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Why is the possible move of a UPS data center to Woodland Park from Paramus on Page 1 of The Record today?
The daily newspaper and its corporate parent, North Jersey Media Group, made a similar move in 2009, abandoning Hackensack and ending up in a nondescript office building on Garret Mountain in the former West Paterson.
The borough is best known for changing its name to separate itself in the public mind from the poverty and crime of Paterson.
Meanwhile, the royal Borgs have kept a lid on what will happen to the property at 150 River St. The Record's old headquarters are an eyesore, and dumpsters have reappeared in the parking lot.
Musical seats
NJ Transit's biggest problem in recent years has been an inability to provide enough seats on its buses and trains during the rush hour, a mass-transit crisis The Record has ignored.
But after more than 300 NJ Transit locomotives and rail cars were damaged during Superstorm Sandy, readers have seen an endless stream of stories, editorials and, now, a Road Warrior column on the subject (L-1).
Four reporters worked on a news story reporting the testimony of NJ Transit's executive director to the Assembly Transportation Committee on Monday, and the story appeared on A-3 on Tuesday.
So, why is Staff Writer John Cichowski rehashing that testimony in his Road Warrior column today?
In foreign news
An L-3 story was missing the address or even the street where a Bogota couple have allowed their property to become overgrown.
The story reports they have been found guilty of five property maintenance violations and fined $2,800 -- and that's on top of the $2,000 in fines they paid in the summer.
The couple are shown in a photo on their overgrown property.
Did the reporter leave out the address? Or was it head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes, Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza or one of their minions?
Which one of the copy editors failed to notice that important piece of information was missing, and where was Production Editor Liz Houlton?
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