Note: Obituaries and assessments of Jane Jacobs are listed under 'Of Interest'
Tonight is the Mayor's Town Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Washington Community School.
You will want to come out and hear the Mayor and her team give their assessment
of Plainfield at the opening of her term and their plans for the future. Parking is available
in the lot on Spooner Avenue behind the school, as well as on the street.
Along with several hundred people, Flor Gonzalez and I attended the funeral Wednesday
morning of Fausto Fabin Ramos, the man killed by a Plainfield police car last week.
No representative of the City was seen at the church service.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "More than flyers found in the garbage..."
Fire: "Blaze forces family from Richmond Street home" -- plus a narrated photo essay
Profile: "Michael Riecken: Young scholar makes his exodus into Egypt"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - School Cellphone Bans: "Cellphone Ban Is Enforced, and Parents Howl, Too"
..... - Tax Revaluation: "$11.6 million tax assessment is upheld"
..... - Budgets: "As fiscal year ends, Perth Amboy still without budget; State has questions"
..... - Bedminster Recall: Editorial: "Now it's Joerger's call on recall"
Events for this week are here
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Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Bound Brook: "Judge accuses prosecutor of delays in Bound Brook police chief case"
Elizabeth: "Schoolmarms of the wild frontier"
Hillside: "School board elects president, studies possibility of TV, newsletter"
Rahway: "City still hopes to acquire church for hotel-condominium project"
South Plainfield: "Police probe South Plainfield High School brawl"
Union County Arts Center, Rahway: "Lisa Loeb grateful for small venues"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine - SL: "Plan to hike the sales tax puts end to honeymoon for Corzine"
..... - CN: "Corzine's reputation takes big hit over budget predicament"
Anthrax Samples: "Probe continues into 2 missing anthrax vials"
Bias: "Unmasking bias with humor"
Business: "IDT opts to shut Newark facility, meaning layoffs"
..... - "Exelon may kill PSEG deal rather than sell plants"
..... - "Oil Companies: Don't hate them for being rich"
Hospital Finances: "Failing hospitals concern governor"
Immigrant Boycott - CN: "Hispanic leaders advocate 'Day Without an Immigrant'"
Immigrant Raid Rumors - CN: "Officials: No truth to rumors of raids on illegals"
..... - Record: "False raid rumors spread, panicking local immigrants"
Meadowlands: "Bird study suggests the Meadowlands' ecology is flying high"
Nerve Gas Disposal: "Andrews asks review of Army plan to dispose of nerve agent in Jersey"
Schools Construction Corp.: "SCC to raze apartment for Union City school"
Treffinger: "Ex-Essex official settles with feds over campaign fund-raising; Fined $171K"
Workplace Safety Trial - SL: "Jury slaps Phillipsburg pipe firm for death, pollution"
..... - NYT: "Guilty Verdicts in New Jersey Worker-Safety Trial"
Towns:
..... - Newark: "Rice and Booker clash on solutions for schools"
........ - West Ward Race: "3 challenge Bridgeforth in West Ward" -- candidate profiles
............. - The Ledger's Newark campaign blog is here, and the NY Times blog is here
........ - James' Slush Funds - SL: "Newark, state go to mat about city's intent for funding"
............. - NYT: "Corzine Jousts With James in Newark"
..... - Teaneck: "How an oasis was won: The Teaneck Creek Conservancy"
..... - Asbury Park: "Asbury Park to blast away a sad legacy"
..... - East Orange: "Ex-cop admits taking $5,000 in hush money"
.......... - "City puts residential, commercial sites on the block in Bowser's 17th auction"
..... - Montclair: "Montclair budget would raise taxes"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central:
..... - CIA 'Renditions': "Probe finds CIA flew away suspects from around Europe"
..... - Plamegate - NYT: "Grand Jury Gets Rove Testimony Over C.I.A. Leak"
.......... - WP: "Rove Testifies 5th Time On Leak"
FEMA - SL: "Report calls for abolition of FEMA"
Immigration Debate - SL: "In Mexico, U.S. lobbyists dread boycott"
Iraq - WP: "Projected Iraq War Costs Soar, Likely to More Than Double, Analysis Finds"
Rumsfeld - WP: "Senate Panel Considers Hearing on Rumsfeld"
White House Staff - Column, WP: Howard Kurtz: "Tony Snow: Foxy Spokesman"
.......... - Analysis, WP: "Snow Pick May Signal Less Insular White House"
..... - NYT: "Bush Hires a Loyal Critic as Spokesman"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Illustration, New York Times)
Food Tools: "A Tool for Every Treat"
Eating With a Foodie Nutritionist: "Field Guide to the Grocery Aisles"
Geek Patrol: "IE7: New Tricks of a Browser Look Familiar"
..... - I post this story with trepidation -- I'm a diehard Firefox user: better, faster, safer.
