 police officers, standing around and bullshitting in the shopping center parking lot in the aftermath of the shooting.

Don't they have anything else to do, like chase the suspects? 


And I'll bet all of their marked and unmarked gas guzzlers are running, wasting precious tax dollars and polluting the air. 

Maybe some of those idle officers could be used to boost DWI patrols and catch allegedly repeat drunk drivers like Michael Ettz, the high school teacher who slammed into the county police car.


No father figure

Wednesday's front page also carried a hilarious story on Governor Christie being named "a Father of the Year by the National Father's Day Committee," whatever that is.

Melissa Hayes, the adoring reporter who is assigned to cover the GOP bully, doesn't mention the contradiction of a doting father who treats middle- and working-class state residents like dirt.


Also on Wednesday, the Better Living cover promoted the expansion of Stickey's BBQ to Hillsdale, where sauces mask the taste of mystery meat and poultry pumped full of harmful animal antibiotics.


Today's paper

Today's coverage of the court hearing for two of the three suspects in the shooting of the undercover cop includes:
  • An awkwardly written caption noting that Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg is "addressing the press," using an improper catch-all for print and electronic media (A-6). 

Dissing Hackensack

A brief on Wednesday's Hackensack school board election doesn't say how many residents voted in the election, which was ignored by The Record (L-1).

Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza couldn't rouse himself to actually ask a reporter to do a story on who was running and what they stood for, and Hackensack residents received no mailings from the candidates.

Today's brief notes the $140 million operating budget was approved, and reports for the first time a budget reduction of a half-million dollars will still result in a tax hike.

Zisa allies win

A total of 601 residents voted on the budget, less than half the number that cast votes in last year's school board election.

The four seats were won by allies of the city's former Zisa administration, including Joseph Barreto, a guidance counselor who ran unsuccessfully for City Council last May.

The highest vote-getter received 490 votes in a city with more than 19,000 registered voters.

Tabloid editor

It's clear municipal news isn't a priority for Sforza, the lazy editor who has taken over for boss Deirdre Sykes during her prolonged sick leave.

Today's Local section is filled with tabloid news, starting with the lead story on a Paterson man imprisoned for raping his daughter and fathering four children with her.

A road-rage story also appears on L-1.

And L-2 carries another sensational account, this one about a Hawthorne cardiologist accused of fondling patients.

Of course, cardiologists assigned to North Jersey heart-surgery units are cheering the news of Stickey's BBQ opening in Hillsdale, and a potential increase in patients.




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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Local obit writer expands beat to the living

Posted on 7:32 AM by Dilip walkar
On Monday afternoon, the light was green at Passaic Street and Summit Avenue, a busy intersection in Hackensack without turn lanes, but no one moved, because they were stuck behind a turning vehicle. Good luck trying to reach the Bergen County department that could do something to fix the notorious bottleneck.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

The New York World's Fair opened 50 years ago today in Queens? Who cares?

In a testament to how much newspapers love anniversaries as a way of ignoring current events, The Record's front page today carries a story about a New Milford man who is called  "a prominent collector of memorabilia from the 1964-65 exposition" (A-1).

But there's more: A long editorial on A-8 that waxes nostalgic over the smell of Belgian waffles.

The story is written by Jay Levin, whose regular beat is crafting obituaries -- life stories of local residents who have died.

Mayor for the birds

Another front-page story quotes Fair Lawn Mayor John Cosgrove complaining it will cost $20,000 to delay painting an aging water tower until "baby ravens hatch and fly away" (A-1).

But the story makes no attempt to explain why the job "already has been put off for more than two years" or say how much that cost taxpayers.

Sounds like Fair Lawn is another town that raises and collects property taxes and then shortchanges residents on services, whether it is repainting a water tower or repairing potholes.

If you car hasn't hit any potholes, you must be a shut-in like Road Warrior John Cichowski, whose premature pothole columns ran several weeks ago with no follow-up.

Big Hackensack news

Don't miss today's big local news -- a photo of a three-vehicle accident on Route 4 west in Hackensack that injured four, including a baby -- on the front of Local (L-1).

Two SUVs and a car were involved, but the caption doesn't say whether drivers of the gas guzzlers were speeding or tailgating or both.

The accident photo gets better play than a group of mayors pushing for extension of NJ Transit light-rail service to Englewood (L-1).



Streets in Fort Lee, above, and Leonia were closed Monday, but none of the work was to repair numerous potholes on Fort Lee's Main Street or Fort Lee Road in Leonia. See L-3 in The Record today. Other potholes have drivers cursing on Routes 4 and 17, and just about everywhere else.

Anti-light rail editors

The Record has run anti-light rail coverage for years, and the paper rolled over and played dead when Tenafly officials killed a plan to extend the electrified line to the borough, where wealthy residents believe they have a constitutional right to drive wasteful SUVs into the city. 

It's unclear whether Publisher Stephen A. Borg, who lives in a $3.65 million Tenafly McMansion, had anything to do with The Record's lukewarm support for light rail.

Even though Englewood officials say they will build new parking garages for light-rail users, the plan might be doomed by a required 50% state match for the $1 billion project.

As commuters know, Governor Christie hates mass transit, but he may be out of office when the extension from Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen is ready to be built (L-7). 

Greed isn't good

Hackensack residents who lived under the yoke of the Zisa family for decades might get a kick out of another Zisa, this one an author.

The Better Living cover reports Mike Zisa will sign his book, "The Early Investor: How Teens & Young Adults Can Become Wealthy," at the Ramsey Public Library on Wednesday night (BL-1).

That's refreshing: A Zisa who wants to help others become wealthy.


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Monday, April 21, 2014

Ex-boxer 'battled' cancer -- and more newspaper fiction

Posted on 8:20 AM by Dilip walkar
Two of the unrepaired potholes on Hackensack's Euclid Avenue, near Summit Avenue, above and below, part of a veritable minefield left over from our brutal winter that slows drivers to 10 mph, but unleashes a stream of curses directed at city officials and The Record's local-news editors.




