PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
BREAKING NEWS: Word was received late Thursday afternoon of the death of former
Councilwoman Helen Miller, who had been in failing health recently. CN obit below.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Dan heads for the exit"
A1 Rose Movers sued: "Plainfield moving company among 8 AG's office suing"
Letter to Editor, CN: Michael Jessie: "Past greats knew value of liberty"
Obituary: "Helen Miller, former Plainfield councilwoman, seniors advocate"
TEAMS Charter School: "Science bus makes stop in Plainfield"
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. |...PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR...|
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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Linden: "DOT plans to put safety barriers up on Rts. 1&9"
Union County: "Freeholders eye layoffs as way to trim FY2007 budget"
Union Twp.: "AG charges Wal-Mart with discrimination"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: "Governor taps trio to help bring 'stability' to UMDNJ"
Auto Insurance: "'04 car insurer profits remain level"
Black History: "Teaching black history struggles to gain traction among state schools"
Electricity Bills - Yours: "Auction sends electric bills skyrocketing"
Heroism Scholarships: "Boys went above and beyond to earn scholarships for valor"
Hockey Betting Scandal: "Gretzky in damage control on wiretap; 2nd trooper suspended"
Legislature: "Clean-water fund gains"
..... - "Unions leader reaches across the aisle to the Republican side"
..... - "School librarian Oadline Truitt takes Assembly seat"
..... - "Just a trim, please: Barber bill advances"
..... - "Stender's school lunch bill passes committee"
..... - "Laser bill among 22 passed by Assembly"
Monmouth County: "2 former officials plead guilty in Monmouth corruption case"
Newark: "Feds want to hear from Newark cop who escorted mobster funeral"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central:
..... - Abramoff - Reuters: "Abramoff: Bush knew me, all right"
.......... - Wall Street Journal: "White House Can't Sweep Aside Abramoff"
.......... - USAToday: "Abramoff paid for GOP aide's trip, records show"
.......... - WP: "Abramoff Team and Reid's Office Had Frequent Contact"
..... - DeLay - AP: "Though Indicted, DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot"
..... - Domestic spying:
.......... - Financial Times/UK: "Bush faces Republican revolt over spying"
.......... - Guardian/UK: "The president, the stripper and the attorney general"
............... 'Gonzales' defence reads like a blend of Kafka, Le Carré and Mel Brooks'
..... - Plamegate - WP: "Libby Testified He Was Told To Leak Data About Iraq"
.......... - AP: "Libby: White House 'superiors' OK'd leaks"
.......... - Truthout: "Cheney Spearheaded Effort to Discredit Wilson"
..... - Torture - AP: "House Committee Squashes Torture Queries"
2006 Elections - WP: "Cheney Says NSA Spying Should Be an Election Issue"
Army - WV Gazette: "Army blasted over charging wounded soldier for damaged body armor"
....... Seriously wounded by roadside bomb and now medically discharged,
....... he was charged by Army for damaged gear
China - ABC News: "Groups says Yahoo aided government crackdown on dissident"
Drug Companies - Tennessean: "Hastert, Frist said to rig bill for drug firms"
Patriot Act - SL: "Tweaks to Patriot Act appear to break Senate deadlock"
Surveillance - Le Monde: "US Suspected of Having Tapped Greek Leaders' Phones"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Black History Month: "The philosopher-king; New Jerseyan led unusual experiment in democracy"
Culinary Fraud?: "Culinary fraud sniffed out in cans of chichi 'olive oil'"
The King Funeral - Analysis: "Of his own volition, Bush was trapped like a rat"
....... A central tenet of the civil rights movement has always been speaking truth to power
....... to effect change. Truth spoke to power at Coretta's funeral...will there be change?
