Another crappy column from a burned-out reporter

In Hackensack, Teaneck, Englewood and many other towns, as well as on state highways, hundreds of potholes like this one remain unfilled, and pose an obstacle course for drivers.By VICTOR E. SASSONEditorNo. This post isn't about Staff Writer John Cichowski, whose Road Warrior column is known for hype, exaggeration and numerous inaccuracies, which may be caused by the aging reporter's confused state of mind.This is about Mike Kelly, whose Page 1 column...

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Crazy idea: New train station is open to the weather

The only doors at the new NJ Transit train station on Anderson Street in Hackensack are on two closets inside. On Sunday, a woman who said it is her job to clean stations didn't have a key to the closet with cleaning supplies.The station is open facing Anderson Street and facing the tracks, above.By VICTOR E. SASSONEditorWhen NJ Transit announced that it would replace the Anderson Street train station in Hackensack, it didn't mention that the $571,000...

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Too little, too late on road fund, GWB whitewash

In the all-electric Tesla Model S sedan, a 17-inch touch screen allows the owner to perform most of the functions controlled by buttons and switches in a conventional car.Tesla provided test drives and took deposits on three versions of the Model S at the Clinton Inn in Tenafly on Saturday. After April 15, New Jersey will bar the California-based company from selling cars directly from showrooms in Paramus and Short Hills, bowing to pressure from...

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Christie may be lying about GWB lane closures

In all of his self-serving statements about the early September George Washington Bridge lane closures in Fort Lee, above, Governor Christie has never spoken under oath. By VICTOR E. SASSONEditorThe latest developments in the Bridgegate scandal could be a modern spin on the Biblical story of "Samson and De Liar.""Samson" is Governor Christie's hand-picked Port Authority chairman, David Samson, a powerful New Jersey lawyer who has been called...

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Warning to GWB drivers: Christie whitewash ahead

Governor Christie was told about closure of two of the three George Washington Bridge local access lanes in Fort Lee, above, as they caused traffic gridlock in early September, in an apparent act of political retribution against the borough's Democratic mayor. Christie's response? He takes the out used by witnesses for decades: I don't recall.By VICTOR E. SASSONEditorIn their desperation to advance the whitewash clearing Governor Christie in the...

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For a change, positive news about health care

Hackensack crews appear to be waiting for warmer weather before patching these potholes on Prospect Avenue, near The Blair House, above, and at Prospect and Euclid avenues, below.By VICTOR E. SASSONEditorA 27-year-old graduate student is buying health insurance for a low $82 a month. A 29-year-old Clifton woman is paying even less, only $63 a month.Who knew policies under the federal Affordable Care Act were so, well, affordable?Certainly not readers...

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Even if no crime, it's time for Christie to bow out

Federal and state investigators are trying to determine if a crime was committed when members of Governor Christie's inner circle closed two of three access lanes to the upper level tollbooths of the George Washington Bridge, above, causing four days of gridlock in Democratic Fort Lee, The Record reports today.By VICTOR E. SASSONEditorCan we really believe a governor who claims he was kept out of the loop when his lieutenant governor, members of...

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Editors resume their public relations for Christie

In Fort Lee, construction work is under way on a site across Park Avenue from the 47-story residential tower that is visible from almost everywhere in the borough, above and below. There is no indication whether a second residential tower like the first is going up at the site, which also is across the street from the George Washington Bridge local access lanes that are at the center of the Bridgegate political-retribution scandal.By VICTOR E. SASSONEditorAll...

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Are editors doing enough to stop heroin deaths?

Have you seen any pothole-filling crews in Hackensack?By VICTOR E. SASSONEditorNewspaper readers are accustomed to seeing light, bright and tragic stories on the same front page.But Page 1 of The Record today sets a new low, devoting more space to a new Jets quarterback than to the rising number of heroin deaths in Bergen County (A-1).Couldn't Editor Marty Gottlieb find room in today's thin Sunday edition for a sidebar on whether customs officials,...

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Editors don't I.D. crime victim as NJMG developer

On River Street in Hackensack, customers actually line up and wait for a seat at White Manna, where they pay for the privilege of eating mystery meat and other unhealthy food.By VICTOR E. SASSONEditorIs the deal off between North Jersey Media Group and multimillionaire Fred Daibes for development of 20 acres in Hackensack where The Record prospered for more than 110 years?A story on the sale of Daibes' luxury St. Moritz high-rise in Edgewater appeared...

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