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Nets official to Record: Brooklyn move won't happen

No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008

Atlantic Yards Report Is Atlantic Yards imploding like the stock market, with widespread panic taking hold? Norman Oder covers the Bergen Record's report today that a Nets insider " is telling people that the move to Brooklyn will never, ever happen . The leaks coming out of the basketball firmament just keep coming. Ian O'Connor, a columnist for the Bergen Record, writes...

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Nets official to Record: Brooklyn move won't happen

Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008

The leaks coming out of the basketball firmament just keep coming. Ian O'Connor, a columnist for the Bergen Record, writes that the Nets will stay in New Jersey, quoting Gov. Jon Corzine and finding a team official: One longtime Nets’ official, a man who’s made big management decisions in the past, is telling people that the move to Brooklyn will never, ever happen. "Bruce just won’t...

Catholics Becoming More Divided In Presidential Elections, Bergen Record Reports

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008

With two weeks left in the presidential campaign, neither Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) nor Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) likely "has a lock on the Catholic vote," which represents about 25% of the electorate and has become increasingly divided over presidential politics, particularly because of abortion rights, the Bergen Record reports.

The Business of New Jersey Real Estate: Timely Information, Trusted Analysis and Valuable Resources Online (GlobeSt.com)

Property investments (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008

FLORHAM PARK, NJ-Just more than a year ago, AIG Global teamed with Morgan Properties to buy a portfolio of 16,784 apartments in 86 properties in five states from locally based Kushner Cos. for just less than $1.9 billion . Now, according to a report in The Bergen Record , any or all of those properties, a large percentage of which are in New Jersey, are for sale as the ailing insurer...

Daily Links: Remembering the Titans

thejetsblog.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008

The Jets are getting prepped for the Titans. Newsday is getting the SuperBowlitis too. The Bergen Record has some constructive criticism to help the Jets win this weekend. Cimini’s got some notes from yesterday’s press conferences. The Titans are 10-0 and feeling it. Soundbites from Mangini’s Monday press conference [video]. The Pats put yet another player on IR, CB Terrence Wheatley....

Giants RT McKenzie arrested on DUI charges

Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008

Giants offensive lineman Kareem McKenzie was arrested Thursday night for driving under the influence in Little Falls, N.J., according to a story on the Bergen Record Web site.

Giants player arrested and another NYC marathoner dies

The Final Score (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008

Quite a day for one of your TFS bloggers yesterday. Assigned to cover the Giants, I was expecting a nice, easy day when word filtered over at about 1:45 of the arrest the night before of Giants starting right tackle Kareem McKenzie for DWI. McKenzie was at practice and in the locker room, but left before the news was revealed by the Bergen Record, or Record of Hackensack, or whatever...

Wade rallies Heat past Nets with big 4th quarter

Fox News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008

(NJ - Point Guard)News: The Nets will be without Harris for Monday's game against the Heat, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. ( - Mon. Nov 10, 2008) (NJ - Point Guard)News: Harris said his left ankle didn't swell up much over night and will not rule out playing Monday night against Miami, the Bergen Record reports. ( - Nov 9, 2008) (NJ - Guard-Forward)News: Hassell (virus) made...

Getting Older (Me Too)

Autism Vox (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008

In just about one month, I turn 40. Charlie is 11 1/2—-so when I’m 50, he’ll be 21, and when I’m 65, he’ll be 36, almost as old as I am now. Where will he be living? (With us') What will he be doing? (School will be long over.) What opportunities will there be for him, or not? Yesterday’s Bergen Record describes Debbie Legutko, whose two adults sons—24-year-old Derek and 21-year-old Frank—live...

Suicide in Montclair Jail Cell

Baristanet (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008

A man being booked on burglary charges in Montclair was found unconscious in his jail cell Thursday night after he apparently hung himself . According to the story originally in the Bergen Record, Anthony Sheppard of Paterson tore his t-shirt, fastened it to something in the cell and killed himself by leaning forward. The incident is being investigated by police and the Essex County Prosecutor's...

Bruce Springsteen Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Ad Photo

The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008

... ad will appear in New Jersey area papers, including The New York Times, The Star-Ledger, The Bergen Record , and The Daily Record , this Sunday. If you would like to help, please visit www.njfoodbank.org .

New Jersey Lawmaker Proposes Bill To End Reimbursement For Preventable Medical Errors

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

New Jersey Assembly member Paul Moriarty (D) this month introduced a bill that would prohibit New Jersey hospitals from being reimbursed for follow-up care of serious medical errors, the AP/Bergen Record reports.

Link: November Gets Ugly

thejetsblog.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008

Ian O’Connor of the Bergen Record has sees the writing on the wall for the Jets, their head coach and quarterback. … to date, Mangini has proved only that he’s an 18-21 NFL head coach, and a guy who appears to have benefited a lot more from his former boss, Bill Belichick, than Belichick ever benefited [...]

Jesus Costume a No-Go for NJ 8th Grader

Gothamist (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008

No Messiah for West Brook Middle School : Alex Woinski was sent home for dressing as Jesus Christ for Halloween. Actually, the Paramus school just wanted him to change, but it wasn't as easy as that: Woinski's costume was particularly elaborate--the Bergen Record reports that the eighth-grader already "has shoulder-length brown hair" so he "donned a long white robe with a red sash, a...

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A note to gun owners in NJ-5: you're being lied to.

Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008

In today's Bergen Record , there is an article about guns and the race here in NJ-5 between Dennis Shulman and Scott Garrett. And in this article (not surprisingly) is a number of thoughts, mischaracterizations and outright misleading comments about Dennis Shulman and his views on gun ownership. In the press conference announcing Mayor Michael Bloomberg's endorsement of Shulman , both...