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A Page 1 photo in The Record today -- showing Governor Christie shaking hands with former President Bill Clinton -- is a useful reminder that his mean-spirited policies don't stand a chance against a woman challenger.
In the unlikely event Christie wins a second term in November over the middle-class challenge from Democrat Barbara Buono, the GOP bully's well-padded derriere will get a good spanking from Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential contest (A-1 and A-4).
Christie booster
The Record's story on A-4 today again quotes a favorite source, Patrick Murphy -- an unabashed Christie booster -- from the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
Murphy says Christie's appearance at a Chicago conference on Friday "reflected the governor's ongoing effort to burnish his bipartisan credentials."
Veto-happy
What "bipartisan credentials"?
Murphy must be referring to Christie's numerous vetoes, killing everything from an income-tax surcharge on millionaires to a hike in the minimum wage.
Those two vetoes alone help explain "the standing ovations" Christie received on Wednesday from the New Jersey Business and Industry Association. (Thursday's A-8).
And let's not forget the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks Christie has given to businesses -- whether they create jobs or not.
Dissing Hackensack
In another blow to Hackensack, Christie has approved 5 liquor licenses for a planned Teterboro shopping center that is getting a $19 million state tax break (A-1 and A-10 today).
Costco Wholesale is expected to close its Hackensack store and build a bigger one in the Teterboro development.
Leave him alone
Why doesn't The Record just leave Edward DeBono alone?
The lead front-page story today -- for the second day in a row -- is about the discovery of Cathy Ann DeBono's body in her car at the bottom of the Monksville Reservoir in West Milford more than 5 years after she disappeared (A-1).
Monksville supplies drinking water to readers.
But none of the stories have discussed the impact on water quality from her deteriorating body or from gasoline, oil and other fluids in the car.
Let's hope Toyota doesn't produce a commercial showing that her 2004 Camry's engine turned over after 5 years under water.
And who OK'd the fractured headline over Friday's huge A-1 story on Cathy Ann DeBono?
Body's discovery
brings back old pain
The apostrophe means the "discovery" belongs to the "body." Does that make sense to anyone but Production Editor Liz Houlton, the Queen of Errors?
Big corrections
Today's A-2 carries corrections of stock market charts and a front-page graphic on defibrillators.
How did those huge screw-ups get past Houlton?
Friday's paper
The entire Road Warrior column on Friday's Local front is devoted to the first traffic light installed in Ringwood -- a development that is sure to smooth the commute of his readers, especially those who have never heard of the place (L-1).
Readers are still waiting for the first Road Warrior column from Staff Writer John Cichowski that is free of error.
Unclear text
On Friday's L-3, head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes runs another filler photo of a car-utility pole accident.
As usual, the caption doesn't say whether the driver was texting or masturbating when the car went out of control or whether the pole's powerful magnets caused the accident.
Low-quality steak
It's hard to understand how freelancer Bob Probert can give a good-to-excellent rating to Assembly, an Englewood Cliffs steakhouse that charges $25 for farmed salmon and $45 for an additive-filled T-bone (BL-20 in Friday's Better Living).
Mordaga profile
Friday's edition of the weekly Hackensack Chronicle ran the first of a 3-part profile of Mike Mordaga, Hackensack's civilian police director.
Mordaga has been in the job since Feb. 4, but The Record still hasn't reported on the many changes he has made to improve a Police Department that was brought to its knees by the politics of Ken "I Am The Law" Zisa, the former chief.
Zisa was found guilty of official corruption and insurance fraud, but remains free during his appeal of the conviction and 5-year prison sentence.
Unfortunately, the Chronicle story drops a line or two of type in the penultimate paragraph on Page 2.
Big corrections
Today's A-2 carries corrections of stock market charts and a front-page graphic on defibrillators.
How did those huge screw-ups get past Houlton?
Friday's paper
The entire Road Warrior column on Friday's Local front is devoted to the first traffic light installed in Ringwood -- a development that is sure to smooth the commute of his readers, especially those who have never heard of the place (L-1).
Readers are still waiting for the first Road Warrior column from Staff Writer John Cichowski that is free of error.
Unclear text
On Friday's L-3, head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes runs another filler photo of a car-utility pole accident.
As usual, the caption doesn't say whether the driver was texting or masturbating when the car went out of control or whether the pole's powerful magnets caused the accident.
Low-quality steak
It's hard to understand how freelancer Bob Probert can give a good-to-excellent rating to Assembly, an Englewood Cliffs steakhouse that charges $25 for farmed salmon and $45 for an additive-filled T-bone (BL-20 in Friday's Better Living).
Mordaga profile
Friday's edition of the weekly Hackensack Chronicle ran the first of a 3-part profile of Mike Mordaga, Hackensack's civilian police director.
Mordaga has been in the job since Feb. 4, but The Record still hasn't reported on the many changes he has made to improve a Police Department that was brought to its knees by the politics of Ken "I Am The Law" Zisa, the former chief.
Zisa was found guilty of official corruption and insurance fraud, but remains free during his appeal of the conviction and 5-year prison sentence.
Unfortunately, the Chronicle story drops a line or two of type in the penultimate paragraph on Page 2.
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