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On Page 1 today, Staff Writer Juliet Fletcher has finally exposed how little money is being saved by Governor Christie's so-called reform of state workers' health benefits.
The GOP bully has done wonders distracting The Record and other media from his refusal to tax millionaires, while he demonizes unions and penalizes other members of the middle class.
Now, it seems, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is revising his own stance on not taxing the wealthy, saying he wants to reform his state's tax code "in a way that creates jobs and grows our economy."
Christie, on the other hand, has been a job killer, principally by pulling the plug on the Hudson River rail tunnels. Now, he supports millions of dollars in tax breaks to get businesses to hire more people.
Bloody Tuesday
Factory farms kill millions of animals every year -- and millions of unwanted pets are destroyed, as well -- so why is the black-bear hunt front-page news today?
One hunter is actually quoted as saying part of the allure of hunting is "not hearing any horns honking," but apparently frequent gunshots are music to hos ears (A-6).
More ageism
An editorial on A-18 says a proposal requiring more driver training for teens with learner's permits "goes too far." But I haven't seen an editorial calling for retesting older drivers behind the wheel to cut down the number of people they kill.
A local obituary makes a rare appearance on the front of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section today -- about a Fort Lee teen who died of diabetes -- while the obituaries of older, far more prominent residents are buried on the obit page.
Isn't that more ageism by The Record's editors, already famous for helping Publisher Stephen A. Borg treat older newsroom workers like shit?
Free advertising
There is no Hackensack news in the section today, but a developer must have slipped Sykes or her assignment minions a few thousand dollars to publish the lavishly promotional story about "luxury manor homes" in Saddle River (L-3).
Call it a free advertisement with headlines, and a royal F.U. to all those readers who face foreclosure.
In fact, Sykes managed to come up with so little local news, layout editors were forced to run two wire-service obituaries of obscure people on L-6.
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