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Take a photo almost anywhere in the borough of Fort Lee and you'll see what it's known for: Many high-rises. (Wikipedia)
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By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Health insurance for nearly everyone is long overdue, so why are the moneyed elite so upset that Congress is mandating that everyone buy health coverage or pay a penalty?
The Record and other media are using this controversy to sell papers, carefully avoiding any mention of all the government mandates we live under already (A-1).
The government forces us to buy auto insurance and, if we work, to contribute to Social Security, unemployment compensation and other funds. We must have a license to drive, and on and on.
Are the Supreme Court justices, who must have incredible health insurance, really the right people to decide the constitutionality of the national health care law?
Who is the Boss?
Don't you love that story on A-3 today about Governor Christie asking Bruce Springsteen to perform at the new Revel Resort and Casino in Atlantic City?
Too bad Staff Writers John Brennan and Jim Beckerman forgot to tell readers Springsteen refused to perform at the GOP bully's inauguration in 2010.
Or that Christie is taking credit for all of the "working men and women" employed by Revel who won't be able to afford to stay in one of the $400-a-night rooms.
Hanson and Borg
The other story on A-3 quotes Christie as praising the role of adviser Jon Hanson in Revel and American Dreams Meadowlands (formerly Xanadu).
But Brennan again to fails to mention the real estate mogul is best friends with Chairman Malcolm A. "Mac" Borg or that they co-own a business jet.
High-rise borough
What is all the hand-wringing and editorial angst over Planning Board approval of two 47-story residential towers in Fort Lee (A-1 on Tuesday and A-22 editorial today)?
The borough has long been known for high-rises, traffic congestion and a prime terrorist target, the George Washington Bridge.
Readers write column
On the front of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section, Road Warrior John Cichowski is back doing what he does best -- basing his silly column on reader e-mails and avoiding any exploration of commuting problems.
On Monday's front page, The Record previewed the start of suspended Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa's criminal trial, but the testimony still is not under way.
Sykes loves Zisa
How embarrassing for Sykes. Stories Tuesday (L-1) and today (L-3) have tried to explain the delay, but Monday's story was premature and should have run the day testimony starts.
The Local section today and Tuesday had no Hackensack municipal news, but readers on Tuesday found non-fatal fire and accident photos on L-1 and L-2.
You must be new in town.
ReplyDeleteFort Lee isn't known for its high-rises as much as it's known for its bridge.
It's probably known more for its Korean influx than it is the high-rises.
Why are they up in arms if they're already used to tall buildings? Count how many stories are in Fort Lee's existing buildings, then double the height. That's why people are up in arms.
Perhaps if you were more familiar with the area.
I don't live in Fort Lee nor would I ever want to, given the incompetent government residents have to contend with.
ReplyDeleteFort Lee is well-known for the decades-old eyesore of empty land and vacant stores near the bridge that would be developed with the new towers.
Long before the Koreans arrived, Fort Lee was known for its Japanese residents and its high-rises.
I wouldn't care if they built 20 more high-rises in the borough -- two or three times higher than existing buildings. The residents can NIMBY all they want, but the town is desperate for ratables.