On the way home Friday night, I drove through darkened streets and past inoperable traffic lights from Fort Lee to Hackensack.
Hackensack's Main Street and River Street, lined with many restaurants and other businesses, looked abandoned.
Much of the Fairmount section also was without power.
Today, police said Public Service Electric and Gas Co. is promising restoration of electricity in "another four or five days."
Another storm?
That's when a nor'easter may hit as a follow-up to Hurricane Sandy, which knocked out power to millions of homes and businesses in New Jersey this past Monday.
Even though Hackensack is Bergen County's most populace community and the county seat, not a word about its stricken downtown appears in The Record today.
PSE&G's incompetence is only matched by the incompetence of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her lazy sidekick, Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza.
The randomness of outages also is apparent -- from isolated businesses with electricity to one working traffic light in a string of dark ones.
Downplaying anger
Where did Editor Marty Gottlieb play the story of town officials' growing frustration with the glacial pace of restoring power?
Not on the front page where it belongs, but on Sykes' Local front.
The only good thing about the super storm is that The Record is finally paying attention to the region's overburdened mass-transit system.
That coverage isn't coming from Road Warrior John Cichowski, the so-called commuting columnist.
The paper's gardening columnist, Ray Edel, writes today about how to deal with damaged trees, but he was co-opted by Cichowski, who devoted his entire Friday column to trees.
Scandale's exit
That's what he did last year after the freak pre-Halloween snow storm that hit North Jersey and took out Francis "Frank" Scandale, who had been editor for more than a decade.
The bungled coverage of the 2011 storm apparently was too much for Publisher Stephen A. Borg.
Is Borg paying attention now to Sykes' woefully incomplete local coverage of Sandy?
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| The Record's old headquarters loomed over a dark River Street on Friday night. |
On the way home Friday night, I drove through darkened streets and past inoperable traffic lights from Fort Lee to Hackensack.
Hackensack's Main Street and River Street, lined with many restaurants and other businesses, looked abandoned.
Much of the Fairmount section also was without power.
Today, police said Public Service Electric and Gas Co. is promising restoration of electricity in "another four or five days."
Another storm?
That's when a nor'easter may hit as a follow-up to Hurricane Sandy, which knocked out power to millions of homes and businesses in New Jersey this past Monday.
Even though Hackensack is Bergen County's most populace community and the county seat, not a word about its stricken downtown appears in The Record today.
PSE&G's incompetence is only matched by the incompetence of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her lazy sidekick, Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza.
The randomness of outages also is apparent -- from isolated businesses with electricity to one working traffic light in a string of dark ones.
Downplaying anger
Where did Editor Marty Gottlieb play the story of town officials' growing frustration with the glacial pace of restoring power?
Not on the front page where it belongs, but on Sykes' Local front.
The only good thing about the super storm is that The Record is finally paying attention to the region's overburdened mass-transit system.
That coverage isn't coming from Road Warrior John Cichowski, the so-called commuting columnist.
The paper's gardening columnist, Ray Edel, writes today about how to deal with damaged trees, but he was co-opted by Cichowski, who devoted his entire Friday column to trees.
Scandale's exit
That's what he did last year after the freak pre-Halloween snow storm that hit North Jersey and took out Francis "Frank" Scandale, who had been editor for more than a decade.
The bungled coverage of the 2011 storm apparently was too much for Publisher Stephen A. Borg.
Is Borg paying attention now to Sykes' woefully incomplete local coverage of Sandy?
I imagine with no lights, it was 'SPOOKY' in ole, downtrodden Hackensack.
ReplyDeleteNot at all. It's people like you who are truly scary.
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