By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

Today's front-page headline on The Record's story about ex-boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is confusing.

The trite main headline says Carter "loses his final bout," but the sub-headline notes he "fought years to clear his name and died a free man."

The writer assumes readers knew Carter had prostate cancer, which apparently was "his final bout."

Still, "final bout" is too close to "fought years to clear his name," and the headline writer failed to communicate Carter's death clearly.

Even more disturbing is The Record and other media always reporting that a subject "lost his/her battle" with the disease that killed them.

Judging from John Artis, Carter's friend and co-defendant in a triple-murder trial, it wasn't much of a battle.

"I'm sad he is gone, but relieved that the pain and suffering is over. There will be no more pain," Artis says (A-6).

More problems

This story has other problems of sloppy caption writing and lazy reporting.

On the continuation page, a caption notes, "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter knocking out Italian Fabio Bettini in Paris in 1965 (A-6).

Yet the photo show both men in the ring, and no contact, hardly what you'd describe as "knocking out."

Even worse is the silly sidebar by Staff Writer Jim Norman, who was assigned to see what had changed at the Lafayette Grill nearly 50 years after the murders that led to the wrongful conviction of Carter and Artis (A-6).

Dissing Paterson

In keeping with The Record's slanted coverage of Paterson as a hell on earth, Norman claims "the neighborhood has changed over the nearly half-century that has left much of Paterson crumbling into dust."

Where has this reporter been? 

Hasn't he ever visited the Eastside's glorious mansions; the city's Great Falls or the bustling Middle Eastern bazaar known as South Paterson?

Shame on Norman and shame on the Woodland Park daily for continuing to mine all of Paterson's negativity while ignoring the Silk City's many attractions.

Other questions

Another front-page story today -- on the death of 76-year-old Dolores Bellina in a Carlstadt house fire -- never asks or answers a natural question:

Did the woman, who lived alone, smoke (A-1)?

Governor Christie's decision on whether to keep New Jersey Chief Justice Stewart Rabner is still about five weeks away, according to Staff Writer Charles Stile's column on Page 1 today.

Stile has written this column about Christie's image numerous times by just changing names and situations, but fails to deliver what every reader wants from a columnist: 

A strong opinion.



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Sunday, April 20, 2014

More old ground in disappointing Sunday edition

Posted on 6:53 AM by Dilip walkar
On the ferry to Manhattan. Crossing the Hudson this way is a lot more civilized -- and far more expensive -- than taking a crowded NJ Transit bus or train.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

My car is still hitting big potholes on streets and highways, even in the parking lot of the Weehawken ferry.

But The Record's Sunday edition today is nearly devoid of municipal news or even any attempt to explain why towns and the state can't afford to repair hundreds of these driving hazards.

Instead, Editor Marty Gottlieb cedes precious front-page space to two burned-out columnists and a second-day story that elevates the suffering of dogs above that of humans in Paterson (A-1).

Many questions

The main element on Page 1 -- "County cop fights for life after crash" -- doesn't discuss whether Officer Daniel Breslin was following procedure when he stopped his marked SUV in a travel lane of Route 46.

Breslin was in critical condition after a car driven by an allegedly drunk driver slammed into his police vehicle around 1:50 a.m. Saturday.

Columnist Mike Kelly wonders whether local police departments are prepared to deal with domestic terrorism (A-1).

He mentions the Teaneck department, which is best known for a Cedar Lane speed trap that catches unsuspecting drivers crossing the Anderson Street Bridge from Hackensack.

Media fog

Columnist Charles Stile claims the George Washington Bridge scandal has exposed Governor Christie "as a bully who attacks opponents in unmercifully harsh, dismissive language" (A-1 and A-8).

But only Stile and other Record reporters and columnists have ignored the GOP bully's mean-spirited policies, dating to 2010, as they fell all over themselves to promote him as a presidential contender.

Ignoring towns

In Local, a brief on this week's school board election in Hackensack doesn't tell readers anything about the two incumbents and two challengers who are seeking two vacancies beyond listing their names (L-2). 

Business continues to ignore Main Street and lavish coverage on such chain retailers as Best Buy and Bed Bath & Beyond (B-1).

Somehow, a food truck serving naturally raised, grass-fed beef short ribs and organic polenta has broken through all the publicity in Better Living for low-quality, drug- and hormone-filled meat (BL-2).

Margulies, Oxford

The only thing worth looking at in Opinion is the Margulies cartoon, which lampoons all the work Christie has given to lawyers while New Jerseyans join growing unemployment lines (O-2).

Oxford, England, has never been on my must-see list.

But today's thin Travel section contains nearly two pages about the university city, thanks to a story by former Record reporter Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy.

Schlossberg informs readers she is studying history at Oxford (T-1).


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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Editors are exploiting every misery in Paterson

Posted on 8:12 AM by Dilip walkar
As commuters streamed by on a chilly spring day this week, homeless men and women warmed themselves with coffee inside the main NJ Transit entrance of Penn Station in Manhattan.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

I pity readers who rely on The Record of Woodland Park for their knowledge of Paterson, a pioneering industrial center that harnessed the power of the Great Falls and immigrant workers to earn the title of "Silk City."

Under former Editor Francis "Frank" Scandale, Paterson was most often portrayed as a drug bazaar that lured white suburbanites, many of whom overdosed and met untimely deaths.

In a boneheaded decision, Scandale even ran a map showing readers where they could find drug dealers, and never put the city's Police Department on the spot for lax enforcement.

Editor Marty Gottlieb exploited that same Paterson theme in a 2013 series on North Jersey's heroin epidemic, and the stories were among the finalists in this year's Pulitzer Prize competition.

Drive-by shootings and murders, spectacular and often deadly fires in slum dwellings, failing schools, greedy public officials, South Paterson as the neighborhood that harbored 9/11 hijackers -- every negative has been exploited by The Record's editors to sell papers.

