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The Record is looking more and more like an official Republican Party organ, especially with the main elements on both Page 1 and the Local front today devoted to a celebration of the GOP's selfish conservatism.
On A-1, the outcome of the Republicans' hayseed vote wasn't known until well past the paper's deadline, but the headline had presidential overtones:
A seesaw struggle
Romney and Santorum neck and neck in Iowa caucuses
Hey, interim Editor Douglas Clancy, are more than four people in North Jersey interested in this story? That's the best you could do for the front page?
Copping out
The off-lead is more relevant -- the Elmwood Park police chief and six other retiring cops are entitled to a total of $1.2 million for unused sick days and other time off (A-1).
Though the story notes Governor Christie wants to end such payouts for public employees, there's no discussion of why he hasn't capped police chiefs' ridiculously high salaries, as he's done for school superintendents.
Then, the third A-1 story is so poorly edited the first paragraph leads readers to believe the scandalous quid pro quo in Dumont occurred Tuesday night, when, in fact, it occurred at a meeting Dec. 23.
Two embarrassing corrections appear on A-2 today, including the corrected photo of the Saddle Brook police chief.
More GOP news
In head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section, I looked quickly at the big photo on L-1 and thought it was from "The Biggest Loser," but it turned out to be Christie at the swearing in of Fair Lawn's Republican mayor.
Is this the best local news Sykes could muster today?
Road Warrior John Cichowski's stale L-1 column is the third in a row based on readers' e-mails, which deal with such monumental issues as whether drivers can use debit cards at the MVC.
More police news
Hackensack reporter Stephanie Akin reports on the swearing in of the city's first Muslim police officer, Mohammad Sheikh, who had been laid off in Paterson (L-3).
It's good to see some Hackensack news in the paper, but 97% of those stories are about suspended Police Chief Ken Zisa and cops who have sued him or have been charged administratively by him.
Sykes demoted to L-3 an amusing story on Rep. Steve Rothman, D-Fair Lawn, and Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, attending the same Bergen County Freeholder Board Reorganization meeting on Tuesday night in Hackensack.
Perfect photo
There's a great a photo of a glum Rothman, a smiling Pacrell and a goatee-wearing John Molinelli, the county prosecutor, who is sitting between them.
The two congressmen will be facing each other in the November election, because Rothman is too much of a coward to take on right-wing conservative Rep. Scott Garret, R-Wantage.
In Better Living, Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill tries to make amends for all the unhealthy recipes she published in 2011 by offering readers "Yellow Winter Vegetable Soup," the first recipe of the new year (F-1).
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