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PLAINFIELD TODAY:
.......... "Holiday Bazaar this Thursday thru Saturday at Senior Center"
Budget - Plainfield Plain Talker: "City Council Wants Budget Delay"
- Ledger: "Plainfield looking to trim 13 jobs; Plan would cut $1.6M off budget"
Flu Clinic - Ledger: "Plainfield is offering a third flu clinic for adults"
Profile: Fr. Leroy Lyons: "Leroy the lion: St. Mark's Church celebrates 35 years with its spiritual leader"
Plainfield Area Humane Society: "Group is participating in the 'Lights of Remembrance' fundraiser"
Plainfielder Herb Kaufman - OpEd, Courier: "Bush, not newspaper, owes us apology"
Obituary: "Efrain 'Frank' Garcia, PMUA employee, formerly with DPW"
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Union County: Heating assistance: "County offers heating bill assistance"
Elder Abuse: "Advocates shine spotlight on elder abuse"
Edison: "Edison absentee, provisional ballots getting hand recount after concerns about tabulating machine"
Hillside: "Groups decry charge of theft against aide"
North Plainfield: "Aide: School not conducive to disabled boy's learning"
Old Bridge: "Construction official admits graft in home windows deal"
Rahway: "250 Rahway jobs lost in Merck cuts"
Westfield: "Black-belt beauty queen fights child cancer"
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Corzine's Senate seat - Trenton Times: "Hispanic leaders champion Menendez for Senate seat"
.......... - NY Times: "Corzine's Struggle to Fill His Own Senate Shoes"
NJ and DeLay: Imperfect Together? - Ledger: "DeLay prosecutor seeks Jersey GOP's ELEC records"
Drug prosecutions - Ledger: "Panel calls for smaller drug-free zones, elimination of mandatory prison terms"
Eminent Domain - Ledger: "Proposed seizing of properties for condo development roils tiny Stanhope"
School vouchers in NJ? - Ledger: "Bills propose private funds for vouchers for 4000 urban students"
DCA exec and grants to family members: "Conflicts probed in grants worth $65,000"
Newark - Sharpe Retiring?: "Newark's Longtime Mayor Sends Mixed Signals on Plans"
.......... - Police Director's double-dipping - Ledger: "Top cop un-retires to old job, one salary"
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Scandal Central:
.......... Plamegate - Washington Post: "Time Reporter Called a Key to Rove's Defense In Leak Probe"
.......... Abramoff - Bloomberg News: "Abramoff Sought Bush Officials' Aid in Indian-Tribe Fee Dispute"
.......... Rep. Cunningham's Bribery Plea - NY Times: "Republicans Denounce Ex-Lawmaker"
Iraq:
.......... Bush on War - Ledger: "Bush and Rumsfeld insist Iraqi forces improving; Hold early withdrawal would be big error"
.......... Unreliability of Iraqi forces - Ledger: "U.S. soldiers face a long road out of Iraq"
.......... US secretly pays for 'News' in Iraqi press - LA Times: "Military covertly writes, translates, pays to run stories in Iraqi press"
.......... Private Security Contractors - Telegraph [UK]: "'Trophy' video shows security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers"
.............. Link to video can be found here [Quick Time, Windows Media or Real Player]
.......... Secret CIA Prisons - Agence France Presse: "Rice to visit Europe amid concern over CIA prisons"
.............. - "EU threatens sanctions for states operating secret CIA camps"
.......... Phosphorus Bombs - Editorial, NY Times: "Shake and Bake"
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Catholic church and gay priests - Washington Post: "Head of US Bishops group says edict allows some gay priests"
.............. Transcript of interview here
.......... An alternative view - Ledger: "Gay-priest ban is foregone fact for seminaries"
Competition freaks: "You know them, those people who just have to win..."
FCC: "FCC tells cable, satellite TV to keep sex under wraps"
American Blues - cheeses, that is: "The new American farmstead blue cheeses are creamy, rich and intense"
Fed-funded sex ed - Stateline.org: "States abstain from federal sex ed money"
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RELIEF: Online donation resources
== Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
== Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
== Catholic Charities: http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/news/katrina.cfm
== United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: http://www.uscj.org/Hurricane_ReliefYou_6553.html
== Islamic Relief: http://www.irw.org/katrina/
== NYTimes Relief Information page: http://tinyurl.com/d7tpg
== Courier News relief info: http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/NEWS/50901001
== FEMA list: http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-2/112615864767180.xml&coll=1
KATRINA CLEARINGHOUSE: Katrina Blankenship has converted her website into a clearinghouse for Katrina survivors.
