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On Page 1 of The Record today, the Hackensack reporter is writing about a hardware store in Glen Rock.
Readers of the Local front try to figure out what Road Warrior John Cichowski is trying to say about GPS systems -- especially the large majority of drivers who don't have them and spend most of the time lost because of lousy road signs.
Promoting business
In every section today, Editor Marty Gottlieb and his subeditors seem so bored with their job of covering local news that they often chase after the irrelevant or end up promoting a commercial agenda.
Most of L-1 is devoted to a story by Jay Levin, the local obituary writer, on efforts by North Jersey towns to control the spread of dog shit.
No Hackensack news
There is no Hackensack news in today's paper, but an L-3 story lists eight streets in Rutherford that will be repaired.
Vacant stares
Why should shoppers care about vacant stores on Routes 4 and 17 (Business front)?
Similarly, why should restaurant goers care about the problems of chefs selling barbecue in North Jersey -- especially in The Corner Table, a column that is supposed to be devoted to customers' issues (Better Living front)?
Too bad a sappy Father's Day column by Kelly appears on the same page with far more compelling reading -- an upbeat piece on the challenge to the health-care law and another on the criminality embodied by Richard Nixon (Opinion front).
Wealth management
In view of how most people can't afford a second home on the New Jersey shore, why do the insensitive editors flaunt the wealth of North Jerseyans who buy "bargain" vacations home in Europe (Real Estate front)?
Travel-section weary
Talk about being out-of-touch.
Three of the four shore restaurants recommended by Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill are in far-off Wildwood and Atlantic City (Travel front).
What about the shore north of Asbury Park? Are all those places serving swill?
She promotes American Cut in Atlantic City, a steakhouse that charges $26 to $135 for entrees, but she doesn't say whether the beef is naturally raised or filled with harmful additives.
There was no story in The Record of the protest rally at police headquarters in Garfield on Saturday in the Malik Williams shooting. The activists were also calling for the ouster of police chief Kevin Amos. I had to find the story at NJ.Com.I found it extensive in coverage of the issues.
ReplyDeleteConcerning Mike Kelly's story about chromium contamination in Garfield, I think he missed a few questions he could have asked Mayor Frank Calandriello. Why was a business owned by Calandriello cleaned up before more residential properties? Isn't it procedure in cleanups to remediate private homes before commercial properties? Why those small amount of homes and businesses Kelly cites?
I believe the mayor is a Republican. Due to funding cuts to federal programs like the Superfund insisted upon by GOP representatives in Washington, citizens in towns like Garfield have no recourse in ridding their community of pollutants. Evidently though Frankie was Expressed to the top of the clean up list.