Today, Page 1 screams about "shocking ... blood and cruelty" after two people were arrested for running a dog-fighting ring and 21 pit bulls were rescued by Paterson's John DeCando, North Jersey's most-visible animal control officer (A-1).

Race based?

Another front-page story today doesn't discuss the racial makeup of Ramapo, N.Y., where Ford Motor Co. has been ordered to remove "almost all of the toxic paint sludge" the automaker dumped there decades ago, in contrast to a plan to cap much more Ford waste a few miles away in Ringwood. (A-1).

Readers have no way of knowing whether the Rockland County, N.Y., town is being treated differently than the Upper Ringwood neighborhood, because of discrimination against mixed-race Ramapoughs who live in the North Jersey community.

GWB scandal

Readers who have called on The Record and other media "to move on" and stop writing about the George Washington Bridge scandal were greeted by another front-page story today that explores for the first time lawyer David Samson's influence in the Christie administration (A-1).

Samson has been called a mentor and father figure to Governor Christie, who named the lawyer chairman of the Port Authority, where he ran interference for clients of his law firm, Wolff & Samson.

The powerful lawyer is among members of Christie's inner circle who resigned in the wake of allegations of political retribution against Democrats in the months before last November's election.

Christ and potholes

The Local section today manages to wrap up in a single story Easter, the suffering of Christ and how an actor injured himself on a Paterson pothole that hasn't been repaired weeks after the end of a brutal winter (L-1).

Why does it take a Good Friday procession to get the editors to dramatize the danger of all of those still-gaping potholes on streets and highways in North Jersey? 

Second looks

The Record's lazy local-news editors ran a Page 1 story on Thursday, praising Hackensack Police Officer Victor Vazquez for saving the life of an elderly woman, arresting a suspect in a violent robbery and assisting in the arrest of two drug suspects on Route 80.

But the story wasn't based on original reporting. 

Jerry DeMarco's CliffviewPilot.com ran a piece on the cop's exploits two days earlier. 

Meanwhile, a concerned reader e-mailed managers and editors of The Record, reporting that Road Warrior John Cichowski "confused and misled readers in his Sunday and Tuesday columns about the dangers, state regulations and a recent crackdown on driving while talking or texting on handheld cellphones."

See the Facebook page for Road Warrior Bloopers, which chronicles all of the befuddled reporter's many errors in these and past columns:

More errors on a familiar Road Warrior theme

Facts can't curb out-of-control Road Warrior


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Friday, April 18, 2014

When you add up the numbers, we're screwed

Posted on 10:40 AM by Dilip walkar
NJ Transit says you cannot take a bus from Hackensack to the ferry terminal off of River Road (Port Imperial Boulevard) in Weehawken, above. Parking in a lot near the terminal is $13 or $15 in a garage, and the round-trip senior fare is $16.50. 

The ferry approaching the Manhattan terminal.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

One of the funniest things I've read in The Record appears on Page 1 today.

Jane Huang of Alpine says of the parcel she sold for $5 million -- more than doubling what she paid in 2002:

"Where can you find 2 acres 15 minutes from midtown Manhattan?" 

Doesn't add up

Let's hope she didn't use that bit of fiction as a selling point, because the sad state of mass transit and growing traffic congestion makes that trip possible only in the middle of the night.

Why is this gee-whiz real estate story out front when readers find only a few paragraphs on Page 1 about the sad state of New Jersey's economy under Governor Christie?

New Jersey has lost 1,900 jobs so far this year (A-1 and B-1).

"New Jersey's labor market is going nowhere slowly," said one researcher. "Nothing stands out as a reason to be optimistic about where we are going."

Lazy editors

Other numbers could lift our spirits, but The Record's lazy editors didn't bother localizing the lead Page 1 story on the Affordable Care Act signing up 8 million people (A-1).

So, The Associated Press story tells readers California's state-run insurance exchange signed up 1.4 million, outpacing estimates.

But there are no numbers for New Jersey, where Christie sabotaged the roll-out by refusing to set up a state exchange or even use more than $7 million in federal funds to market federal health insurance.

Christie, Zisa

In a letter to the editor, Paula Rogovin of Teaneck says she and other taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for the whitewash report clearing Christie of any wrongdoing in the George Washington Bridge lane closures (A-12).

Christie hired the lawyers that wrote the report, and their firm donated money to the Republican Governors Association, which the GOP bully chairs.

"Instead," she wrote, "let's use the $1 million to pay for health and mental health services, jobs, education and housing for ... veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan."

In a second letter, this one reacting to an editorial about the corrupt Ken Zisa, Hackensack City Councilman Leo Battaglia notes:

 "The city was was too tightly controlled by the political machine headed by Zisa and his circle of powerful political cronies for anyone to challenge their power."

Battaglia, a member of the reform slate that took office last July, says, "The abuse of power and the intimidation of employees and citizens will not be tolerated by this council."

Editors on vacation

Today's Local section is filled mostly with Law & Order news.

Does the hanging of a portrait of Fair Lawn Officer Mary Ann Collura 11 years after her death really merit all of that coverage on L-1 today?

A story on vacant retail highway sites (B-1) has many readers wondering why Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza continues to ignore all of the empty storefronts in Englewood, Hackensack and other downtowns.

Bridge crowd

Fort Lee's mayor eats there, and you can read the resumes of the owner and chef in Staff Writer Elisa Ung's lukewarm review (BL-16). 

Who cares? G.W. Grill sounds like it is still finding its way as a restaurant:

"Chewy" salmon, "rather resilient rings of calamari," "heavy fusilli," "searing hot" desserts and a cocktail served with "a dirty straw."

Really disgusting.

Ung notes the owner believed Fort Lee, now dominated by Asian restaurants, needed "more of a neighborhood watering hole with American and Italian favorites."

This ain't it. I'll stick with ramen, sashimi, soft tofu and fiery kimchi.



