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| Next week, a jury is expected to begin weighing official misconduct and other charges against suspended Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa and his ex-girlfriend. |
Looking at The Record's front page today and on Friday, readers in Hackensack were greeted by something they rarely see -- news of their city.
On Friday, a large A-1 photo showed high school students leaving early to protest the school board's decision to block contract renewal for three administrators.
Today, Editor Marty Gottlieb presents another A-1 story, this one on closing arguments in the official misconduct trial of suspended Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa.
What is remarkable about today's Zisa story is that it is the most even-handed account of the prosecution and defense cases since the trial began in Superior Court.
Zisa family rule
City residents, who have been chafing under Zisa family rule for decades, hope the chief and former assemblyman and his former girlfriend will be convicted on the charges, which include witness tampering, insurance fraud and conspiracy.
Also today, a story on the Local front reports what happened at an emergency meeting of the school board on Thursday night -- early deadlines or laziness kept this story out of Friday's paper.
Two trustees explained they blocked the rehiring of the three administrators in an attempt to end "what they called a network of cronyism and patronage."
Sudden news spurt
Indeed, all this A-1 news about Ken "I Am The Law" Zisa and alleged school patronage makes readers think:
Editor Deirdre Sykes and all of the other heavyweights running the assignment desk suddenly awoke from their collective diabetic coma, looked out their Woodland Park windows and realized they weren't covering Hackensack anymore.
Back to India
The lead A-1 stories today and Friday are about the sentencing of homophobe Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers student who drove poor Tyler Clementi of Ridgewood to suicide.
Let's hope he gets deported, even if he escapes prison, and takes his superior ways back to India, where there are millions of unfortunates he can mock and scorn.
Millionaires' pal
Was anyone surprised by Governor Christie's veto of affordable health insurance for those without it (A-1 on Friday)?
If it doesn't involve millionaires and multimillionaires, Christie can't be bothered. That's why Publisher Stephen A. Borg's editors praise the GOP bully so highly.
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