PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
Flying 'on instruments' today, gang. Have you looked out the window? I always check the
online articles against the print edition -- you can't tell the relative importance the editors
assign stories from the online editions very well, and of course there's always the stuff
that never gets online. But I don't plan to budge from the house just yet.....Dan
..... "We're in for a 'classic,' storm forecaster says"
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Belafonte's film masterpiece 'Odds Against Tomorrow' shows at Library"
Plain Talker: "Bonaparte's Topeka Contract Unveiled"
PHS Basketball: "Free-throw shooter No. 2: Anthony Nelson, Plainfield junior guard"
.......... Related story: "Following through: Free-throw shooting"
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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Bedminster: "Bedminster committeeman faces recall effort"
Edison: "McGreevey aides Taffet and Levinsohn now in real estate"
Franklin Twp.: "Affordable housing plan generates an outcry"
.......Council makes back-door deals, subverts Planning Board, political donors make out...
Jayson Williams: "Limo driver's sister waits for news on retrial for ex-NBA star"
Piscataway: "Neighbor vows to stop Korean church in her residential neighborhood"
Scotch Plains: "Unbridled ire for zoo plan; allegation it's a for-profit business"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, February 12, 2006"
Menendez: "Menendez chides Bush budget plan"
Codey on Budget: "$800M revenue boost makes it just 'gloom,' Codey says of shortfall"
Courts: "State appellate court gets its 1st black woman judge, Paulette Sapp-Peterson"
Hockey Gambling Scandal - "The jock, the cop, the mob, the bets"
..... - Bergen Record: "Six more troopers heard on wiretaps"
.......... Why would Rick Fuentes even bother to say no one had bet on their own games?
..... - OpEd, Ledger: "Placing bets on hypocrisy"
Holocaust Studies: "Diary of a Teenage Hit - 'Anne Frank' at Paper Mill"
Katrina Flim-flam: "2 milked strangers' kindness, police say"
Lead Abatement: "$20M in lead funding at risk; State slow on abatement programs"
Newark: "Booker keeps promise to run again for mayor; March 16 deadline for Sharpe"
..... - Subway: "Newark hopes extension sparks downtown renaissance"
..... - OpEd, SL: Joan Whitlow: "Is this any way to inspect Newark's houses?"
Orange: "Former hat factory to house condos, artist studios and retail space"
.......... Now here's an interesting concept...
Paterson: "Paterson, the Yellowstone of the East?"
Readington: "Hindu temple would be 4 within one"
Same-sex Marriage: "Marriage test heads to Supreme Court; Suit seeks to expand definition"
..... - Related story: "The race factor in the battle over same-sex marriage"
Xanadu - Meadowlands Development: "Trouble in Paradise"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central:
..... - Abramoff - AP: "Three More Lawmakers Linked to Abramoff"
.......... - LAT: "Used nonprofits to evade taxes, pad pockets, bribe officials"
..... - Domestic spying:
.......... - NYT: "Attention in Spying Debate Turns to Telecom Industry"
Free Speech - Progressive: "VA Nurse Investigated for “Sedition” for Criticizing Bush"
Iraq War Runup - Foreign Affairs: "Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq"
....... A devastating critique by a former senior Middle East analyst and Bush appointee,
....... in America's most prestigious foreign policy publication.
Medicare - SL: "How Medicare drug plan went wrong; Crafted behind closed doors"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Crime: "Violent Crime Rising Sharply in Some Cities"
....... and a chart of various cities' homicide rates, 2000-2005, is here
(Home) Elevators: "For the upwardly mobile, elevators make the home"
........ Coming soon to neighborhoods near you?
Environment: "'What would Jesus drive?' Drew grad leads 'creation care' campaign"
Real Estate: "Can you afford to live in New Jersey?"
Religious Fundraising: "Religious Institutions Try Innovative Fund-Raisers"
Search Engines and China: "Search engines deny complicity in China censorship"
Senior Housing: "East Orange Seniors only housing problematic; disabled taking more spots"
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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