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JOHN BRENNAN has been covering sports business — with a focus on the Meadowlands Sports Complex — since 2002 and has worked for The Record since 1983. Brennan covers the uncertain fates of Xanadu, the Atlantic City casino industry, the New Jersey horse racing industry, and the sports franchises and facilities throughout the metropolitan area. A 19-year stint in The Record's Sports department included a stint as traveling Nets beat writer from 1992-2000. Brennan started working at The Record when he received an internship during his senior year at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck. In 2008, Brennan was honored with co-writer Jeff Pillets as a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Local Reporting (for an investigation of the failed Meadowlands EnCap project). Brennan lives in Riverdale with his wife, Krista.

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JOHN CICHOWSKI is an award-winning journalist whose Road Warrior column has exposed multimillion-dollar guardrail thefts on major highways and has provoked traffic-safety reforms and changes in E-ZPass protocols. In 2007, his work won a National Headliners award and the top prize for column writing by the New Jersey Society for Professional Journalists. A former broadcaster, he was news director for WPAT radio and a newswriter for the CBS radio and television networks before joining The Record in 1982. A 1970 graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, he and his wife, Susan, live in Rockaway, N.J. They have two grown children.

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KEVIN DeMARRAIS has provided Record readers with straightforward advice on pocketbook and consumer issues such as telemarketers, Internet scams, supermarket coupons, unresponsive business people, and dozens of other subjects for nearly 16 years. A three-time first-place finisher in state-wide business writing contests, he combines years of personal experience with advice from experts in business and government to provide readers tools to solve their own problems and to get the most for their time and money.

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JILL SCHENSUL travels all over the world for her column in The Record.

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Food Editor Susan Sherrill and Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung dish on food and dining.

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ALFA GARCIA is a reporter for the Better Living section of The Record. She graduated from New York University and spends her time writing and performing music (alfa-music.com). She loves discovering little-known finds and always enjoys a high quality bargain buy.

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TOM GULITTI has covered the New Jersey Devils for The Record since 2002. Prior to that, he covered the New York Rangers for four years. Gulitti joined The Record in 1998 after six years at The North Jersey Herald News. He graduated from Binghamton University in 1991 with a BA in Rhetoric-Literature.

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J.P. PELZMAN joined The Record in April 1998. He began his career at the Ocean County Observer in Toms River, where he spent one year before leaving for Newsday on Long Island. At The Record, he was the primary backup on the New York Jets’ beat for nine seasons, from 1998-2006, before becoming the beat writer in 2007. Pelzman also has been The Record’s beat writer for Seton Hall men’s basketball since the 2002-03 season.

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AL IANNAZZONE has covered the Nets for The Record since 2004 after spending three years on the Knicks. Overall, he was covered the NBA for The Record and Herald News since 1996. He also covers baseball and tennis for The Record.

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STEVE ADAMEK is in his 20th year with The Record, his 14th season covering the NBA and his 10th as the New York Knicks beat writer. He also covered the New Jersey Nets for four seasons and the New York Mets for 5½, as well as U.S. Open tennis and numerous golf tournaments. Overall, he has worked for more than 33 years in the newspaper business and won multiple awards (including Associated Press Sports Editors and New Jersey Press Association) for the Plattsburgh (N.Y.) Press-Republican, the Delaware State News, the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer and what is now the Herald News as a sports columnist and beat writer covering professional golf, college football and basketball and numerous other sports and teams.

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PETE CALDERA has covered the New York Yankees for The Record since 2003. Prior to that, he covered the New York Mets for The Record, starting in the summer of 2000. He is a past chairman of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. A graduate of Hofstra University, he previously covered sports at the Journal-News and the Middletown Record.

