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Does anybody but all those greedy Republicans read the boring column by Staff Writer Charles Stile, whose speculation about "a big year ahead for Jersey politics" is on Page 1 of The Record today?
Since Governor Christie took office nearly three years ago, Stile has sounded a lot more like the GOP bully's personal public relations flack and a lot less like the journalist he pretends to be.
Today, he looks into his crystal ball and reports "Christie ... will find himself under the microscope from voters, journalists and political operatives around the country ...."
Wait a minute. Christie took office in January 2010, so why is it just now that he'll find himself "under the microscope" of journalists? What a joke.
Stile says the governor has "star power."
For whom? His conservative supporters, who are counting on him to preserve tax breaks for millionaires and other regressive policies.
Reporter leaves office
On the Local front today, Road Warrior John Cichowski's column appears to be based on his own reporting -- not e-mails from readers who want to see their names in print and not all those statistics he obsesses over.
Cichowski actually got in his car and drove to the Fort Lee side of the George Washington Bridge, where commuters get a free ride to the city from drivers seeking a carpool toll of $4.25 for having two passengers in their cars.
Readers in dark
But the so-called commuting columnist fails to tell readers that all of them can register their E-ZPasses once and then pay the same low carpool toll at all hours at Hudson River crossings -- a savings of up to $6.
All they have to do is stop in a cash lane so the toll collector can confirm they have two passengers -- their wives, kids, friends, it doesn't matter.
A couple of dead bodies or dummies might qualify, if it's dark.
Threepeats
On L-2 today, a story about the cushiest job in local policing reports the retiring Alpine police chief was paid $172,000 this year -- one of the few making less than Christie.
The local staff under head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza, appears to be obsessed with the number 3, even though it is Jan. 2.
According to L-1 headlines, "3 violent incidents open 2013" and "Three babies are born in first 3 minutes of 2013."
On L-2, the Alpine police chief is retiring after 30 years -- that's 3 times 10.
On L-3, a headline says the "year begins with only a few [3] DWI arrests" and another reports "3-vehicle Hillsdale accident puts 3 in the hospital."
