Just like the old days?

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Hackensack news for a fourth day in a row might lead you to think The Record of Woodland Park has suddenly decided to repent for the neglect of the past few years. But today's story is about yet another suit filed against suspended Police Chief Ken Zisa, and it's reported on Page L-3 in far too much detail by Staff Writer Monsy Alvarado.

No. This is business-as-usual for The Record, using a dramatic photo from Thailand all over Page 1, despite having basically ignored the protests there for months; running another nonsensical column by Mike Kelly, who for some unfathomable reason is rehashing the history of Xanadu and speculating on whether the retail and entertainment center can be saved; and reporting on Zisa's continuing legal problems at the expense of other, more important Hackensack news.

In Local, a story on the Englewood Council's school budget cuts is the first municipal story from that city since April 22, when a follow on the defeated tax levy was published. 


No food coverage can be found today in Better Living. Food Editor Bill Pitcher apparently was too exhausted after writing his restaurant review, which will appear tomorrow.

Judging by salaries in the newsroom that have become public record, Deirdre Sykes and Barbara Jaeger, the editors in charge of Local and Better Living, respectively, likely are paid more than $100,000 a year. Your guess is as good as mine as to what they do, because there is little evidence in the paper itself that they are earning the money.