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Levees: "White House Knew of Levee's Failure on Night of Storm"
ABBREVIATIONS FOR FREQUENTLY CITED NEWS SOURCES
CN - Courier News | SL - Star-Ledger | NYT - New York Times | WP - Washington Post |
AFP - Agence France Presse | AP - Associated Press | APP - Asbury Park Press | BR - Bergen Record |
CSM - Christian Science Monitor | CP - Courier Post [Cherry Hill] | HNT - Home News [New Brunswick] |
JJ - Jersey Journal [Jersey City] | LAT - Los Angeles Times | ND - Newsday | NOLA - Times-Picayune |
NPR - National Public Radio | PNJ - Politics NJ | TT - Trenton Times |
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BREAKING NEWS: Word was received late Thursday afternoon of the death of former
Councilwoman Helen Miller, who had been in failing health recently. CN obit below.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Dan heads for the exit"
A1 Rose Movers sued: "Plainfield moving company among 8 AG's office suing"
Letter to Editor, CN: Michael Jessie: "Past greats knew value of liberty"
Obituary: "Helen Miller, former Plainfield councilwoman, seniors advocate"
TEAMS Charter School: "Science bus makes stop in Plainfield"
. x--------------------------------x
. |...PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR...|
..|.Click HERE to get listing form.|
. x--------------------------------x
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Linden: "DOT plans to put safety barriers up on Rts. 1&9"
Union County: "Freeholders eye layoffs as way to trim FY2007 budget"
Union Twp.: "AG charges Wal-Mart with discrimination"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: "Governor taps trio to help bring 'stability' to UMDNJ"
Auto Insurance: "'04 car insurer profits remain level"
Black History: "Teaching black history struggles to gain traction among state schools"
Electricity Bills - Yours: "Auction sends electric bills skyrocketing"
Heroism Scholarships: "Boys went above and beyond to earn scholarships for valor"
Hockey Betting Scandal: "Gretzky in damage control on wiretap; 2nd trooper suspended"
Legislature: "Clean-water fund gains"
..... - "Unions leader reaches across the aisle to the Republican side"
..... - "School librarian Oadline Truitt takes Assembly seat"
..... - "Just a trim, please: Barber bill advances"
..... - "Stender's school lunch bill passes committee"
..... - "Laser bill among 22 passed by Assembly"
Monmouth County: "2 former officials plead guilty in Monmouth corruption case"
Newark: "Feds want to hear from Newark cop who escorted mobster funeral"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central:
..... - Abramoff - Reuters: "Abramoff: Bush knew me, all right"
.......... - Wall Street Journal: "White House Can't Sweep Aside Abramoff"
.......... - USAToday: "Abramoff paid for GOP aide's trip, records show"
.......... - WP: "Abramoff Team and Reid's Office Had Frequent Contact"
..... - DeLay - AP: "Though Indicted, DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot"
..... - Domestic spying:
.......... - Financial Times/UK: "Bush faces Republican revolt over spying"
.......... - Guardian/UK: "The president, the stripper and the attorney general"
............... 'Gonzales' defence reads like a blend of Kafka, Le Carré and Mel Brooks'
..... - Plamegate - WP: "Libby Testified He Was Told To Leak Data About Iraq"
.......... - AP: "Libby: White House 'superiors' OK'd leaks"
.......... - Truthout: "Cheney Spearheaded Effort to Discredit Wilson"
..... - Torture - AP: "House Committee Squashes Torture Queries"
2006 Elections - WP: "Cheney Says NSA Spying Should Be an Election Issue"
Army - WV Gazette: "Army blasted over charging wounded soldier for damaged body armor"
....... Seriously wounded by roadside bomb and now medically discharged,
....... he was charged by Army for damaged gear
China - ABC News: "Groups says Yahoo aided government crackdown on dissident"
Drug Companies - Tennessean: "Hastert, Frist said to rig bill for drug firms"
Patriot Act - SL: "Tweaks to Patriot Act appear to break Senate deadlock"
Surveillance - Le Monde: "US Suspected of Having Tapped Greek Leaders' Phones"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Black History Month: "The philosopher-king; New Jerseyan led unusual experiment in democracy"
Culinary Fraud?: "Culinary fraud sniffed out in cans of chichi 'olive oil'"
The King Funeral - Analysis: "Of his own volition, Bush was trapped like a rat"
....... A central tenet of the civil rights movement has always been speaking truth to power
....... to effect change. Truth spoke to power at Coretta's funeral...will there be change?
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Levees: "White House Knew of Levee's Failure on Night of Storm"
ABBREVIATIONS FOR FREQUENTLY CITED NEWS SOURCES
CN - Courier News | SL - Star-Ledger | NYT - New York Times | WP - Washington Post |
AFP - Agence France Presse | AP - Associated Press | APP - Asbury Park Press | BR - Bergen Record |
CSM - Christian Science Monitor | CP - Courier Post [Cherry Hill] | HNT - Home News [New Brunswick] |
JJ - Jersey Journal [Jersey City] | LAT - Los Angeles Times | ND - Newsday | NOLA - Times-Picayune |
NPR - National Public Radio | PNJ - Politics NJ | TT - Trenton Times |
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