Breaking news: "Board of Ed - Dailies' election tallies"
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Barksdale and Abdul-Haqq top vote getters"
.......... - "Thank God for Ray Blanco!"
Plain Talker: "Barksdale, Abdul-Haqq Lead BOE Winners"
School Board - CN: "Activist joins Plainfield school board"
Letters to Editor - CN: Maria Pellum: "City should better image, fight crime"
.......... - Rev. Rick Taylor: "City superintendent unaccountable"
Connections?
Food For Thought
..... - Sweetheart deals: "Booker criticizes city sale of properties; says builders get deals'"
Events for this week are here
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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Union County School Budgets: "School budgets fail in 8 of 19 county districts"
Somerset County School Budgets: "10 of 19 school budgets defeated yesterday"
Middlessex County School Budgets: "School budgets fail in 15 of 24 county districts"
Bridgewater: "Bridgewater-Raritan Boro residents approve $126M budget"
Dunellen: "Dunellen: Budget defeated by thin margin"
Middlesex Boro: "Middlesex Borough: Two incumbents snag board seats"
Scotch Plains/Fanwood: "Scotch Plains-Fanwood: Nelson, Whitehouse, Woerner win seats"
South Plainfield: "Residents refuse $50 million budget"
Union Twp.: "GOP squabbling over primary candidacies"
Warren/Watchung: "Watchung Hills: Trio of newcomers welcomed to board"
Westfield: "Shooting rumor leaves high school on guard"
.......... - "Proposed district budget approved"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: "Tax files of the rich and powerful; Corzine tops list, paying $13 million"
DYFS: "DYFS suffers crisis in personnel, keeping caseworkers a problem"
Ramapough Shooting: "Corzine-Ramapough meeting set for today"
Tobacco Settlement Money: "State sues tobacco firms in dispute over payments"
UMDNJ: "UMDNJ cashier faces trial on charges of stealing $30,000"
Towns:
..... - Newark: "Booker criticizes city sale of properties; says builders get 'rock-bottom prices'"
....... - The Ledger's Newark campaign blog is here, and the NY Times blog is here
.......... - "Mayor's yachting season went up in flames; James sues for overheating engine"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Bush - Vanity Fair: Carl Bernstein: "Senate Hearings on Bush, Now"
Cheney - Law Prof Blog: "'Katrina tax' benefits for non-Katrina charitable gifts"
Colombia: "Death squad allegations threaten to derail Bush's last Latin ally"
FBI: "Writer's survivors resent bid by FBI to scrutinize files"
Freddie Mac - WP: "Freddie Mac Settles FEC Fundraising Probe With Record Fine"
Immigration Reform - CSM: "Hiring illegals is just as illegal"
Iraq - Reconstruction - LAT: "Corruption Scandal Brings Down Former Air Force Star"
..... - Militias - KR Newswire: "U.S. knew Shiite militias were a threat but took no action"
..... - Civil War? - Truthout: "The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq"
..... - Veterans - WP: "Limbs Lost to Enemy Fire, Women Forge a New Reality"
'No Child Left Behind' - AP: "States Omitting Minorities' Test Scores"
Rumsfeld on Rumsfeld - AP: "Rumsfeld: Some grumbling inevitable"
Smithsonian - WP: "End Smithsonian-Showtime Deal, Filmmakers and Historians Ask"
White House Staff - AP: "Bush names budget aide and talks of more moves"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Pope Benedict XVI: "Low-key pontiff surprises friends and opponents"
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