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| The Hackensack City Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday has been moved to July 22 at 7 p.m., according to the city's Web site. But the Committee of the Whole is still meeting this coming Monday night at 7. The meetings are held on the 3rd Floor of City Hall, above. |
By Victor E. Sasson
Editor
Just like the vast majority of readers, I am not one of those sports fanatics who follow every move by that other Victor.
But here is the lead Page 1 story in The Record today telling one and all that pro football player Victor Cruz is just a regular Joe.
Apparently, Cruz has signed a $43 million deal, but still eats mystery meat at the diner, drops off his own clothes at the cleaner and, get this, shows respect to the immigrant Korean owner.
What a guy.
But, hey, when did Cruz move out of Paterson and into a condo in Lyndhurst? The story raises other questions, but doesn't answer them.
Indigestible
Editor Marty Gottlieb should know that if you are going to use the hackneyed device of a sports star's friendship with a diner waitress, you should say whether that star is a good tipper, too.
Cruz spoke out against gun violence after the elementary school slaughter in Connecticut late last year.
So, will he use a hundred thousand dollars or so of his $43 million to sponsor a gun buy-back program in Paterson, which is known for drive-by shootings and other gun violence?
The city's do-nothing Police Department and its overpaid chief certainly could use his help.
The rest of today's front page is forgettable.
Column hog
Lane Laggard John Cichowski is back with another silly Road Warrior column, just a day after his wildly hyped Page 1 "expose" of lower-level GWB toll lanes that have been unstaffed for nearly 10 years (L-1).
Today, he blames 265 fatal crashes from 2007 to 2011 on "left-lane hogs" instead of slamming the real culprits -- the drivers who speed 20 mph or 30 mph over the limit in gas-guzzling SUVs and luxury cars, terrorizing and cutting off slower drivers.
Cichowski is so deperate for copy he bases today's inaccurate column on e-mailed complaints from some of those dangerously impatient drivers, including the improbably named Carlo Disney of Woodcliff Lake.
Healthy tweaks?
In Better Living, Upper Saddle River food blogger Kate Morgan Jackson is back with another unhealthy recipe, this time a pasta-chicken dish made with butter and with poultry raised on harmful animal antibiotics (BL-1).
A couple of tweaks -- extra-virgin olive oil instead of butter and the use of organic chicken -- would make the recipe a winner.
She also recommends cooking the pasta in "heavily salted water" when the legions watching their sodium intake have long ago stopped using any salt to cook pasta.
Victor moved to be closer to his work, but his close family is still in Paterson. He is still very supportive of many Paterson charities and causes. What is your point?
ReplyDeleteThen the story should have said so. More sloppy journalism.
DeleteWhat do you do for your hometown, Victor?
ReplyDeleteAlso, he lives in Lyndhurst. I know you may not be from around here, but a condo in Lyndhurst is not a penthouse on the Upper West Side.
If in "hometown" you mean Hackensack, I ran for City Council and highlighted much that was wrong with Zisa family rule, helping elect a slate of reform candidates.
DeleteNow, I am applying for a part-time public relations job the city has open to boost the downtown shopping and dining district, which was hit by the double whammy of the recession and the greedy Borg family pulling up stakes.
You didn't grow up in Hackensack. You don't think the other Victor does enough for Paterson, where he grew up. What have you done for Brooklyn, or whevere you grew up?
ReplyDeleteI don't have $43 million.
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