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VINNY DiTRANI has covered the New York Giants since 1974. Born in Newark, N.J., and raised in Emerson, N.J., he graduated from Hackensack High School in 1963 and the University of Dayton in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. DiTrani began working at The Record part-time in 1964 and full-time upon college graduation. He started covering the NFL in 1969 (New York Jets) and shifted to the Giants in 1974. DiTrani, who covered 36 of the first 43 Super Bowls, also covered three Winter Olympic Games (including USA hockey’s “Miracle on Ice” 1980 gold medal run in Lake Placid, N.Y.), three World Series and several Stanley Cup hockey playoff series.

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HEATHER ZWAIN is fashion editor for (201) magazine and (201) Bride magazine, as well as host of "(201) Video Update," a Web-exclusive weekly news and shopping program on 201.net. Zwain’s signature style prefers everything feminine and big … sunglasses, cocktail rings, fur vests and high heels. She believes that anyone can attain a glamorous and fashionable look as long as they know how to mix and match clothing and accessories. Says Zwain, "Style is not fashion. If the latest fashion trend doesn’t suit your taste or flatter your body, then move on. Grab something from the back of your closet, update it with some great accessories, and you’re most likely on trend. Everything old is new again in fashion."

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MICHAEL GRABAS has been a resident of Cedar Grove for over 51 years. He graduated from Memorial High School in 1975 and graduated Montclair State University in 1995. He worked for Kings Supermarkets for over 35 years mainly in dairy and frozen food. He is the store shop steward and a board member of United Food Commercial Workers Union No. 1245. He belongs to the Municipal Alliance, the Lions Club and is veterans chairman of the Cedar Grove Elks Lodge 2237. He also serves as a volunteer at the Lyons VA Hospital, working with the chaplains. He was just recently awarded honorary membership at the Sts. Kiril and Metodij Church here in Cedar Grove. He also serves as a member of the Cedar Grove Board of Education. His time is divided among the organizations he belongs to and his employment. The rest of his time is working with veterans and troops overseas. He runs a support our troop program, in which the Elks send goods to men and women serving overseas on a weekly basis. He has taken on the traumatic brain injury cause in which the Elks are now raising money to help soldiers who suffer with brain injuries and post traumatic brain disorders, the signature wound of the war.

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RICHARD MUTI is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Harvard Business School, and Rutgers Law School. He is a former Naval Aviator, a former trial prosecutor, a former college professor, and a former mayor of Ramsey, his hometown in New Jersey where he continues to reside. He has published two books (and is working on his third) and has authored more than 70 newspaper and magazine articles on wide-ranging subjects. He currently works as Chief Operating Officer for a medium-sized private company that makes diagnostic equipment for health care professionals. Mr. Muti is an elected trustee on the Ramsey Board of Education. The opinions expressed here relating to education are his own and not those of the school board.

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DON HUMPHREYS is founder and president of Voyager Wealth Management, a fee-only independent registered investment advisory firm committed to helping clients achieve their goal of creating lasting wealth. With nearly 20 years of investing experience, he has the knowledge and in-depth perspective that allows him to recommend appropriate investments tailored to each client’s investment objectives and individual risk profile. He has held executive level positions both in the U.S. and abroad at JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch as a trader and relationship manager to some of the largest institutional money managers and hedge funds in the world.

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JOE FAVORITO has almost a quarter century of strategic communications/marketing, business development and public relations expertise in sports, entertainment, brand building, media training, television, athletic administration and business.

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ARNOLD KOROTKIN has been a community activist For over 40 years. He is an alumnus of Brooklyn College (CUNY) and has a Master in Social Work (majoring in community organizing) from New York University and a Masters in Business Administration from New York Institute of Technology. For the past 25 years he has taught business and sociology courses. Additionally, he has published social issue newsletters, maintained a 9/11 List-serv for the past eight years and is a cybrarian for several non-profit organizations.

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BARBARA BALABAN is a long-time Belleville resident who resides in the Soho section of town. She is married with two sons, both of whom went through the Belleville public school system. She works full time for a market research company, and enjoys writing, painting, and practicing yoga.

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Contrasting viewpoints on issues of the day, by long-time Glen Rock residents Steve Kenny and Mark R. Braff.