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Star-Ledger born to run

When I was starting out as a cub reporter for the company that owns the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger, I would tell people my paper was on the bottom of the company’s Ledger-anchored totem poll. I didn’t mind admitting that because the Ledger was such a great paper and, well, my dinky paper was pretty much the exact opposite. […]