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This was delayed until Blogger decided this blog is not a 'spamblog.'
Adventures, adventures!!! Will give a catch-up when my system is restored............;-(
--Dan
12/22/2005 - Thursday
CLIPPINGS is also online here - where you can track down new and old postings and stories
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
PLAINFIELD TODAY:
Note: The Ledger has a brief on the conviction of Jose Flores, owner of 'Mr. Pepe's Driving
School,' for paying kickbacks for a decade to DMV employees to help his students get
drivers licenses. Sentencing in federal court is scheduled for March 28. He faces up to 15 years.
Conviction in Hispanic beating, robbery: "Man gets 16 years in alleged bias attack"
Crime: "Police seek suspect in two Plainfield robberies"
Crime: "Autopsy: Woman had been strangled"
Police contract [last item]: "Council approves police union contract"
Profile: "Rev. Rufus McClendon, new pastor at First-Park Baptist Church"
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....... |...........NYC TRANSIT STRIKE LINKS..............|
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....... |....About 900 people use Plainfield's Raritan....|
....... |....Valley Line service daily and will be........|
....... |....impacted by the strike.......................|
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....... |....- NJ TRANSIT ADVISORY PAGE is here...........|
....... |....- NYC STRIKE CONTINGENCY PLANS ARE here .....|
....... |....- NJDOT STRIKE CONTINGENCY PLANS ARE here....|
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....... |....- NY TIMES COMPLETE COVERAGE INDEX IS here...|
....... |....- and a PDF map for getting around is here...|
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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Edison: "Edison teachers to get raises up to 57%"
.................... - "Days before leaving office, Edison mayor appoints new police chief, deputy"
Linden: "Oil cleanup continues along Rahway River"
Piscataway: "Brick wall collapses on family's Piscataway home"
Westfield: "Westfield's new police chief plans major changes"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine Transition: "Jersey corrections chief quits to take equivalent post in D.C."
Eminent Domain: "Over loud protest, Long Branch approves waterfront plan"
High School Sports - Editorial, Courier: "Steroid tests go to root of the problem"
Newark: "Community Response forms aid Newark cops; Lets Ironbound give crime tips secretly"
Population Statistics: "Lagging growth in N.J. tied to housing costs"
Racial Profiling: "Road stops by NJ troopers worry federal monitors no longer"
Schools Construction Corp.: "Inspector assails SCC leadership"
Slogan Contest - Ledger: "'Love' it or leave it: 5 slogans in finals"
...............Courier - "New slogans focus on Jersey's softer side"
UMDNJ: "Codey fears UMDNJ fraud will cost 'tens of millions'"
.................... - "Prosecutor's tough ultimatum gives many a reason to hope"
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central:
.......... - Abramoff Affair - LA Times: "Talk of Plea by Lobbyist Has Capitol Hill on Edge"
.......... - Domestic spying - News
.................... - Agence France Presse: "For years, Bush said court orders are required for spying"
.................... - Christian Science Monitor: "Tug of war over presidential powers"
.................... - LA Times: "Cheney defends domestic spying as effort to regain presidential powers lost in the 1970s"
.................... - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Specter will question Alito on legality of NSA spying"
.................... - Washington Post: "Judges on Surveillance Court To Be Briefed on Spy Program"
.................... - A reference resource: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is online here [Westlaw]
National Security Agency - NY Times: "News of Surveillance Is Awkward for Agency"
USA Patriot Act: "Senators agree to a six-month extension of the Patriot Act"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Profile: Cardinal Theodore McCarrick: "At 75, a cardinal's duties grow ever more delicate"
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Rebuilding: "Mayor Ray Nagin approves list of 98 trailer sites"
.................... - "Christmas in New Orleans: somber but hopeful"
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