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| Teaneck Road and Forest Avenue, where two lanes merge into one, is one of the many traffic bottlenecks in Teaneck that frustrate motorists. |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
The Record's front-page coverage of Pope Francis' visit to Cuba and the United States drones on today for the fifth day in a row.
From Havana, Columnist Mike Kelly managed to push around tens of thousands of words about Cuba on Saturday, Sunday and Monday without discussing the impact of the decades-long U.S. trade embargo on the island's economy.
GOP bully
In other news, political Columnist Charles Stile is back with another effort to keep Governor Christie's struggling presidential campaign alive (A-1).
"Christie isn't showing any signs of leaving this race anytime soon," Stile reports, basing his conclusion on interviews with "political analysts" (A-4).
Readers say...
Of course, readers became disgusted with Christie months ago, but The Record's lazy assignment editors aren't about to interview any of them.
Their only forum is Your Views (A-8), where letters to the editor appear:
"His refusal to pay for the special costs for his security detail during his presidential run while allowing our state to further decline is inexcusable," says Vince Giovinco of Mahwah.
"The governor should stay home and run the state."
Hackensack news
In Local, the editors managed to find room among all of the Law & Order and Passaic County news for a story about Hackensack (L-1).
For the second year in a row, the state has approved a long-term bond that allows the city to settle another portion of an estimated $30 million in property tax appeals, Staff Writer Todd South reports.
Pope in N.Y.
On Monday, The Record's transportation reporter provided more tips and advice to commuters (and people going to see the pope) than has ever appeared in the paper at any one time.
Also on Monday's front page, The Record focused on drivers who pour tens of thousands of dollars into their cars to get them to ride inches above the ground.
As if that isn't bad enough, the story was assigned to Christopher Maag, the transportation reporter.
If commuters wonder why their awful experiences on NJ Transit buses and trains rarely make the paper, the answer may be that the editors think of a horse race, low riders and other fluff as "transportation" stories.
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