Con man Trump is called the 'risky, reckless, radical choice'

"I'm a New Yorker, and I know a con when I see one," former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, now an independent, said of Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. (Photo credit: The Associated Press)

Editor's note: I have revised and expanded Michael R. Bloomberg's comments on wacko racist Donald J. Trump, and added other comments about food coverage and duplication of coverage from the Democratic National Convention.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

Editor Deirdre Sykes of The Record continues to cheat readers by omitting key moments in her coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

On Tuesday, she failed to publish a word of first lady Michelle Obama's stirring call to the voting booth on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

And today's paper contains too few sentences from billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg's scathing attack on his fellow New Yorker, Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump (A-6).

In the most forceful take-down of the wacko racist so far, Bloomberg labeled Trump the "risky, reckless and radical choice" in the November election.

An independent

Bloomberg, who served as New York mayor from 2001-13, told the delegates on Wednesday night he has been a Democrat and a Republican, and is now an independent, "because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership."

"Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower," Bloomberg said.

"Someone who can bring members of Congress together, to get things done. And I know that Hillary Clinton can do that....

"There are times when I disagree with Hillary [Clinton]. But whatever our disagreements may be, I'm here to say: 

"We must put them aside for the good of the country. And we must unite around the candidate who can defeat a dangerous demagogue," Bloomberg said in a pointed reference to Trump.

Fuzzy reporting

On the Better Living cover today, the Now Open feature reports Hudson Mediterranean Grill in Edgewater serves "Turkish branzino" (BL-1).

Later, Staff Writer Sophia F. Gottfried quotes the Turkish owner as saying he is "passionate about high-quality ingredients ... and he's sourcing all produce and fish from local farms and fishermen."

Branzino or Mediterranean sea bass is a farmed fish that took Manhattan restaurants by storm a decade ago before invading New Jersey years later.

Most branzino is farmed in Italy and Greece. What's "local" about that?

Too much of bad thing

Only a die-hard politician searching for his name in print could possibly wade through the mind-numbing coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.

A reader questioned why The Record on Wednesday ran both a political column and a news story on the same delegates breakfast sponsored by Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, who is expected to seek the Democratic nomination for governor in 2017 (A-1 and A-9).

What a waste of valuable space.

Christie is returning to familiar role of screwing New Jersey

A view of the Navesink River from the Oyster Point Hotel in Red Bank.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

Editor Deirdre Sykes' obsession with partisan politics continues to dominate The Record's front page even as Governor Christie is back at his old job of screwing New Jersey.

A major story about the GOP bully led Saturday's paper, reporting he opposes the latest plan to resolve the crisis over funding statewide road, bridge and rail improvements.

Insider deals

On Monday, another front-page story on politics reported Christie's "national prospects" have improved once again with rumors he could become Donald J. Trump's attorney general, if the wacko racist is elected to the White House.

Christie might be hoping to get the same kind of lucrative contract he steered to John Ashcroft in 2007, when the governor was the U.S. attorney for New Jersey and Ashcroft was his former boss in the U.S. Justice Department.

As the Star-Ledger reported, the former attorney general's D.C. law firm was poised to collect $52 million in 18 months to monitor a $311 million settlement Christie won to end a probe into kickbacks by leading manufacturers of hip and knee replacements.

Christie also handed lucrative contracts to other lawyers who served as monitors:

David Samson, his mentor and "father figure," whom Christie later appointed chairman of the Port Authority; and Debra Yang, one of the lawyers who led the "internal investigation" into the George Washington Bridge lane closures.

That whitewash of his role in the September 2013 lane closures in Fort Lee cost New Jersey taxpayers more than $10 million.

More conflict

Today's lead story emphasizes dissension and protests at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that USA Today compares to last week's meeting of Republicans (A-1).

But Sykes must have gone home early, because readers can't find a word of first lady Michelle Obama's inspiring speech to get out the vote for Hillary Clinton, who will be formally nominated  for president tonight.

Sure, a photo of the first lady appears on Page 1 (where the caption misspells her first name), but the speech must have been given too late for The Record's early deadlines.

