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| The Record hasn't explained why New York can't do work on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge at night -- the plan on the so-called Route 495 helix into the Lincoln Tunnel. |
Did you see the big Hackensack news in The Record today?
A city resident was arrested in Nutley by a multi-county burglary task force (L-2).
The photo of the smiling suspect, Hakeem Chance, could have been submitted at an American Idol audition.
On Friday, the big Hackensack news was testing of city children for lead poisoning (L-3).
NJMG abandons city
There was no word on whether city residents will be tested for withdrawal symptoms from the lack of Hackensack news since North Jersey Media Group pulled out in 2009.
Hackensack was the former home of The Record, which prospered there for more than 110 years. Now, the city is fading into history.
Traffic makes the news
The off-lead story on Friday's Page 1 was a follow-up on an earlier story predicting a "looming" traffic nightmare on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge.
There was no explanation in either story why the work on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge in New York can't be done at night, as will be the case on Route 495, the so-called helix into the Lincoln Tunnel.
Ambulance chasing
Scrambling for local news on Friday, head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza, had to run a photo of cops and a dog searching for a "person of interest" in Englewood (L-2), and another photo of a pickup truck fire not far from the Woodland Park newsroom (L-3).
On Friday's L-6, a terrific local obituary profiled an "interesting person" -- Jack Slier, a Fort Lee man who commanded cargo ships until he was 81.
Not worth a detour
In Better Living on Friday, a lukewarm review ensures few people outside Cresskill will try an Italian restaurant called Spasso (BL-16 and 17).
But Staff Writer Elisa Ung couldn't hide her obsession with artery clogging desserts, listing two of them among the four dishes she recommends.
The week before, Ung reviewed an Indian restaurant in God-forsaken Secaucus, and before that places in Mahwah and West Milford, as she continues to nibble around the edges of the circulation area.
Indulging Christie
How can Editor Marty Gottlieb keep on quoting Governor Christie on the state's so-called comeback and keep on running such Page 1 stories as today's account of the GOP bully seizing up to $200 million in affordable housing funds to balance the budget?
Remember when Christie pulled the plug on construction of Hudson River rail tunnels, then seized $1.8 billion in tunnel funds from the Port Authority to fix roads?
That way he could keep his pledge not to raise taxes -- in this case the low gasoline tax, which funds the state's Transportation Trust Fund.
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