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| Image via Wikipedia The Port Authority refuses to fund an expansion of PATH. |
The Record's relentless focus on Port Authority mismanagement, World Trade Center cost overruns and overtime hides what a lousy job it has done as the region's biggest transportation agency.
Mass-transit commuters -- abandoned long ago by Road Warrior John Cichowski -- find little solace in today's Page 1 story about billions more for the new trade center or the A-6 sidebar on all the extra pay PA workers are collecting.
Interim Editor Doug Clancy and Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes continue to give the powerful bi-state agency a pass on its failure to expand the PATH system or add a second reverse bus lane into the Lincoln Tunnel.
Doing double takes
Meanwhile, Sykes' local-news report continues to disappoint.
The editor is so desperate to fill space in her section -- misnamed "Local" -- she has reporters write long, detailed previews and then cover the event, ensuring the same story appears in the paper twice and fills a maximum amount of space.
Today, for example, Sykes leads her section with another in a long, tedious series of stories on legal maneuvering in a criminal case against suspended Hackesnack Police Chief Ken Zisa. The preview ran Dec. 3.
Giving us a break
Better Living breaks new ground today, publishing recipes that contain no artery clogging butter or heavy cream.
In fact, the dessert-obsessed restaurant reviewer, Elisa Ung, breaks her own new ground with a story on an Italian feast of seven fishes (F-1 and F-8).
Cookies play a minor role in the meal and in her report.
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