The decision over a decade ago to move printing of the paper to Rockaway Township -- more than 30 miles from the heart of the circulation area in Hackensack -- means The Record often misses such late-breaking news while generating clouds of pollution from diesel-powered delivery trucks tearing up Route 80.

Back to Camden

Instead of the first lady's speech, the front page carries two inconsequential columns from Staff Writers John Cichowski and Mike Kelly.

The big news on the first Business page is the expected Aug. 5 opening of a "luxury" movie theater in Fort Lee where tickets will go for $19 to $24 (L-7).

The Better Living section also promoted the theater and its restaurant on Sunday.

I guess the Woodland Park daily is hoping to land big advertising contracts from both.

Christie will never measure up to President Obama

Hackensack attorney Frank P. Lucianna, left, marching in the Memorial Day Parade in Englewood. In a letter The Record published on Monday, the Army Air Forces veteran paid tribute to fellow members of the Dwight Morrow High School Class of 1941 who were killed during World War II. He listed more than a dozen friends he "will never forget."

If you swallow Columnist Charles Stile's amateurish promotion of Governor Christie on the front page of The Record today, you might think the GOP bully was "auditioning" for the White House during a joint appearance on Tuesday with President Obama. 

What a joke.

Whether at the Jersey shore or as a leader, Christie will never measure up to Obama, a champion of the same middle class the governor has savaged since he took office in 2010.

Christie's massive public relations campaign to win a second term has hoodwinked Stiles and the rest of state media.

But voters won't forget how he's catered almost exclusively to his wealthy supporters, and broken his campaign promise to lower property taxes.

More corrections

Four embarrassing corrections on A-2 today are further evidence of how little fact-checking is performed by Production Editor Liz Houlton, her sleepy copy editors or the assignment editors who sign off on stories.

On A-3, a story on The Record winning statewide journalism awards doesn't explore whether the stories served readers or were written merely to impress fellow journalists.

A photo on A-3 -- showing Michelle Obama with  Jersey shore students in the backyard garden at the White House -- again demonstrates how little Christie or first lady Mary Pat Christie have done to promote healthy eating during the child obesity epidemic.

Readers brace

On the front of Local, a big photo showing the Franklin Lakes homecoming of disgraced former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik can mean only one thing (L-1).

Soon, burned-out Staff Writer Mike Kelly will land an exclusive interview with his pal "Bernie," and write an overlong column to rehabilitate Kerik's dishonest image. 

Litigiously speaking

What was the point of The Record's Page 1 story on Tuesday "on the propensity" of local police officers "to sue their employers over promotions and other work conditions"?

The takeout by star reporter Stephanie Akin seemed mean-spirited, especially in view of how often North Jersey Media Group sues or is sued by its employees and former employees.

None of those lawsuits are ever reported in The Record, but NJMG has started a blog to document its high-profile Freedom of Information cases:

http://blog.northjersey.com/legallyspeaking/

Despite declining revenue from classified and other advertising, NJMG's legal expenses have soared in recent years from the use of outside counsel who command $400 to $500 an hour.

Family that shoots together dies together

National Rifle Association officials have been strangely silent since the shooting in Newtown, Conn. (Wikipedia)

All day Monday, WNYC-FM and other public radio stations reported Nancy Lanza and her son, Adam, went target shooting together, using a high-powered, semiautomatic rifle and other weapons she had purchased legally.

Until last Friday, that is, when Adam used Nancy as a human target, shooting her four times in the head while she was in bed in her pajamas, before driving her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

There, he killed 20 children -- all 7 years old or under -- 6 adults and himself.

I've been poring over The Record's coverage Sunday, Monday and today, and can't find any mention of the Lanzas' weird choice of target shooting as a family activity. 

What's wrong with bowling or going to the movies, especially when all the hunting and gathering we have to do is in supermarkets and warehouse stores?

Holes in coverage

There is a lot missing in The Record's coverage, and the strain of Editor Marty Gottlieb sending reporters to Connecticut to write long A-1 stories has reduced local municipal news to a trickle.

Among the unanswered questions:

A single public safety officer at the Connecticut elementary school -- armed and wearing a bulletproof vest -- would have prevented the tragedy.

