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| Double-decker train cars are NJ Transit's answer to continued crowding during rush hours, but riders on the upper level often hit their heads on the low, unpadded luggage rack. |
Editor Marty Gottlieb's continued focus on the presidential election today and Monday is cheating local readers.
In all the stories about the presidential debate and how the candidates' environmental and education policies might impact New Jersey, a fundamental question is left unanswered:
Can voters believe anything GOP hopeful Mitt Romney is saying in view of how many times he's changed his position on nearly everything?
Readers are bombarded with polls, but where is the report on the historical accuracy of these national voter surveys?
Should Borgs step up?
The lone North Jersey story on Monday's Page 1 reports last week's Action Against Hunger Food Drive didn't set records.
The food drive is organized by the North Jersey Media Group Foundation -- the so-called charitable arm of the company that publishes The Record and Herald News.
So, maybe it's time to ask why the wealthy and influential Borg family doesn't contribute a slice of their personal income to the drive.
If NJMG can afford to give Publisher Stephen A. Borg about $4.5 million in mortgages on two Tenafly homes in recent years, surely the Borgs can cough up some loose change for the hungry.
One-track coverage
The lead story on Monday's local front is head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' contribution to the paper's comprehensive coverage of mass transit and Hackensack.
The story -- about a 51-year-old woman killed on Saturday night by an NJ Transit train in Hackensack -- is filled with unanswered questions.
Why does NJ Transit leave unfenced block after block of track along Railroad Avenue, which runs through a residential neighborhood, and why doesn't it patrol that stretch day and night?
What kind of lighting is there at Central and Railroad avenues, where victim Leslie Seldin allegedly "went around the gates," according to NJ Transit?
Although Seldin was killed at night, a 12-year-old middle school student also was killed by a train on Railroad Avenue on the way home from school.
He might be alive today, if Hackensack offered school busing.
Story with no ending
On today's front page, another story on recent attempts to lure children in Westwood, Maywood and other communities pussy foots around the big question:
Are local police doing enough to protect residents (A-1)?
What's up, doc?
On today's Local front, Sykes gives readers another medical miracle -- a Wallington schoolgirl who is alive today thanks to a bone-marrow transplant from a Canadian woman.
That comes a day after the heart-warming story of a Fort Lee High School student who is raising awareness about the shortage of organ donors and organs (L-1 on Monday).
Car-crash news
Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza, were a little short of news and enterprise photos, hence the non-fatal accident photo used as filler on L-3 today.
The photo caption is missing the cause of the accident, the names of the drivers, their condition and what hospital is treating them.
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