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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Christie the bully ensures his survival, not ours

Posted on 12:53 PM by Dilip walkar
After a breather on Monday and Tuesday, the first two days of Passover, the New Jersey entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel was as congested as ever this morning.


By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

As New Jersey goes down the tubes, Governor Christie is spending more and more time raising money to ensure his political future.

Today and Wednesday, The Record's front page reports about contributions to the Republican Governors Association, which Christie heads and which he credits with electing him in 2009 to his first term.

On Wednesday, the Woodland Park daily reported that the law firm of Gibson Dunn gave $10,000 to the group, nine days before its lawyers issued a reporting clearing Christie of any wrongdoing in the George Washington Bridge lane closures (A-1).

That self-serving whitewash will cost taxpayers as much as $1 million, according to media reports.

Drug deal

Today, the paper reports the GOP bully appeared at a groundbreaking for Celgene, a drug company that donated $26,00o last year to the RGA (A-1).

The year before, the drug company hired Rich Bagger, a former Christie chief of staff, as senior vice president.

Then, Christie named Bagger to the Port Authority's board of commissioners. And in 2013, Bagger gave $10,000 to the RGA.

All of this really stinks.

Where's the fire?

Why does anybody move into Elmwood Park, where liquor is served at the borough's firehouses and where a reportedly intoxicated fireman crashed a ladder truck into utility poles (A-1)?

Today's Page 1 story doesn't say whether the borough has a volunteer or professional fire department, but it mentions that River Edge ended and Lodi restricts firehouse drinking (A-8).

I'm a pretty close reader of the Local news section, and have been for years, and can't recall every reading a story about firehouses that serve liquor.

What exactly are the local-news editors doing?

Horsing around

As the onetime owner of a 1966 Ford Mustang GT, I enjoyed the Better Living cover story on the iconic car's 50th anniversary (BL-1).

But what was the point of running two photos of owner John Pestrichelli of River Edge and his 1973 Mustang, especially the shocking shot of the grossly overweight man behind the wheel on BL-3?

Two other photos of a second Mustang owner also run with the story. Couldn't the editors find four different Mustang owners?

And the story deserves a less-amateurish headline then: 



"A PONY WITH
 GIDDYUP"