But maybe Newtown -- like many small towns in New Jersey -- is trying to cut costs and keep property taxes down. 

Why do only schools in the Bronx, Paterson and other urban neighborhoods have cops guarding schools and metal detectors at their doors?  

Paper misreads reaction 

How did The Record's Page 1 story on Sunday misread the strong reaction of politicians, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, President Obama and many in Congress, as well as the prospects for tighter controls on guns? 

(That story did report that New Jersey members of Congress sold out for as little as $1,000 in National Rifle Association blood money.)

Aren't all the people who say they have a right to own a gun and defend themselves condemning the job police are doing to control crime?

Local news drought

Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza, were so desperate for local news today they needed a photo of a no-injury auto accident to fill L-3. 

On Monday's L-3, Sykes and Sforza killed two birds with one stone in their mission of running a photo of every minor accident and every utility pole downing in North Jersey -- a car that crashed into a pole in Fair Lawn.

Christie's P.R. guy

Also on Monday, Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin's column amounted to an elaborate excuse for Governor Christie's obesity -- and his failure to lead the fight against overeating in children (A-11).

Of course, Doblin doesn't mention the health crisis or how first lady Michelle Obama started a White House garden as part of her war against childhood obesity.

Nor that New Jersey's participation in the national school breakfast program for poor children is too low to qualify for millions in federal subsidies.

Or that two obese editors in the Woodland Park newsroom, Sykes and Tim Nostrand, have effectively stopped any comprehensive coverage of the epidemic. 

Doblin gives a bad name to pussies by mounting one excuse after another for the GOP bully's inability to lose weight.

Editor's bias is clear

And his clear bias in favor of the governor raises questions about the overwhelmingly pro-Christie editorials he writes or edits. 

We may not "elect governors or presidents because they are fittness role models," as Dobin wrote, but we expect them to be proactive in fighting childhood obesity.

And I wish Doblin didn't write this silly sentence:

"In 2012, when it comes to eating, America is messed up big."

That's true for Christie, who likely is a binge eater and who is married to a woman who is so busy making money, she can't plan healthy, nutritious meals for the state's fat first family.

Yes, as Doblin says, the Christies have money. They can hire a personal chef, even someone to food shop for them. 

Stop with the excuses. 

Today and Monday, The Record printed corrections on A-2, but none of them addressed the many recent errors in the Road Warrior column, including an inaccurate headline.
    

Sports devalues Democrats' message

Perfect for shopaholics. Apartments rise on the site of the old Oritani Motor Hotel in Hackensack, where Record newsroom staffers stayed during major storms to ensure publication of the daily newspaper. They are on Hackensack Avenue, between The Shops at Riverside and the Home Depot Shopping Center.

If you need any more evidence of how editors of The Record side with our fat slob of a governor and other Republicans, take a look at today's ridiculous sports column on a front page dominated by the Democratic National Convention.

I looked over last week's front-page coverage of the Republican National Convention and checked the other stories that ran with all the lies from Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and others.

Readers didn't see any similar subliminal messages, as in today's decision by Editor Marty Gottlieb to elevate the Giants to the same level as speeches from first lady Michelle Obama and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who called on the wealthy to pay their fair share.

The vast majority of readers think of the Giants as nuisances whose beer-guzzling fans clog the turnpike before and after every game in East Rutherford.

When they win a championship, they might deserve a photo on Page 1.

But the rest of the time, I wish Gottlieb would put them in their place -- in the Sports section, along with airhead columnists like Tara Sullivan.

Oldest in N.J.?

Also on Page 1 today, the local obituary of Melva Radcliffe, 111 -- believed to be the oldest New Jerseyan -- suggests the Paterson Police Department once did a far better job of fighting street crime, as reported by Staff Writer Jay Levin:

"For the first decade of her teaching career at Paterson's School 13, Miss Cadmus, as she was known then, walked the several miles back and forth from her home on East 37th Street."

More poor editing

Meanwhile, the editing of the Woodland Park daily continues to decline under Production Editor Liz Houlton, known in the industry as the "Queen of Errors."

