PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
GAFFE OF THE WEEK?
I know, I know -- It was JEAN Stapleton in Archie Bunker, not Maureen. Sorry.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Green introduces bill to make Chiefs of Police contractual employees"
Crime [3rd to last]: "Police arrest two on weapons charges"
..... - Could these two have anything to do with gunshots heard in various neighborhoods?
Legislature - CN: "Bill would monitor Jersey's top cops"
............... The Courier puts story on Assemblyman Green's legislation on front page
..... - SL: "Lawmaker wants way to remove top cops; Santiago appears to be target"
Letter to Editor, CN: Nan Anderson: "Divided Plainfield fails the children"
..... - Anderson, daughter of the late Helen Miller, is a School Board candidate
'No Child Left Behind' Act: "Under-performing schools scramble to make the grade"
..... - 67 -- one in Plainfield -- must raise their test scores or undergo major changes
Connections?
Other stories pertinent to Plainfield
..... - Gentrification: "Montclair trend is trouble for an 'oasis'"
..... - Grant misapplied: "S. Orange trustees admit grant cannot be applied to project"
..... - Redevelopment: "Warehouse tenant battles on fate of building"
..... - Open Government - Editorial, CN: "Sunshine Week about the fight to know"
Legal Notices: Go here, and clilck on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
Events for this week are here
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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Edison: "Edison, tipped off, was first to know of tainted debris"
Elizabeth: "Elizabeth principal on leave for safety"
Hillside: "Hillside ABC session raises questions on open meeting law"
North Plainfield: "AG sides with North Plainfield man fighting to have a dog at his condo"
Union Twp.: "Town OKs job rules for off-duty cops; lets them make up to $45/hour"
Wal-Mart: "Study: Wal-Mart abuses N.J. health care"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: "Corzine budget plan includes higher taxes"
Menendez: "Menendez offers amendment to increase funds for port security"
Internet Business: "Searching the World, From Jersey City"
..... - You can give the Accoona search engine a whirl here
The Mob and Unions: Bob Braun: "Imagine labor with its past mob-free"
Ports:
..... - South Florida Sun: "Dubai firm accused of breaking pledge to divest itself"
..... - Washington Biz Journal: "Carlyle Group explores acquisition of port operations"
............... Now you have to know this is W's daddy and his friends...
Schools Construction Corp.: "Crisis at School Agency Reflects Missteps, Trenton Says"
Schools Investigation:
..... - SL: "Report energizes critics of superintendents' perks"
.......... - Editorial, SL: "End hidden school perks"
..... - Home News: "Hub City (New Brunswick) school deals assailed in state report"
..... - Bergen Record: "Report faults Teaneck moves that inflated pensions"
..... - Daily Record: "Hopatcong superintendent named in investigators' report"
Legislature:
..... - Infighting: "Weinberg left off Senate health panel; stand on needle exchange seen as basis"
..... - Medicaid: "Legislators demand new agency to probe Medicaid fraud and waste"
..... - Police Chiefs: "Bill introduced to make Chiefs of Police contractual employees"
..... - Crime Victims: "Reform of crime victim board gets renewed push in Trenton"
..... - Charity Clothing Bins: "Bill to require disclosure of those run by for-profit middlemen"
State Pensions: Tom Moran: "Learning the painful lessons on pensions"
Supreme Court: "Court lowers standard to prove insurance fraud in New Jersey"
Treasury Probe: "Ethics probe targets more Treasury staff; Revenue chief ousted"
Towns - Irvington: "Irvington's East Ward is on its way"
Utilities Billing Shell Game?: "Many Utilities Collect for Taxes They Never Pay"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central:
..... - Domestic spying - WP: "FBI Took Photos of Antiwar Activists in 2002"
Big Oil - WP: "Big Oil Defends Industry Mergers in Hearing"
Dems - AP: "Feingold Assails Dems on Bush Censure"
Iran - TomPaine: "Deja Vu All Over Again With Iran"
..... - WP: "Top U.S. Military Official: No Evidence of Iran Involvement in Iraq"
..... - Jerusalem Post: "US monitoring Israel's Iran options"
Iraq - WP: "Bush Sets Target for Transition In Iraq"
..... - Common Dreams: Howard Zinn: "Lessons of Iraq War Start With US History"
..... - InterPress: "Bush Push: Forum Over Substance"
..... - Guardian/UK: "US postwar Iraq strategy a mess, Blair was told in secret memos"
National Debt - CSM: "Is rising US public debt sustainable?"
Ports: [See New Jersey section]
Privatization - OpEd, LAT: Moshe Adler: "Sometimes, government is the answer"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
SPORTS LINKS: Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
Ambien, again: "Study Links Ambien Use to Unconscious Food Forays"
Book Review: "When Cancer Strikes, a High Achiever Plans"
Book Review: "Fukuyama: Supporter's Voice Now Turns on Bush"
Burlesque: "Burlesque 101 at the Red Hots Burlesque School of Shimmy"
College Aid: "Colleges Open Minority Aid to All Comers"
Event Planning: Steve Adubato: "Techniques to make the conference a hit"
Microbrews: "U.S. pale ale microbrew is a coarse course"
Military Wives: "The Home Fires Are Burning Out"
National Anthem: "Music Teachers Project Reteaches National Anthem"
Pregnancy: "Silent Struggle Between Mother and Fetus: A New Theory of Pregnancy"
'St. Domino's, FL': Fran Wood: "Hoping for utopia, they may get something better"
..... America has a long history of utopian communities -- religious and secular. But
..... is it possible to "create a socially controlled community in today's world?"
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Mississippi: "Road to Rebirth Diverges on a Mississippi Bridge"
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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