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  • Holy Cross Cemetery
  • Holy Name Medical Center
  • home rule
  • Home-rule system of local government
  • hospital gowns
  • hot air from columnists
  • house burglaries
  • House Speaker John Boner
  • Houston's in Hackensack
  • Howard Hurwitz
  • Howard Vogel
  • Hudson News
  • Hudson News founder Robert Cohen
  • Hudson News inheritance battle
  • Hudson River rail tunnels
  • Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
  • Hugh R. Morley
  • human trafficking
  • HUMC
  • hummus
  • Husni Mubarak
  • hybrid cars
  • Ida Martin
  • Igor Shpudejko
  • illegal immigrants
  • illegal students
  • immigration
  • immigration reform
  • impeach Christie
  • Imperial Dynasty
  • in-state tuition for illegal students
  • inaccurate headline
  • inaugural speech
  • inebriation
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  • inside restaurant kitchens
  • institutional news
  • insufferable Super Bowl hype
  • Iraq
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  • Istanbul Cafe
  • Italian-American comfort food
  • Izod Center
  • Jack Zisa
  • Jamaica
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  • James Brady
  • James Comey
  • James E. McGreevey
  • James Gandolfini
  • James T. Woetzel
  • James Tedesco
  • Jan. 1 reorganizations
  • Jane Abraham
  • Jane Huang
  • Japanese firm
  • Jason Nunnermacker
  • Jay Fahy suicide
  • Jay Himelstein
  • Jay Holahan of Teaneck
  • Jay Levin
  • Jayme Ouellette
  • Jean Rimbach
  • Jeb Bush
  • Jeff Kirshbaum
  • Jeff Page
  • Jeff Page fizzles
  • Jeff Pillets
  • Jeff Tittel of the Sierra Club
  • Jeffery Jones
  • Jeffrey Chiesa
  • Jeffrey Page
  • Jennifer A. Borg
  • Jennifer and Stephen Borg
  • Jennifer Pechko of Kinnelon
  • Jerome Lombardo
  • Jerome S. Some
  • Jerome Some
  • Jerry Lombardo
  • Jerry Luciani
  • Jerry Speziale
  • Jersey
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  • Jersey jokes
  • Jersey Shore
  • Jersey shore economy
  • Jersey shore inferno
  • Jessica Marotta
  • Jets
  • JFK
  • JFK assassination
  • Jhon Alzate
  • Jill Schensul
  • Jim Beckerman
  • Jim Keady
  • Jim Mangin
  • Jim Norman
  • Jim Norman. Lady Gaga
  • Jim Weinstein of NJ Transit
  • Jimmy Fallon
  • JimRomenesko.com
  • jitney drivers
  • jitneys
  • Joan Rivers
  • Joan Schaefer
  • Joan Verdon
  • Joanne Chesimard
  • job creation
  • Jock-itching Francis Scandale
  • Joey Bariso
  • Joey Torres
  • John 'Limp Chick' Cichowski
  • John Amicucci of Fair Lawn
  • John Artis
  • John Boehner
  • John Borg
  • John Brennan
  • John C. Ensslin
  • John Cichowski
  • John Cichowski's Dad
  • John Currie
  • John Degnan
  • John E. Wallace Jr.
  • John Ensslin
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • John Halligan
  • John J. Fahy
  • John L. Molinelli
  • John Labrosse
  • John Molinelli
  • John Norton
  • John Peter Zenger
  • John Petrick
  • John Reitmeyer
  • John Rowe
  • John T. Wright Arena
  • John Vitale
  • JoJo Giorgianni
  • Jon Bon Jovi
  • Jon Corzine
  • Jon F. Hanson
  • Jordan Johnson of Fort Lee
  • Jorge Arcila
  • Jorge E. Rodriguez
  • Joseph A. Ferriero
  • Joseph Abate
  • Joseph Ayoubi
  • Joseph Barreto
  • Joseph C. Zisa Jr.
  • Joseph Christ
  • Joseph Currier
  • Joseph Mellone
  • Joyce Chinese Cuisine in River Edge
  • Joyce Venezia Suss
  • Judge Fuzzy Fernandez
  • judicial vacancies
  • Julia Sexton
  • Juliana Valdez
  • July 1 reorganization
  • junk food
  • junk food at sports venues
  • jury duty
  • jury nullification
  • jury system
  • Justice Center
  • Kara Yorio
  • Kardashians
  • Karen Piotti
  • Karen Rouse
  • Kate Morgan Jackson
  • Kate Morgan Jakcson
  • Kates Bros.
  • Kates Bros. shoe store in Hackensack
  • Katey Samarro
  • Kathleen Canestrino
  • Kathleen Donovan
  • Kathleen Lynn
  • Kean University in Union
  • Kelly Medina
  • Ken "I Am The Law" Zisa
  • Ken Zisa
  • Kenneth Bigert
  • Kenneth Hollenbeck
  • Kenneth Martin
  • Kenneth Martin cleared
  • Kevin Bonin
  • Kevin DeMarrais
  • Kevin Errico
  • Kevin Kohler of Cafe Panache
  • Kevin O'Dowd
  • Kevon Larkins
  • Keystone XL pipeline
  • Kibret Markos
  • Kim Guadano
  • Kim Jung Un
  • Kim Lueddeke
  • Kirk-Andeno Lawrence of Paterson
  • Koch brothers
  • Korean comfort women
  • Korean dry cleaner
  • Korean restaurants
  • Korean-Americans
  • KSAP
  • Kurt F. Kron of Montvale
  • Kwasi Medoza
  • La Pola
  • Lachlan Hnds
  • lack of police enforcement
  • Lake Street in Ramsey
  • lame-duck council members
  • Lan Garden
  • Lan Sheng in Wallington
  • landslide fantasy
  • lane closures at Fort Lee end of GWB
  • lap-band surgery
  • Larry Finch
  • Las Vegas
  • Latinos
  • Law and Order
  • Law and Order copy
  • Law and Order coverage
  • Law and Order news
  • Law Enforcement
  • Lawrence Aaron
  • Lawrence Scherf
  • lawsuits
  • Lazy editors
  • Lazy journalism
  • lazy local news editors
  • lazy minions
  • lazy reporting
  • Lee D'Arminio
  • legal fees
  • legal fees top $9M
  • legal immigration
  • legal system
  • legislation to help women
  • Leigh Kurtz
  • Leo Cervantes
  • Leonard Pitts Jr.
  • Leonia
  • Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe
  • letters to the editor
  • Lewis Katz
  • Lexus
  • Leyla Kan of Fort Lee
  • LG
  • LG Electronics
  • Libya
  • Light rail
  • light-rail service
  • Lilia Rios
  • Lincoln luxury cars
  • Lincoln School
  • Lincoln Tunnel
  • Linda Moss
  • Lindy Washburn
  • litigation
  • Little Falls truck-train crash
  • Little Ferry Circle
  • Little Ferry Circle is history
  • Little Mexico in Passaic city
  • Liz Holuton
  • Liz Houlton
  • Liz Llorente
  • Liza Minnelli
  • loaves and fishes
  • Local
  • local news
  • Local news section