How did the news copy desk allow Washington Correspondent Herb Jackson to get away with the awkward phrase -- "still-filling Democratic National Convention" -- in the first paragraph of his Page 1 story on Booker?

That's more evidence veteran Jackson is a still-maturing writer, and that the assignment editors who go over stories before they are sent to the copy desk should be fired.

On Tuesday's Local front, the assignment and news copy editors completely overlooked an awkward, repetitive first and second paragraphs in a story on an American flag:

"WESTWOOD -- In mid-August, a package containing an American flag arrived at the municipal building.

"The delivery contained a flag ...."

The second paragraph should have begun, "The flag ...."

Road kill

On today's Local front, Road Warrior John Cichowski's laziness yields another column based on readers' e-mails and a little online research (L-1).

Cichowski continues to dissect the driving experience while ignoring all of the region's commuting problems.

Today's column on how to cope with slow drivers will be followed by others on turning left, turning right, accelerating smoothly and staying in lane.

To critics of the paper's coverage of mass transit, head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes points to her lead story today about an alleged drunk who tried to throw two boys onto the tracks in Glen Rock (L-1).

Black and white

Also on L-1, a story about the Englewood City Council fails to tell readers whether 4th Ward Councilman Jack Drakeford, who was African-American, was replaced by another African-American.

There is nothing in the text and no photos of his replacement, Wayne Hamer, or the two who were passed over, Curtis Caviness and Rosemary Tillman-Scott.

Shopping for news

There was no Hackensack news today or Tuesday, not even a report on the new apartments off Hackensack Avenue that are going up between two shopping centers.

On Tuesday, an A-1 blurb and A-6 story on organic food fails to mention that besides being pesticide- and antibiotic-free, naturally raised food is worth the extra money, because it tastes far better than conventional meat and produce.

Editor jumped ship, landed in rowboat

Jumping off The Times' building in Manhattan might have done more for Marty Gottlieb's career than taking over the dysfunctional newsroom at The Record of Woodland Park.

Marty Gottlieb, a suave and sophisticated Paris-based editor for The New York Times, jumped ship and landed in a leaky rowboat called the S.S. Record.

Now, it seems, The Times is paying him back by scooping the relatively new editor of the Woodland Park daily with an expose of escapes, sex assaults, drug use and gang activity at halfway houses (A-1 on Monday and today). 

They are managed by a company with "deep ties" to Governor Christie.

Hard times

The Times broke the story on Sunday after a 10-month investigation that began before Gottlieb left the New York-based paper.

The Record's local-news rowboat continues to spring leaks and bail water under the ponderous weight of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her incompetent bosun's mate, Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza.
 
Locals are yokels

Local, the section that is supposed to be filled with local news, was pathetically weak today, Monday and Sunday.

Today, so many of the stories on the Local front and elsewhere in the section are based on court rulings or sentences and lawsuits.

Where is the municipal news from Hackensack, Englewood and many other towns?

 

Living dead

Make sure you look at Staff Writer Denisa Superville's bright feature on FDU Professor John Edwin Cowin reading poetry at Louie's Charcoal Pit in Teaneck (L-1).

Her story only serves to remind readers how little they see about interesting local residents -- until they are given a sendoff by Staff Writer Jay Levin, the local obituary writer.

Food for thought

A story on the Better Living cover today delivers a hard-sell for krill oil, a supplement from a small ocean crustacean that helps give wild salmon their deep red-orange color (BL-1).

The story appears after Consumer Reports and other publications found little benefit from a wide range of dietary supplements. 

On Monday's Better Living front, Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill praised "American Grown," the book by Michelle Obama, who started a kitchen garden at the White House as part of the first lady's focus on healthy eating and childhood obesity.

Of course, Sherrill doesn't acknowledge all the cookbooks she has promoted by publishing some of the unhealthiest recipes under the sun -- filled with lard, butter and heavy cream.

 
What Kelly missed

On Sunday's front page, Columnist Mike Kelly's opus on Garfield included a discussion of the city's demographics, but he somehow forgot to mention its large Polish population.

There is nothing like Page 1 play to reveal just how weak Kelly is as a reporter and writer.

