PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "TW3: March 20 - 26, 2006"
Mondays, PLAINFIELD TODAY is a digest of Plainfield-only news from the past week: That Was The Week That Was -- or TW3 -- with links to the online stories.
(Photo, Plainfield Plain Talker)
Plain Talker: "City Loses Outspoken Activist in passing of Phyllis Mason"
Schools: "Cedarbrook students first to taste carbonation-enhanced fruit"
Connections?
Other stories pertinent to Plainfield
..... - Theater: "Vision Takes On Reality as Group Inches Closer to a Stage of Its Own"
..... - Pay-to-Play: "East Brunswick considers pay-to-play reform"
Legal Notices: Go here, and click 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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. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
. |..Click HERE to get listing form..|
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NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
MIA: An important article about the training of Planning and Zoning Board members,
in today's Ledger print edition. Hope it turns up online later...
Corzine: "Corzine talks up budget at Menlo Park Diner in Edison"
Menendez' House Seat: "For Sires, Few Hurdles Left on Way to Washington"
Public Records - Editorial, CN: "Court keeps public access cost-effective"
.......... - Fair fees for facts...what's not to like?
Turnpike Sale - Editorial, SL: "Turnpike sale plan makes no sense"
Towns:
..... - Camden: "City known for crime and corruption has fast-rising home prices"
............... - "Camden High principal says he was pressured to doctor test scores"
..... - Newark: "Berkeley College, for-profit business school, coming to Newark"
..... - Montclair: "Montclair fire displaces 75 senior citizens"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Afghanistan: "Court drops charges against convert to Christianity"
Belarus: "Dissidents try to regroup after arrests"
Dems: "With an Eye on Politics, John Edwards Makes Poverty His Cause"
Immigrants: "Groundswell of Protests Back Illegal Immigrants"
..... - OpEd, SL: John Farmer: "In immigration reform, border control must be job No.1"
Iraq War: "In an Election Year, a Shift in Public Opinion on the War"
............... - Chart detailing support for war over 3-year period is here
.......... - "Is It a Civil War, or Something Else?"
.......... - "Shiite Fighters Clash With G.I.'s and Iraqi Forces"
..... - Runup - NYT: "Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Graphic, New York Times)
Cell Phone Hell: "Cellphones in Flight? This Means War!"
Black Youth - OpEd, NYT: Orlando Patterson: "A Poverty of the Mind"
Boomer Inheritances: "Inherit the Wind; There's Little Else Left"
Buyouts: "How to Look at a Gift Horse"
Film - Spike Lee: "Play It Again, Spike. It's Worth It."
Mark Twain, Development Director?: "Frontier fundraising part of author's past"
Stock Market: "True or False: A Hedge Fund Plotted to Hurt a Drug Maker?"
Television - al Jazeera: "Translation: Is the Whole World Watching?"
..... - The English-language website is here, and the Arabic site here
Tax-Return Loans: "Those tax-return loans can be mighty expensive"
SPORTS LINKS: Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
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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Plainfield Today: "TW3: March 20 - 26, 2006"
Mondays, PLAINFIELD TODAY is a digest of Plainfield-only news from the past week: That Was The Week That Was -- or TW3 -- with links to the online stories.
(Photo, Plainfield Plain Talker)
Plain Talker: "City Loses Outspoken Activist in passing of Phyllis Mason"
Schools: "Cedarbrook students first to taste carbonation-enhanced fruit"
Connections?
Other stories pertinent to Plainfield
..... - Theater: "Vision Takes On Reality as Group Inches Closer to a Stage of Its Own"
..... - Pay-to-Play: "East Brunswick considers pay-to-play reform"
Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
Events for this week are here
. x----------------------------------x
. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
. |..Click HERE to get listing form..|
. x----------------------------------x
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
MIA: An important article about the training of Planning and Zoning Board members,
in today's Ledger print edition. Hope it turns up online later...
Corzine: "Corzine talks up budget at Menlo Park Diner in Edison"
Menendez' House Seat: "For Sires, Few Hurdles Left on Way to Washington"
Public Records - Editorial, CN: "Court keeps public access cost-effective"
.......... - Fair fees for facts...what's not to like?
Turnpike Sale - Editorial, SL: "Turnpike sale plan makes no sense"
Towns:
..... - Camden: "City known for crime and corruption has fast-rising home prices"
............... - "Camden High principal says he was pressured to doctor test scores"
..... - Newark: "Berkeley College, for-profit business school, coming to Newark"
..... - Montclair: "Montclair fire displaces 75 senior citizens"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Afghanistan: "Court drops charges against convert to Christianity"
Belarus: "Dissidents try to regroup after arrests"
Dems: "With an Eye on Politics, John Edwards Makes Poverty His Cause"
Immigrants: "Groundswell of Protests Back Illegal Immigrants"
..... - OpEd, SL: John Farmer: "In immigration reform, border control must be job No.1"
Iraq War: "In an Election Year, a Shift in Public Opinion on the War"
............... - Chart detailing support for war over 3-year period is here
.......... - "Is It a Civil War, or Something Else?"
.......... - "Shiite Fighters Clash With G.I.'s and Iraqi Forces"
..... - Runup - NYT: "Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Graphic, New York Times)
Cell Phone Hell: "Cellphones in Flight? This Means War!"
Black Youth - OpEd, NYT: Orlando Patterson: "A Poverty of the Mind"
Boomer Inheritances: "Inherit the Wind; There's Little Else Left"
Buyouts: "How to Look at a Gift Horse"
Film - Spike Lee: "Play It Again, Spike. It's Worth It."
Mark Twain, Development Director?: "Frontier fundraising part of author's past"
Stock Market: "True or False: A Hedge Fund Plotted to Hurt a Drug Maker?"
Television - al Jazeera: "Translation: Is the Whole World Watching?"
..... - The English-language website is here, and the Arabic site here
Tax-Return Loans: "Those tax-return loans can be mighty expensive"
SPORTS LINKS: Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
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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