  • local obit
  • local obits
  • local police
  • Local Seasonal Kitchen in Ramsey
  • Local section
  • long commutes
  • Long-term unemployed
  • Looking back at 2014
  • Looking forward at 2015
  • Loretta Weinberg
  • Lotus Cafe
  • Lou Stellato
  • Low voter turnout on Tuesday
  • lows of 2013
  • Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno
  • Lt. Thomas 'Chip' Michaels
  • LTACH
  • LTACH lawsuit
  • Lupita Nyong'o
  • luxury apartment building
  • Lyndhurst
  • Lynne B. Hurwitz
  • Lynne Hurwitz
  • M. Ingannamorte & Son of Tenafly
  • M. Robert DeCottis
  • Mac Borg
  • Madeleine's Petit Paris
  • Madison Holleran
  • mahi mahi
  • mail-in ballot
  • Main Avenue
  • Main Street
  • Main Street app
  • Main Streets
  • Malcolm A. "Mac" Borg
  • Malcolm A. "Mac" Borg
  • Malcolm A. Borg
  • male columnists
  • mall assault in Kenya
  • Mall at Short Hills
  • mall makeovers
  • mall security
  • mall suicide
  • Malls
  • Manhattan traffic
  • Marauding deer
  • Marc Schaeffer of Wyckoff
  • March on Washington
  • Marge Roukema
  • Margulies
  • Marian McPartland
  • Mario and Andrew Cuomo
  • Marissa Lopez
  • Mark Fields
  • Mark Shields
  • Mark Sokolich
  • Market Basket Survey
  • Martha Washington
  • Martin Gottlieb
  • Martini Grill
  • Marty Gottlieb
  • Mary Diduch
  • Mary Ellen Vichiconti
  • Mary Elllen Marino
  • Mary Greff
  • mass shooting in D.C.
  • mass transit
  • masturbatory journalism
  • Matsushima
  • Matt Katz of New Jersey Public Radio
  • Matt Mowers
  • Matthew Killen
  • Matthew McConaughey
  • Matthew's Italian Restaurant
  • Max Aronson of Woodcliff Lake
  • Mayor Bloomberg
  • Mayor John Labrosse
  • Mayor John P. Labrosse Jr.
  • Mayor Mark Sokolich
  • Mayor Richard S. Goldberg
  • Mazda
  • Mazur's Bakery
  • McDonald's
  • Meadowlands
  • Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center
  • mean spirited
  • mean-spirited Republicans
  • media hype
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Melinda Thompson
  • Melissa A. Pereira
  • Melissa Hayes
  • Melvin Santiago
  • Memoire in Ridgewood
  • Memorial Day
  • Memorial Day Parade
  • Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Van
  • Mercedes-Benz USA
  • Mercury
  • Mexicans from Puebla
  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • Mezza in Westwood
  • Michael Brown of Ferguson
  • Michael Critchley Sr.
  • Michael Drewniak
  • Michael Melfi
  • Michael Moore
  • Michael Mordaga
  • Michael Polizzi
  • Michael Ventura
  • Michele Bachmann
  • Michele DiIorgi
  • Michelle Obama
  • Michelle Sous
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Middle class
  • Middletown
  • Midtown Bridge between Hackesnack and Bogota
  • midtown Manhattan bus terminal
  • Mighty Quinn's Barbecue of Clifton
  • Miguel Perez
  • Miguel Reyes
  • Mike Drewniak
  • Mike Kelly
  • Mike Kelly or Mike Smelly
  • Mike Kelly screw-up
  • Mike Kelly's shit-eating grin
  • Mike Mordaga
  • Mike Nichols
  • Mike Smelly
  • Mike Zisa
  • Miles Feinstein
  • Miles Reme
  • Milly Silva
  • minimum wage
  • minimum wage veto
  • Minjae Park
  • missing minority women
  • misspelled names
  • Mitt Romney
  • Mkike Kelly
  • mobsters
  • Momma's Kitchen in Montvale
  • Monday night work session
  • Monksville Reservoir
  • Monsy Alvarado
  • Montreal
  • Moonachie Fire Chief William D. Hunt
  • more coverage of restaurants and their wealthy owners
  • more errors
  • more errors in Road Warrior column
  • more hot air
  • more layoffs at state's biggest paper
  • more truck fatalities
  • morels
  • Mother's Day
  • Mount Laurel decisions
  • Moynihan Station Project
  • Mulgrew Miller
  • Muslim Brotherhood
  • mutt
  • MVC
  • MVC license renewals
  • myCentralJersey.com
  • Mylyn Liego
  • Myrna Sherman
  • myth making
  • N-word
  • N.J. Coalition of Automotive Dealers
  • Na Johnson
  • Nam Knights Motorcycle Club
  • Nana Smith
  • Nancy Cherry
  • Nanuet mall
  • Nation of immigrants
  • National Football League
  • nature center
  • Navy Yard shooter
  • Nazareh Bugg
  • Nazareh's family
  • Nazi helmets
  • Nelson Mandela of South Africa
  • Nevada school teacher killed
  • Nevis
  • New Bridge Landing
  • New Jersey
  • New Jersey budget
  • New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers
  • New Jersey Democrats
  • New Jersey economy
  • New Jersey Gold Coast
  • New Jersey license plates
  • New Jersey Shore
  • New rail tunnels
  • New World Trade Center
  • New York City media
  • Newark
  • NewBridge Services
  • news business
  • Newspaper endorsements
  • newsroom massacre
  • newsroom rumors
  • Newtown
  • NFL
  • NFL Concussion Crisis
  • NHTSA
  • Nicholas Piotti
  • Nick Romano
  • Nicole Clarke
  • Nicole Dickstein
  • NJ Transit
  • NJ Transit Access Link
  • NJ Transit bus
  • NJ Transit bus riders
  • NJ Transit buses
  • NJ Transit light rail
  • NJ Transit rail service
  • NJ Transit rail suicides
  • NJ Transit talking buses
  • NJ/DC column
  • NJMG
  • NJMG Pension Plan
  • no doors to protect commuters from weather
  • no passengers
  • no pothole repairs
  • no-cash policy after 11 p.m.
  • no-tax debacle
  • No. 165 to Oradell
  • Noel Korman and Alice Park
  • noise walls
  • noisy motorcycles
  • Non GMO Project Verified
  • non-profits shift tax burden to residents
  • North Jersey
  • North Jersey DPWs
  • North Jersey Media Group
  • North Jersey Media Group. Hannan Adely
  • North Jersey racists
  • North Jersey Turkish restaurants
  • northjersey.com
  • NorthJersey.com.
  • Nov. 22 assassination in Dallas
  • Nov. 4 election
  • Novu Restaurant
  • NRA
  • NY Waterway
  • NY Waterway Ferry
  • NYPD cops
  • Obamacare to cost more in N.J.
  • obese editors
  • obesity
  • Obesity epidemic
