Here's a lot more news you can't use

George Washington Bridge at night.

When Governor Christie grants an audience to The Record's unnamed editorial board, the editors fall all over themselves to save a slice of the front page for every juicy morsel from the Republican pit bull.

As you can see from today's front page, there is no "news" here -- just more divisive partisan rhetoric blaming the Democrats for everything that has gone wrong since Christie took office, including a state economy that can't get out of low gear.

What a dismal front page, and you won't find much else in an edition that seems designed to put you back to sleep. 

Instead of humoring Christie's chest thumping on Page 1, Editor Marty Gottlieb should have given better play to the governor saying he's disappointed in the Jets and Giants trying to stop the expansion of American Dream Meadowlands (A-6). 

Celebrity pest

It's too bad actor Andy Griffith died, but do we have to endure Bill Ervolino's fascination with the "television legend" (A-1)?

I'd much rather read about an interesting local resident, such as the 93-year-old man I met the other day in the Stop & Shop in Teaneck who still goes to the office.

Sports betting at Monmouth Park in the fall? Who cares, except gambling addicts who get high on the smell of horse shit (A-1)?

Pass the toilet paper

On the Local front, head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes approved a Road Warrior column on "those little pieces of paper police hand out," instead of helping ease the commute of tens of thousands of readers (L-1).

Anyone who tries to read John Cichowski today will need their own little pieces of paper, the ones you use in the toilet.

Where's the local angle?

On the first Business page, a story about low lobster prices in Maine should appeal to the handful of readers who have a second home there, such as Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill (L-7 and L-8).

The rest of us would like to know whether those low prices will be seen in North Jersey, too.

That's news we could really use.