Editors fear saying the O-word

Image by New Jersey State Library via Flickr

New Jersey first lady Mary Pat Christie hides behind a hockey jersey.

The Record's Page 1 story on Governor Christie's health problems and the editorial on Page A-11 are masterful writing jobs. 


Both avoid any mention of how the governor has become the poster adult for the obesity epidemic.


Today's story by Staff Writer Juliet Fletcher quotes Christie as saying he has "urged his staff ... to release a 'complete download of all the medical results'" from his hospital check-up after an asthma attack on Thursday.


Download from where? The story doesn't say, and the reporter includes absolutely no medical data, doesn't quote any doctors and doesn't tell readers how much Christie weighs.


Fletcher does reveal that Christie keeps Governor's Hours, showing up at work on Friday at 11:03 a.m.


Hungry for more


What did he have for breakfast? A half-dozen eggs, a stack of pancakes and a slab of bacon or low-fat yogurt and fruit, whole-grain toast and an egg-white omelet?

Your guess is as good as mine. 


We've read the governor is working with a personal trainer, but he won't lose any weight unless he makes real dietary changes, and that means giving up such favorites as beer and pizza.


The editorial ("Wake-up call, Christie's scare, a teachable moment") is a well-crafted exercise in avoiding any mention of the obesity epidemic, and even contains an inadvertently hilarious bit about a health program the governor should launch.


Vintage Doblin


Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin, who either wrote or edited and approved the editorial, concentrates on Christie's asthma, not his excessive weight.


He even drags in the state's poor, who are more prone to having asthma, and glosses over cuts in state funding to urban centers as "the fiscal reality of New Jersey under Christie's watch."


What a pussy. What a Christie apologist. What about the governor's refusal to hike taxes on millionaires or the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks he is giving businesses?


When he finally turns to Christie's weight, he mentions New Jersey first lady Mary Pat Christie has "drawn attention to area food pantries and the need to donate to them," but doesn't note that first lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign targets childhood obesity.


The photos I've seen of Mary Pat Christie and some of her children suggest obesity, not hunger, should be her chief concern.


In fact, in pulling the plug on Hudson River rail tunnels, the governor cited his wife's complaint that she would have to walk too far to connect to the subway in Manhattan. How lazy can you get?


'Put it in the can'


Then, the editorial urges the governor to launch a companion program to his wife's called "Put it in the can." 


People would save the money they normally use to buy unhealthy snacks, and donate it to a food pantry or buy food to donate, the editorial suggests.


All I could think of is that this editorial belongs in the shit can.


But there's more: "Christie should consider challenging New Jerseyans who are also struggling with weight issues to join in a long-term regimen of diet and exercise."


Elephants in the newsroom


Gee, what about all the obese editors at The Record? For years, they've consistently refused to launch a series on the obesity epidemic. 


Why didn't former Food Editor Bill Pitcher, head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and Projects Editor Tim Nostrand put themselves up as examples to the reading public, try to lose weight and report the results as part of a series on obesity?


'Job creators'


Look at all the jobs the Bush tax cuts have created.


On A-3 today, the Associated Press reports the "job creators" who run New Jersey-based Merck & Co. plan to cut up to 13,000 more jobs -- bringing to 30,000 the number of positions shed since a November 2009 merger with another drug giant.


Is Merck losing money? No. In fact, second-quarter profits were higher than for the comparable period last year.

Readers are the ones who need protection

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The Record has long ignored safety problems in Ford police cruisers.

Don't bother trying to climb into the brain of Editor Francis Scandale: It's the size of a pea.


Don't bother trying to understand why he loves bonding with other males over sports or why he favors slapping fellow editors on the ass to signal a job well-done.


With the government on the brink of default and readers still trying to make some sense of the slaughter in Norway, Scandale thinks the most important story of the day for The Record of Woodland Park is the end of a football lockout.


Did he order the inane headline at the top of Page 1 today, seemingly an appeal to like-minded readers?

Strap on your helmets

What was the news copy desk thinking? Are readers literally going to go looking for a football helmet? Do even hardened fans wear helmets in front of the TV?