  • obituaries
  • obscure wire service obits
  • observant Orthodox Jews
  • Oceanos in Fair Lawn
  • Odell Beckham Jr.
  • Oil trains in Bergen County
  • Oklahoma tornado
  • older drivers
  • Olga Bariso
  • Olga Dominguez
  • Oneil Linton aka Fuzzy
  • online casino gambling
  • online seafood market
  • open space
  • open-air venue
  • Orama in Edgewater
  • Oratam
  • organic food
  • Oritani Field Club
  • Outrageous Markups on wine
  • overeaters
  • Overpeck County Park
  • Overpeck Park
  • P.C. Richard ad
  • P.R. for Christie
  • PA
  • PA of NY and NJ
  • PA toll hike
  • PA toll money
  • PA Tolls
  • PABT
  • Page 1 balance
  • Page 1 blow job
  • Page 1 process stories
  • Palisade Avenue
  • Palisades
  • Palisades Interstate Parkway
  • Palisades Park
  • Pan Am Flight 103
  • Panasonic gender and race bias lawsuit
  • PANYNJ
  • Paramus
  • Paramus cop kills fleeing suspect
  • Paramus mayor
  • Paramus Park
  • Paramus police
  • Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg
  • Parisi family
  • parking at the mall
  • parking spaces on River Street
  • partial government shutdown
  • Pascack Valley Line
  • Pashman Stein
  • Passaic city
  • Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes
  • Passaic River
  • Passaic River polluters
  • passive house
  • Passover
  • Passover Effect
  • pasta sauce
  • Pat Kinney
  • Pat Mack
  • Paterson
  • Paterson business curfew
  • Paterson cops hired
  • Paterson gun violence
  • Paterson Mayor Jeffery Jones
  • Paterson Mayor Joey Torres
  • Paterson Police Department
  • Paterson Press
  • Paterson Public Library
  • Paterson repaving plan
  • Paterson's impoverished 4th Ward
  • PATH
  • pathetic coverage
  • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • Patisserie Florent
  • Patricia Alex
  • Patrick Murray
  • patronage mill
  • Paul J.Foschini
  • Paul Krugman
  • Paul White of Ridgewood
  • Paula A. Franzese
  • Paula Rogovin
  • paving news
  • payback to Democrats
  • Pedestrian deaths
  • pedestrian safety
  • pedestrians
  • Pedro Quezada
  • Penn Station
  • pension funds
  • Pepsi
  • Pete Napolitano
  • Peter J. Sampson
  • Peter Larsen
  • Peter Panteleakis
  • Peter Van Lenten Jr.
  • Peter Van Lenten Jr. NJMG lawsuit
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Phillip C. Pannell
  • photo staff
  • pickup hits and kills woman
  • Picnic Cafe in Pal Park
  • Pier 115 Bar and Grill
  • Pinelands Commission
  • PIP police
  • Pizzeria Mandara
  • Poblanos
  • Point Pleasant Beach
  • police news
  • police officers working without contract
  • police overtime
  • Polifly Towing
  • political coverage
  • political junkies
  • political lane closures
  • political lane closures in Fort Lee
  • political retribution
  • Politics
  • Polk Award
  • Pope
  • Pope Francis in Turkey
  • Pops Tashian
  • porn suit
  • Port Newark/Elizabeth
  • Port Atrocity
  • Port Authority
  • Port Authority Bus Terminal
  • Port Authority of N.Y. and N.J.
  • Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
  • Port Authority reforms vetoed
  • Port Authority tolls
  • Port Autthority
  • Pot-of-Balls
  • pothole repairs in Hackensack
  • potholes
  • Predatory priests
  • pregnant pigs
  • President Obama
  • President Obama's Affordable Care Act
  • press trips
  • presumptive City Manager David R. Troast
  • pretzel buns
  • pro football
  • process stories
  • product liability
  • Production Editor Liz Houlton
  • Prof. Peter Woolley
  • Profiling
  • promoting fine dining
  • property taxes
  • Prospect Avenue
  • Prospect Avenue Coalition
  • Prospect Avenue in Hackensack
  • prostate report
  • public employee benefits
  • public employee pensions
  • public relations consultant
  • Public schools
  • Publisher Stephen A. Borg
  • Pulaski Skyway
  • Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism
  • Queen of Errors
  • Rabbi Mendy Carlebach
  • Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
  • Rachel Johnson
  • racial animus
  • racial injustice
  • racial slur
  • racism
  • racism in North Jersey
  • Railroad Avenue
  • Railroad Avenue in Hackensack
  • raising chickens
  • Ralph Kramden
  • Ramapough Indians
  • Ramapough Mountain Indians
  • Ramapough Mountain People
  • Ramapoughs
  • Ramsey station
  • Randy Mastro
  • Rape Edition
  • Rapes on college campuses
  • ravens
  • Ray Dressler
  • Raymond's in Ridgewood
  • Re/Max
  • Real Housewives of New Jersey
  • Rebecca D. O'Brien
  • Rebecca O'Brien
  • Rebecca's in Edgewater
  • Recovery Room is Westwood
  • recyclables
  • red-light cameras
  • Red-light running. Red-light cameras
  • redlining
  • Reforms
  • Regina Di Pasqua
  • rehashing the past
  • Reid Schar
  • Reliance Insurance Group
  • Renegade Pigs Motorcycle Club
  • rental apartments
  • Rep. Scott Garrett
  • Republican Goobers Association
  • Republican Governors Association
  • Republicans
  • Republicans in Congress
  • restaurant gripes
  • restaurant owners
  • restaurant reviewer Elisa Ung
  • Restaurant Week
  • Restaurants
  • restaurants' second generation
  • retired cops at funeral homes
  • retired engineer
  • Revel Casino
  • revenue shortfall in New Jersey
  • reviving downtowns
  • RGA
  • Rich Bagger
  • Richard Cerbo
  • Richard E. Salkin
  • Richard G. Simon of New Milford
  • Richard Malagiere
  • Richard Nixon
  • Richard Peneles
  • Richard Salkin
  • Richard Shoop
  • Ridgewood
  • Ridgewood News
  • Ridgewood telephone poles
  • Ridgewood utility poles
  • right to bear arms
  • right-wing GOP politics
  • Rita Cookson
  • Road rage
  • road rage in Manhattan
  • Road Warrior
  • Road Warrior Bloopers
  • Road Warrior Bloopers on Facebook
  • Road Warrior Columnist John Cichowski
  • Road Warrior contradictions
