January 12, 2002
Housing Update. Barring any horrible developments, I will be moving to Jersey City on February 1, just in time for the city's only remaining daily newspaper to either go out of business or keep publishing as a shadow of its former self.
There is even less joy in the newsroom, where more than half the paper's reporters, photographers and editors will soon be updating their résumés. "It's like there's a big, fat dead elephant in the middle of the newsroom," said Sally Deering, 49, a scrappy, raspy-voiced columnist who writes in the same unvarnished way she speaks. "It feels like death warmed over."
I've never even read Deering and already I miss her. Well, at least I should have plenty of local material to write about. How could you not look forward to living in a city where a former mayor is described in an aside by the Times as "one of the few Jersey City mayors left untouched by scandal."
There is even less joy in the newsroom, where more than half the paper's reporters, photographers and editors will soon be updating their résumés. "It's like there's a big, fat dead elephant in the middle of the newsroom," said Sally Deering, 49, a scrappy, raspy-voiced columnist who writes in the same unvarnished way she speaks. "It feels like death warmed over."
I've never even read Deering and already I miss her. Well, at least I should have plenty of local material to write about. How could you not look forward to living in a city where a former mayor is described in an aside by the Times as "one of the few Jersey City mayors left untouched by scandal."
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