$230,000 a year? For what?

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Flip to Page L-2 in The Record of Woodland Park today and prepare to be outraged, even if you don't live in Teaneck. The district's schools are hiring a new chief for $230,000 a year. Is that a typo? 

With state aid cuts and Governor Christie's call for a teacher wage freeze all over the front page, including today, how does any town facing higher school taxes and staff reductions agree to such an inflated salary for a superintendent? And how does Staff Writer Joseph Ax just drop that bomb on readers and residents without providing any context?

Don't look for education news or any other story about Hackensack today, because you won't find any. Are Hackensack reporter Monsy Alvarado and her clueless head assignment editor, Deirdre Sykes, napping at their desks?

Page L-6 tells us the Paramus police chief -- one of 70 in Bergen County -- is retiring at an annual salary of nearly $184,000. Don't you love home rule? When is your next property tax bill due? Has Christie cut it yet or just screwed everybody but the rich?

There's compelling news on the front of Local. True. The Record hasn't had a municipal story about Hackensack since Dec. 22, excluding the legal troubles of the police chief and police officers' disciplinary hearings.

But at least today, the lazy, incompetent editors update us on the "third phase" of renovations to sleepy Demarest's old train station.

In the interest of full disclosure, shouldn't the former Hackensack daily identify Staff Writer Elizabeth Llorente as a Cuban exile -- especially when she reports on Cuba, as she does today on Page A-4?

Has The Record carried any positive stories about the island in the past decade? Did the newspaper even mention all the Cuban doctors who were working in Haiti and tended to the sick and injured after the earthquake? (Photo: Cuban flag.)