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Running a little late today. --Dan
12/23/2005 - Friday
CLIPPINGS is also online here - where you can track down new and old postings and stories
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
PLAINFIELD TODAY
TEAMS Charter School - Plain Talk: "District Moves To Fix Charter Lapse, New Charter School Coming"
........- Courier: "In budget gaffe, Plainfield school district leaves charter school out of budget, to tune of $1.8M"
Photo from Star-Ledger story on Black Collectibles
Black Collectibles: "Black (bric-a-brac) is beautiful and has educational value"
........- The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University can be found here
..............A painful part of American history, my jaw dropped when one local collector told
..............me what she had taken in during the recent Black collectibles show at duCret. --Dan
PHS Basketball: "Plainfield backcourt too much for Kearny"
Plainfield's Idol: "String of wins ends at Apollo for now; Guitarist misses out on finals"
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
South Bound Brook: "With state grant, South Bound Brook builds new path for cyclists, walkers"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Domestic Partner benefits - Ledger: "Monmouth grants pension benefits to gay partners of county workers"
Edison: "Taxes going up in Edison: Almost half budget is public safety; next is insurances"
Human Trafficking: "Federal bill would give states funds to aid victims"
..............I am skeptical of Federal commitment and effectiveness here. Estimates of victims run
..............to the hundreds of thousands and police everywhere are supposedly cracking down,
..............yet every time there is a whiff of a story I get calls about Plainfield's now almost three
..............year old case. --Dan
Madison: "Non-Madison commuters will no longer be sold parking permits"
Newark: "Assemblywoman Williams, Tucker successor, accused of shoplifting and pension irregularities"
Schools Construction Corp.: "Cody won't act on SCC funding bill in his term"
UMDNJ: "Golden Parachutes: 3 former officials under federal scrutiny got lucrative severances"
............... - The Whistleblower's Tale - Tom Moran, Ledger: "To tell or not to tell, that was the question"
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central:
.......... - Abramoff Affair - NY Time: "Abramoff nears terms on plea deal; Dozens expected to be implicated"
.......... - CIA's Secret Prisons - Reuters: "Italians issue EU arrest warrant 22 CIA operatives for allegedly kidnapping Egyptian cleric"
.......... - Domestic spying - News
.................... - Boston Globe: "Wiretaps said to sift all overseas contacts"
.................... - Editor & Publisher: "'Impeachment' Talk, Pro and Con, Appears in Media at Last "
...................... Newsweek's Howard Fineman says Bush opponents are “calling him Nixon 2.0 and
...................... have already hauled forth no less an authority than John Dean to testify to the president’s
...................... dictatorial perfidy. The ‘I-word’ is out there, and, I predict, you are going to hear more of it
...................... next year — much more.”
...................... and on the conservative side--
...................... Conservative stalwart Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online takes the talk seriously
...................... enough to bother to poke fun at it, practically begging Bush foes to try to impeach him.
...................... "The main reason Bush's poll numbers would skyrocket if he were impeached,” Goldberg
...................... wrote, “is that at the end of the day the American people will support what he did [with the
...................... spy program].”
.................... - Ledger: "Justice Department defends president's spying program"
.................... - Washington Post:"Judges on surveillance court to be briefed on spy program; some fear previous warrants tainted"
......................... - "The Pentagon Breaks the Law"
............................. Lest you be confused: there are two domestic spying scandals going on
............................. -- the NSA and the Pentagon. The Pentagon has been eclipsed in recent days.
.......... - Domestic spying - Reactions:
............... - Defense of Bush
.................... - RedState.org: "Does The President's Power To Spy Freely On Al Qaeda Stop At Our Border?"
............... - Criticism of Bush
.................... - Boston Globe: "Sen. Kennedy: On wiretapping, Bush isn't listening to the Constitution"
.................... - Newsweek: "Where’s the Outrage? Bush’s defense echoes arguments used by South Africa’s apartheid regime. Why Americans should examine the parallels"
.................... - Progreso semanal: "Above the law? Bush: “I am the law”"
.................... - Slate: "Why won't the Bush administration obey the law?"
A reference resource: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is online here [Westlaw]
Accused Terrorist Padilla - LA Times: "Court refuses request to move suspect to civilian custody; rebukes Bush administration for handling of case"
.......... - Christian Science Monitor: "Opinion 'strongly rebukes' Bush administration for apparently trying to avoid Supreme Court"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
A Community-boosting Holiday tradition: "Dover Renaissance's 'Doors of Dover' contest promotes hometown pride"
A Quaker Christmas: "Christmas kept sacred, simple by Society of Friends"
Alternative Minimum Tax: "The alternative minimum tax threatens millions more of middle class"
.................... - "What AMT is, and why it may affect you"
Medicare Part D: "Medicare prescription plan signs a million new members"
Wal-Mart: "California jury awards $172M judgment; Wal-Mart failed to give lunch breaks to employees"
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