Maybe readers are being told to put on helmets as protection from Scandale, who continues to bombard them with distracting nonsense.


Or perhaps Scandale gives prominence to this story as recognition of how NFL owners are greedily grabbing for more money -- an issue he's familiar with since fellow jock Stephen A. Borg took over as publisher five years ago.


Ford gets a pass


The A-1 story on turnpike lawsuit settlements at the bottom of the page inadvertently highlights safety problems with the Ford Crown Victoria -- used by police departments across North Jersey -- a story the paper has avoided for years.


Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors went out of control at high speeds, killing  Teaneck and Paramus officers. Twelve other officers were killed between 1983 and 2002 when cruisers were rear-ended and caught fire, according to CNN.


Today's A-1 story in The Record reports a 19-year-old fashion model was trapped and burned to death in 2006 after her 2003 Ford Crown Victoria taxi stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike, and was rear-ended by another vehicle traveling 45 mph to 50 mph.


Running in place


Scandale thought more of the football story than two pieces on A-3 today about Governor Christie's ambitions for national office, including his attempts to hide a meeting last year with the head of the conservative Fox News channel.


Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes made sure she made room in Local for the burglary of eight unlocked cars in Tenafly, where Borg lives (L-3).


Sun stroke


Road Warrior Columnist John Cichowski must have been suffering from heat stroke when he wrote his Sunday L-1 column on leaving pets in cars during the heat wave.


What happened to his mission of writing about commuting problems?


The lead article in Local on Sunday -- how politics affect solar-power projects -- was well-researched, but the reporter erred on the location of Bergen County's major installations, as an A-2 correction notes today.


An editorial on O-2 Sunday praises first lady Michelle Obama's program to attack childhood obesity, but is strangely silent on what New Jersey first lady Mary Pat Christie is doing about the problem here.


Unfortunately, Staff Writer Scott Fallon's cover story in Travel on Sunday -- "36 Hours in Washington, D.C." -- adopts a format The New York Times has used for many, many years, and smacks of shameless copying.

The news gang that can't write straight

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The State House in Trenton. Is Governor Christie packing up already?

It's good to see most of The Record's front page devoted to the budget drama in Trenton -- finally -- but what do you make of that confusing off-lead story on the Teaneck police contract?


Governor Christie's 2% cap on arbitration awards applies only to contracts that expire after Dec. 31, 2010, so why is the Teaneck contract -- which expired in 2007 -- being used as an example of failure?


Christie boo-boo


Did Christie deliberately or mistakenly include the Teaneck contract in the cap and misspeak, as he has done often on subjects ranging from education to transportation? 


The story reports the police contract in Spotswood was settled under the new rules, so the main headline must be wrong: "No cap on new police salaries."


Is this mildly critical, A-1 story Editor Francis Scandale's best shot at Christie, who seems intent on destroying the middle-class way of life in New Jersey?


Isn't the real mystery why Christie hasn't capped the salaries of hundreds of police chiefs, as he did for school superintendents? Where are The Record stories about that?


Bad sub-head, photo


Another headline on Page 1 is wrong. The sub-headline on the Democrats'  budget and the millionaires tax reads "millionaire's tax." 


No. The tax doesn't belong to a single millionaire.


Scandale specializes in scintillating Page 1 art -- as readers can see from the photo of a nearly empty NJN newsroom on the front page today.


Fat of the land


If you want a good laugh, see the OpEd piece on A-21, claiming Christie should run for president now.


Can't you just see the cross-gender, Laurel and Hardy-like team of Christie and Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann trying to seize the White House?


The first thing Christie would dump is first lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign against obesity.


"If you want to move, move your bowels," Christie would tell critics. "I like my beer and pizza sitting down."


Sun in her eyes


Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes uses a good chunk of her Local front today on a non-news story -- the installation of solar panels on the roof of the Bergen County parking garage.


The weekly Hackensack Chronicle wrote about this same county solar project nearly three months ago. 


In the past decade, Englewood has focused development along Route 4 (L-1), but why has The Record neglected to report on the hard times that have befallen the Palisade Avenue business district?


No Hackensack news appears in the paper today.