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| Patrons can park for free in a lot or at the curb when using the U.S. Post Office in Teaneck, above. In Hackensack, the post office has no parking lot and patrons have to fight over 4 metered spaces out front or for others around the corner. The Hackensack Police Department is across the street, and tickets are not uncommon. |
By Victor E. Sasson
Editor
Check out the phony photo of Staff Writer Herb Jackson with his NJ/DC political column on The Record's front page today.
Jackson -- the Woodland Park daily's so-called Washington correspondent -- is trying to give the impression he carefully considers every word, when, in fact, he writes off the top of his highly partisan head (A-1).
Jackson is part of the paper's public relations machinery for Governor Christie and other conservative Republicans.
Who can forget his Page 1 story on a Tea Party rally in Washington a few years ago, when Jackson conveniently ignored a large photo of dead Jews the Republican crackpots were using to compare health-care reform to the Holocaust?
Despite what Jackson says, Christie's true, partisan nature is well-known.
He set back a mass-transit expansion by decades when he killed two Hudson River rail tunnels.
And the GOP bully went to bat for wealthy business owners by vetoing a hike in the minimum wage (A-3).
Hackensack updates
Two Hackensack stories on the front of Local today update readers on long-running controversies (L-1).
As expected, a Superior Court judge ruled the developer of a proposed 19-story hospital on Prospect Avenue got "a fair hearing" before the city's zoning board turned down his application, 5-0, in January 2012.
A lawyer says the backer of the Bergen-Passaic Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) will appeal the decision (L-6).
The Borgs, Zisa curse
Of course, the Borgs and North Jersey Media Group could have offered to sell their 19.7 acres along River Street to LTACH's developer, defusing the long-running controversy.
But the greedy publishing family has chosen developer Fred Daibes, who promises to flood the area with luxury apartments, putting further strain on the city's public schools.
In return, The Record fills its news columns with favorable coverage of Daibes, a multimillionaire from Edgewater.
The second story amounts to the curse of former Police Chief Ken "I Am The Law" Zisa returning to haunt Hackensack.
Another lawsuit
Zisa is under house arrest while he appeals convictions for insurance fraud and official misconduct, but now he is suing the city and the former president of its police union.
It is city residents who should be suing former City Council members and other city officials for not firing Zisa years ago, when problems in the Police Department first surfaced.
As it is, the LTACH and Zisa cases prove once again only the lawyers win as they rake in unconscionably high legal fees from both sides.
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