Christie's frequent hand jobs are the only 'job' he is doing

A smaller number of homes on Clinton Place in Hackensack have been decorated for Halloween than in past years. Does the addition of a lawn sign suggest that this candidate's campaign is dead or that he wants the dead to vote for him?By VICTOR E. SASSONEDITORThe Record keeps on quoting Governor Christie as saying he is doing his job, but his constituents are baffled by the claim.On Wednesday, Christie bullied a former Asbury Park councilman who protested...

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A fading Christie lacks the temperament to be president

On Saturday, The Record reported twice on the front page that Hackensack University Medical Center's mobile treatment unit for potential Ebola cases is "behind" a McDonald's on Essex and South Newman streets in Hackensack. But that's not the case. The hospital-owned lot is actually between the McDonald's and NJ Transit's Essex Street Station.In today's paper, a front-page photo caption says the mobile treatment unit is "near a McDonald's." City officials...

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Why is Publisher Stephen A. Borg's hair turning gray?

Shuttered businesses in Englewood, above and below, cast doubt on the strategies of officials there and in Hackensack to revive their business districts by building more apartments downtown, as reported today and Monday in The Record.Landlords charging high rents could be causing business failures in Englewood in Hackensack, not the lack of foot traffic.By VICTOR E. SASSONEDITORStephen A. Borg of Tenafly is president of North Jersey Media Group and...

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Ebola hits newsroom, editors feed media hysteria

Park Avenue in Park Ridge also is called James Gandolfini Way. The Ridge Diner's coffee is good enough to drink black, but if you order a cafe latte, it will be served sweetened and with whipped cream on top. Yuck.By VICTOR E. SASSONEDITORThe irresponsible editors at The Record aren't even waiting for the first confirmed case of Ebola in New Jersey.Joining the electronic media's hysteria, the Woodland Park daily today and Saturday broke out the big,...

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Overplayed, incomprehensible and a huge waste of time

Aggressive police ready to pounce on any driver who doesn't yield to a pedestrian in the many crosswalks are the least of your problems, if you use Cedar Lane in Teaneck as a route to Englewood. The four-lane street through the township's main business district narrows, above, causing conflicts with other motorists, and the many slow, older drivers act as moving road blocks.By VICTOR E. SASSONEDITORReaders who don't choke on the lead paragraph of...

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Christie move helped mobster, Garrett opposed cops

An NJ Transit train stopping at the Anderson Street Station in Hackensack. Governor Christie's decision to cancel the Hudson River rail tunnels stuck the mass-transit agency with an $8.1 million debt to the family of a jailed mobster, The Record reports today.By VICTOR E. SASSONEDITORYou could call today's paper the mean-spirited-Republican edition -- with stories on Governor Christie and Rep. Scott Garrett, and their opposition to everything good...

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Editors continue to ignore the issues facing voters

A rare sight at the Lincoln Tunnel: Hardly any waiting at the tollbooths.By VICTOR E. SASSONEDITORWith only two weeks to go before the Nov. 4 election, readers aren't seeing much coverage of the issues -- what the candidates believe in and what they propose to do to help New Jersey and the region.Stories about candidates on A-3 and L-1 of The Record today reflect the editors' continuing obsession with politics.Two other stories, on L-3, do involve...

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Why are the editors going easy on Rep. Scott Garrett?

Someone used a shopping cart at Target in Hackensack to "recycle" several items today, including a plastic toilet seat and cover, above.Not far away was this pair of children's shoes, above and below.By VICTOR E. SASSONEDITORScott Garrett, the conservative Republican seeking a seventh term in Congress, is ducking out of a candidate forum tonight and a debate with his Democratic challenger.But you wouldn't know that from The Record today.A rambling...

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Are the reporters or editors the real problem?

NJ Transit's No. 165 Turnpike Express, which I boarded in Hackensack, approaching the ramp to the problem-plagued Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan on a wet Thursday morning. Why is The Record's chief transportation reporter writing about the rebuilding of a church today? One of the few improvements in recent months are touch-screen terminals to help commuters find the platform where they can catch the bus back to New Jersey....

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Editors taunt Hackensack with medical center's success

One of NJ Transit's roomy double-decker trains pulling into the Clifton station last Monday. Clifton is one of the few stations with a free parking lot for commuters.Upper deck or lower? Avoid the train's poorly designed upper deck, with its low, head-cracking metal luggage rack. The lower deck, shown here, is a far better bet.By VICTOR E. SASSONEDITORThe Record's breathless front-page account today of another Hackensack University Medical Center...

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