Governor Christie's austere budget plan screws just about everybody but the Borgs and other wealthy families. But the front page of The Record of Woodland Park today tells us he's included $2.3 million for young people with autism.
Parents of autistic children and autism have been Page 1 news for years in The Record, thanks to a series of long, detailed stories by staff writers. Old people with Alzheimer's disease? They've been just about totally ignored by the former Hackensack daily.
About the only coverage you see of old people is when they crash their cars into a storefront, another car or another person, often with fatal results. Over the years, the paper has run numerous photos or briefs to document these accidents, but clueless head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her minions have never thought to launch a project on the challenges facing older drivers and whether there is help for them.
Has Christie included money in the state budget to help old people or ease the obesity epidemic? Does The Record know? Does it care?
Today brings extensive coverage in the main news section and Business of the impact of health-care reform on New Jersey. Can anyone digest the seemingly contradictory stories about employment in Business?
The news blackout of Hackensack continues in Local today, with the exception of two poorly edited stories on city police officers -- one shot and killed a lunging pit bull and the other was charged with crashing his car into another vehicle with a woman sleeping inside. The former story never says where the shooting occurred; the latter raises questions it never answers.
I've seen two detailed stories this week on possible cuts facing Passaic city schools, but not a single word about schools in Hackensack (old map above), where The Record was founded in 1895.
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