A truly boring newspaper -- from front to back

As a resident of Euclid Avenue in Hackensack, what do I get for the third-quarter property tax payment of $3,765.65 I made today? Mine was the only block of Euclid that wasn't repaved this month. I do thank Police Director Mike Mordaga for a newly invigorated Police Department, but other agencies fall short. The Building Department, in particular, has turned a deaf ear to neighbors' complaints about 177 Euclid Ave. and 311 Euclid Ave., two homes with numerous violations that have been evident for years.

By Victor E. Sasson
Editor

What is the point of the front-page story on how onetime inner-city deli owner Pedro Quezada is spending the $338 million he won in the lottery?

The multimillionaire moved out of his 2-bedroom walk-up in Passaic? That's Page 1 news?

What readers and former employees of The Record really want to know is how Publisher Stephen A. Borg has spent the many millions he has drained out of North Jersey Media Group, and whether that money could have preserved jobs or improved local news coverage?

If you think the front page is bad, you won't find much else in the paper that reflects life in North Jersey.

Cairo at night?

I read and re-read the hundreds of words on a curfew in Cairo (no, not the city in Illinois), and couldn't find anything on what time it goes into effect (A-6).

The story by The Associated Press also doesn't address how night workers in the sprawling Egyptian city get to their jobs and then home during the curfew.

When is The Record going to do a story about night workers in North Jersey, including the faceless drones who work on the Woodland Park daily's copy desk under the incompetent supervision of Production Editor Liz Houlton, "The Queen of Errors"?

Christie idolatry

Looking for a good laugh?

Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin -- the paper's Chief Bullshit Artist -- can't hide his affection for Governor Christie in an editorial claiming $1 million in federal seed money is "another example of Christie bipartisanship working for the good of New Jersey" (A-10).

Unfortunately, development of "smart-grid" technology for NJ Transit won't add a single rush-hour seat to overcrowded buses and trains.

And thanks to the GOP bully, expansion of the rail and bus systems is a decade away -- despite nightmarish traffic jams at the Hudson River crossings.

More road kill

Staff Writer John Cichowski, aka "The Addled Commuter," wastes another Road Warrior column on Don Quinn, the moron who tried to warn speeders about police radar (L-1).

Cichowski is breathing a sigh of relief that he was able to fool his clueless editors into running another silly column that didn't require him to leave the office and explore real commuting problems.

Still selling out

With the state's economy in such poor shape, you'd think the editors of the Business pages would have lots of localized stories for readers.

But that assumes they aren't lazy good for nothings who run stories promoting the Borg family's friends and business associates.

Today, they filled their pages with a big photo of a Mazda assembly line in Japan (L-8) that refers readers to another big photo and a long, wildly exaggerated story on the same subject on the facing page (L-9).

The claim that Mazda rolls out a vehicle "every 54 seconds" at a  plant in Hofu, Japan, couldn't possibly include the time it takes to stamp fenders and other body parts, and paint them.