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PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Reminder: Dr. Richard Neblett's memorial service is 11:30 am today,
United Church of Christ, corner West 7th & Madison Avenue.
Plainfield Today: "Corrected post: Earthquake relief fundraiser"
Plain Talker: "School Budget Lapse Shrinks To Less Than $400,000"
Ledger: "Hospitals receive $5 million for emergency preparedness"
Courier [next to last item]: "Council president Blanco completes course for elected officials"
..... - Letter to Editor: Sandy Spector: "Approximate law is not law at all"
..... - Plainfield Public Library/LVA [last item]: "Lawyers to speak to literacy volunteers"
..... - PHC: "Health Center hosts holiday open house"
The Courier print edition also has a story on AKA activities in the Community section, but
not online. Also a brief review of Anthony's Place cafe and deli on South Avenue in Local.
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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Berkelely Hts., New Providence: "2 local police departments achieve accreditation"
Bound Brook: "Boro could earn up to $29K per year from Verizon tower"
Elizabeth: "Harbor seal causes quite a stir at city marina"
Kean U.: "At 90, guitar pioneer Les Paul shows he hasn't missed a beat"
Newark International - SL: "Many in area could find noise conditions worse under new plan"
Muslim Girls' Basketball - SL: "Hoops and hijabs: S. Brunswick girls make impression on the court"
Somerset Co. Sheriff: "Provenzano pays county back for dry cleaning"
Warren/Watchung - Ledger: "Voters approve $3.2M school proposal"
..... - CN: "Voters approve additional $3M for Watchung Hills upgrades"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine - SL: "Corzine seeks new start with board at UMDNJ"
..... - Cabinet - Editorial, SL: "Confirm Zulima Farber"
Menendez - Senate seat - SL: "Pallone will back Menendez for Senate seat"
..... - CN: "Pallone refuses run at Senate seat"
Menendez' vacant House seat - SL: "Vas criticizes Sires for taking contributions from casinos"
Homeland Security - SL: "PATH station to test bomb-detection plan"
Medicare - SL: "N.J. spurns Medicare's repayment 'solution'"
..... - CN: "Feds could pay state back for Medicare overruns"
Newark - SL: "Devils barely beat Newark deadline for area financing"
..... - "State eyes fire director's status; City failed to ask for extension of leave"
Pensions: "Fired corrections executive stayed on, got pension"
Special Ed - SL: "Federal court puts further burden on special-ed families"
UMDNJ - SL: "UMDNJ paid $69,000 for one official's limos"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central:
..... - DeLay - Newsday: "Texas DA subpoenas former DeLay campaign aide"
..... - Torture - Reuters: "US 'outsourced' torture, European investigator says"
.......... - Financial Times/UK: "US employs ‘gangster’ methods, says report on CIA"
2006 Elections - OpEd, WP: E. J. Dionne: "Rove's Early Warning"
al-Qaeda - Juan Cole, U Mich.: "Top 10 mistakes of Bush in reacting to al-Qaeda"
Congress - WP: "GOP's closed-door deal makes $22 Billion difference to HMOs"
Iraq: Rebuilding - NYT: "Iraq Rebuilding Badly Hobbled, U.S. Report Finds"
.......... - NYT: "Audit Describes Misuse of Funds in Iraq Projects"
..... - Oil - WP: "Dip in Iraqi Oil Production Holds Ominous Harbinger"
Katrina - NYT: "White House Declines to Provide Storm Papers"
.......... - Ledger/AP: "Senators: Bush stonewalling Katrina probe"
McCain-Feingold Act - LAT: "Some Issue Ads Could Be Exempt, Supremes Say"
Pentagon - WP: "Strategy review calls for more elite forces to fortify military"
............ Iraq left out of planning, considered to be an 'anomaly'...
Supreme Court - SL: "Nomination of Alito is passed to full Senate"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Biz - TT: "Trenton Times, Star-Ledger plan to combine some operations"
eBay [again] - SL: "Drop shops like one in Raritan Boro pop up to collect fare for eBay"
Geek Patrol: "New coalition launches Wednesday, battles 'badware'"
............ check their site out here
Gift? Bribe?: "Ethics 101: When does a gift become a bribe?"
National Security Admin.: "Distrust of NSA has roots in '70s"
Sex Harassment: "AAUW Study: Campus sex harassment common"
TV: "Smacked down by rivals, UPN to join WB; 'CW' debuts on Channel 11 in fall"
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Rebuilding: "New Orleans Wants to Destroy Historic Homes"
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