Tag: the record
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Living ‘Black’ in the United States of America
And living to tell the tales. Traffic was heavy on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights on my way home to Ridgewood, NJ, after work on Wednesday, which wasn’t exactly news. But, as I approached a stretch where Route 46 and Interstate 80 go over Route 17, traffic eased and I saw the reason why. Rubbernecking…
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A wanderer arrives
When I was a young newspaper reporter (a nerdy one, at that) at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., one of the journalists I looked up to was Michael Powell. Mr. Powell was then at New York Newsday but he had passed through The Record in what was becoming an itinerant career, with stops at Newsday,…
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LEGISLATORS ASSAIL INSURANCE CHIEF
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, November 3, 1991 Publication: The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A07 State Insurance Commissioner Samuel F. Fortunato has come under fire by Assembly Democrats for saying that he opposes lifting surcharges on drivers who, except for minor infractions, have clean records.…
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MEDIA UNFAIR, TEAMSTERS LOCAL SAYS
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Sunday, October 6, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A07 Members of Teamsters Local 560 marched to the state’s largest media outlets Saturday to protest what they called unfair news coverage of the union’s battle with government to elect its own leaders. Starting with…