Another wasted front page

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The jock-itching, ass-slapping editors of The Record of  Woodland Park may think a former baseball player's substance-abuse problems are top-of-the-front-page news today, but I'm sure a majority of long-suffering readers see it as a slap in the face.

"Burglary spree hits Asian shops" is the headline over the biggest element on Page 1 today -- complete with a map and three photos. Interesting, but so what? The reporter lets the A-1 play go to her head and actually quotes a professor of criminal justice on why the suspects are hitting cash businesses. Maybe it's just payback for all the lousy takeout they've eaten (photo).

The lazy, incompetent editors could have fashioned a great front page from the story at the bottom of A-1 -- Governor Christie appears to have dropped his ill-advised plan to dismantle Bergen County blue laws -- and a second story on the front of Local about the governor campaigning for a teacher pay freeze in Ramsey.

After all, in about two months, Christie has become the official many of us love to hate.

On L-1, Columnist Mike Kelly has another ridiculous column, this one on a tree doctor who saved a millionaire's trees in Alpine. Hey, Mike, you're the one who needs a doctor. Another day of "every day" education coverage passes without word of cuts facing Hackensack schools.