  • Road Warrior encourages law breakers
  • Road Warrior errors
  • Road Warrior errors keep piling up
  • Road Warrior exaggeration
  • Road Warrior John Cichowski
  • Road Warror column
  • Road Worrier John Cichowski
  • road-rage incident
  • Robert and Eileen Lintner of Saddle Brook
  • Robert Andrews
  • Robert Daniello of Ridgefield Park
  • Robert Drelich
  • Robin Williams
  • Rockaway printing plant
  • Ronald Perelman
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Ronnie Hakim
  • roof collapses
  • roof snow
  • Roots Steakhouse
  • Rosario D'Rivera
  • Rose Greenman
  • Rose Persian Restaurant
  • Rose's of Englewood
  • Roseann Ponchick
  • Rosh Hashana
  • Rosie's Weenie Wagon
  • Route 17
  • Route 17 in Waldwick
  • Route 4 apartments
  • Route 4 east
  • Route 46 DWI crash
  • Route 495
  • Roy Cho
  • Roy Cho of Hackensack
  • Roy Cho of Hackensack v. Scott Garrett
  • Royal Caribbean
  • Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter
  • Rudolph Giuliani
  • Rudy Giuliani
  • Russel Crowe
  • Ruta Fiorino
  • Rutgers University commencement
  • Ryan Greene
  • S. Egidio in Ridgewood
  • Sabrett hot dogs with preservatives
  • Sachi Fujimori
  • Saddle River Inn
  • safe streets
  • safety measures
  • Saks Fifth Avenue
  • Sal Arena
  • Salumeria Biellesse
  • Salvation Army
  • Samantha Perelman
  • same-sex couples
  • Sandy
  • Sandy aid
  • Sandy Greenbarg
  • Sandy recovery
  • Sandy victims
  • Sapphire Thai in Teaneck
  • Saturday Night Live
  • saving money on health care
  • Sayreville
  • Sayreville football team
  • Scarlett Johansson
  • school segregation in Englewood and Teaneck
  • school shootings
  • Scott Fallon
  • Scott Garrett
  • Scott Kay
  • Sear House
  • Secaucus
  • second term for Christie
  • security or lack of it
  • segregated schools
  • Sen. Barbara Buono
  • Sen. Bob Menendez
  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg
  • Sen. Who?
  • senatorial courtesy
  • September 2013 gridlock in Fort Lee
  • September lane closures at Fort Lee end of GWB
  • Sergio's Missione
  • Seth Gunar
  • sex addict Anthony Weiner
  • sex trafficking
  • sexual slavery
  • Seymour Chase
  • Sgt. Vinnie Pepe
  • Shake Shack
  • Shawn Boburg
  • Shoppers
  • ShopRite
  • ShopRite ad
  • shore dunes
  • Shralpers Union
  • Sidney J. Goodman
  • Sidney Kronish
  • Sierra Club
  • Sigma Group
  • Silk City
  • Silver Alert
  • Silver Sneakers
  • Simply Vietnamese
  • siren song of Sandy
  • Sister Mary Victor Waters
  • size doesn't matter
  • sky is falling weather reports
  • Slave labor
  • slave wages in restaurants
  • slaying of Narazeh Bugg
  • sloppy caption writing
  • sloppy editing
  • sloppy writing and editing
  • slumlords
  • Small Business Saturday
  • snow clearing
  • snow plowing
  • snow removal
  • snow-removal follies
  • snowstorms
  • so-called road hogs
  • Social Security
  • Sofia's
  • soju
  • Solaia Restaurant
  • solar panels
  • solar power
  • solar power in Hackensack
  • Some's Uniforms
  • South Paterson
  • South Paterson businessman Jimi Nouri
  • Spanish bus
  • Sparta
  • special election
  • speed cameras
  • speeding
  • speeding drivers
  • speeding enforcement
  • speeding on state highways
  • Spin doctors at The Record of Woodland Park
  • sports
  • sports betting
  • Sports on Page 1
  • sports trumps news
  • St. Moritz luxury high-rise in Edgewater
  • Standard and Poor's
  • Stanley H. Marcus
  • Starbucks
  • state aid to poor cities
  • state and city of Puebla
  • state budget
  • state budget crisis
  • state economy
  • State Ethics Commission
  • State House
  • state Legislature
  • State Legislature's probe
  • State of the State address
  • State pension funds going broke fast
  • state pension system
  • state police
  • State Street in Hackensack
  • state Supreme Court
  • state troopers
  • state's fiscal mess
  • Stefanie Dazio
  • Stehpen A. Borg
  • Stephanie Akin
  • Stephen Lo Iacono
  • Stephen A. and Monica Borg of Tenafly
  • Stephen A. Borg
  • Stephen Gigante
  • Stephen Lo Iacono
  • Stephen Lo Iocano
  • Stephen Petruzzello
  • Stephen Sweeney
  • Stephen Whitty
  • Sterling Forest
  • Steve Carrellas
  • Steve Janoski
  • Steve Lonegan
  • Steve Santoro
  • Steven V. Gelber
  • Stickey's BBQ
  • stock accident photo
  • Stop the Presses
  • Straphanger Saloon
  • Stuart Rabner
  • subpoenas
  • suburban jungle
  • Subway Vigilante
  • Sue Herera
  • sugary drinks
  • suicide by train
  • Summit Avenue
  • Sunday circulation figures
  • Sunrise Senior Living Jazz Festival
  • Sunset Farm in Andover
  • Super Bowl
  • Super Bowl fans
  • Super Toilet Bowl
  • Superstorm Sandy
  • Superstorm Sandy aid
  • Supreme Court
  • Susan and Joel Winton
  • Susan Sherrill
  • sushi and shashimi
  • SUVs
  • Syria
  • Syrian chemical weapons
  • Syrian civil war
  • Syros Taverna in Englewood
  • Table to Table
  • table-top computers
  • taco
  • Tar sands
  • Tara Sullivan
  • Tara Sulllivan
  • Tariq Zehawi
  • Tatiana Schlossberg
  • tax surcharge on millionaires
  • tax-exempt property
  • tax-exempt property in Hackensack
  • taxes
  • taxes but no services
  • taxing the rich
  • Taylor Swift
  • Tea Party
  • Tea Party crackpot
  • Tea Party crackpots
  • Tea Party racist
  • Tea Party wackos
  • Teaneck
  • Teaneck cops
  • Teaneck High School
  • Teaneck Police Departments
  • Teaneck speed trap
  • Ted Cruz
  • Teddy Roosevelt
  • Teia Gallo
  • telephone reporting
  • Tenafly
  • Tenafly Nature Center
  • Tenafly news
  • Teresa and Joe Guidice
  • Teresa Giudice
  • Teresa Guidice
  • Terra
  • Terra a Terre in Carlstadt
  • terrorism
  • Tesla
  • Tesla Model S
  • Teterboro
  • Teterboro Airport
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