Borgs can keep more of their money

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The Record of Woodland Park carries good news today for wealthy families like the Borgs, who control North Jersey Media Group. Governor Christie opposes renewing a tax on the wealthy that expired Jan. 1.

The stories, on Page A-4, call it a "millionaires tax," although it's unclear whether it applied to people making more than $400,000 or $500,000, because both figures appear. More sloppy copy editing.

More inattentive copy editing raises questions about whether Staff Writer Joseph Ax and Staff Photographer Tariq Zehawi have returned from Haiti. On Wednesday, their story appeared inside on A-6, but without a dateline, usually a sign that they had returned (the big Page 1 news that day was "sexting"). And on Thursday, no story from them appeared.

But today, they are back on the front page, where their first three dispatches appeared, with a dateline, and the text refers to events of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

In Local, Road Warrior Columnist John Cichowski finds yet another excuse to avoid writing about the lousy local bus service -- well within his mission of covering commuting issues -- and more precious space on the front is wasted on the old Giants Stadium. All of this is probably an attempt by the lazy, desperate and incompetent editors to distract readers who won't find any Teaneck (photo) or Hackensack news in the paper.

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But Englewood reporter Giovanna Fabiano finally appears for the first time in nearly two weeks with a story on how that city is proposing a hefty 10.5% property tax hike -- news that is sure to upset NJMG Chairman Malcolm A. 'Mac' Borg, who lives in an East Hill mansion, and all those residents who send their kids to private schools to avoid segregated elementary and middle schools.
  
Fabioano's story raises more questions than it answers. For example, does the goal of reducing police overtime by more than $500,000 mean the city department is short of officers, and is that deliberate, as it was in the past?

In Better Living,  Restaurant Reviewer Bill Pitcher finds that Legal Sea Foods in Paramus is showing its age after nine years, with service and food lapses, and a dirty bathroom. The two-star rating equates it with Bahama Breeze, the faux-Caribbean chain restaurant on the highway in Wayne.

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For yet another week, no Wyckoff restaurants are listed in the abbreviated health inspections report.