Goldwater Scholarship: "Collegians from Jersey schools awarded Goldwater Scholarship"
Passwords: "9 Perfect Password Pointers"
Peter, Paul & Mary: "Performing Friday at The State Theatre, New Brunswick"
JANE JACOBS: OBITUARIES / ASSESSMENTS___________________________________________________
Note: Copies of all articles below are cached on my special Plainfield Stuff blog -- Dan
New York Times: "Jane Jacobs, Who Redefined and Championed Cities"
Washington Post: "Jane Jacobs, 89; Writer, Activist Spoke Out Against Urban Renewal"
Toronto Globe and Mail:
..... - Obituary: "Jane Jacobs, Writer, Urban Planner, Activist: 1916-2006"
..... - An Appreciation: John Barber: "Fond farewell to an urban prophet"
..... - News Story: "Tributes pour in for thinker, planner and activist Jacobs"
..... - Breaking News - Tuesday: "Jane Jacobs"
Toronto Star:
..... - Obituary: "Jane Jacobs, 89: Urban crusader"
..... - An Appreciation: "She wrote the book on cities"
..... - OpEd: Christopher Hume: "T.O. owes debt to Jacobs"
..... - Editorial: "Editorial: Toronto loses a friend"
..... - Column: Martin Knelman: "Jacobs a thinker uncaring of laurels"
..... - News: "Letter of protest Jacobs' last act"
Los Angeles Times: "Jane Jacobs: Activist Fought Lower Manhattan Freeway Plan"
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
SPORTS LINKS: Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Aid: "Evacuees Find Housing Grants Will End Soon"
PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
ABBREVIATIONS AND LINKS 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 |
(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have
expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
Plainfiield Today and Clippings have no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of these articles nor are
Plainfield Today or Clippings endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
Some publications, such as the NY Times and the Ledger, remove their articles from free access after a
period of time (for the Times it is one week, for the Ledger two). This means the link may become broken
or may lead you to a pay-for-access page. If you are a 'clipper,' save the interesting stories to your hard drive
the day you read them, that way you will always have access to them.
*
Tonight is the Mayor's Town Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Washington Community School.
You will want to come out and hear the Mayor and her team give their assessment
of Plainfield at the opening of her term and their plans for the future. Parking is available
in the lot on Spooner Avenue behind the school, as well as on the street.
Along with several hundred people, Flor Gonzalez and I attended the funeral Wednesday
morning of Fausto Fabin Ramos, the man killed by a Plainfield police car last week.
No representative of the City was seen at the church service.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "More than flyers found in the garbage..."
Fire: "Blaze forces family from Richmond Street home" -- plus a narrated photo essay
Profile: "Michael Riecken: Young scholar makes his exodus into Egypt"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - School Cellphone Bans: "Cellphone Ban Is Enforced, and Parents Howl, Too"
..... - Tax Revaluation: "$11.6 million tax assessment is upheld"
..... - Budgets: "As fiscal year ends, Perth Amboy still without budget; State has questions"
..... - Bedminster Recall: Editorial: "Now it's Joerger's call on recall"
Events for this week are here
. x----------------------------------x
. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
. |..Click HERE to get listing form..|
. x----------------------------------x
Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Bound Brook: "Judge accuses prosecutor of delays in Bound Brook police chief case"
Elizabeth: "Schoolmarms of the wild frontier"
Hillside: "School board elects president, studies possibility of TV, newsletter"
Rahway: "City still hopes to acquire church for hotel-condominium project"
South Plainfield: "Police probe South Plainfield High School brawl"
Union County Arts Center, Rahway: "Lisa Loeb grateful for small venues"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine - SL: "Plan to hike the sales tax puts end to honeymoon for Corzine"
..... - CN: "Corzine's reputation takes big hit over budget predicament"
Anthrax Samples: "Probe continues into 2 missing anthrax vials"
Bias: "Unmasking bias with humor"
Business: "IDT opts to shut Newark facility, meaning layoffs"
..... - "Exelon may kill PSEG deal rather than sell plants"
..... - "Oil Companies: Don't hate them for being rich"
Hospital Finances: "Failing hospitals concern governor"
Immigrant Boycott - CN: "Hispanic leaders advocate 'Day Without an Immigrant'"
Immigrant Raid Rumors - CN: "Officials: No truth to rumors of raids on illegals"
..... - Record: "False raid rumors spread, panicking local immigrants"
Meadowlands: "Bird study suggests the Meadowlands' ecology is flying high"
Nerve Gas Disposal: "Andrews asks review of Army plan to dispose of nerve agent in Jersey"
Schools Construction Corp.: "SCC to raze apartment for Union City school"
Treffinger: "Ex-Essex official settles with feds over campaign fund-raising; Fined $171K"
Workplace Safety Trial - SL: "Jury slaps Phillipsburg pipe firm for death, pollution"
..... - NYT: "Guilty Verdicts in New Jersey Worker-Safety Trial"
Towns:
..... - Newark: "Rice and Booker clash on solutions for schools"
........ - West Ward Race: "3 challenge Bridgeforth in West Ward" -- candidate profiles
............. - The Ledger's Newark campaign blog is here, and the NY Times blog is here
........ - James' Slush Funds - SL: "Newark, state go to mat about city's intent for funding"
............. - NYT: "Corzine Jousts With James in Newark"
..... - Teaneck: "How an oasis was won: The Teaneck Creek Conservancy"
..... - Asbury Park: "Asbury Park to blast away a sad legacy"
..... - East Orange: "Ex-cop admits taking $5,000 in hush money"
.......... - "City puts residential, commercial sites on the block in Bowser's 17th auction"
..... - Montclair: "Montclair budget would raise taxes"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central:
..... - CIA 'Renditions': "Probe finds CIA flew away suspects from around Europe"
..... - Plamegate - NYT: "Grand Jury Gets Rove Testimony Over C.I.A. Leak"
.......... - WP: "Rove Testifies 5th Time On Leak"
FEMA - SL: "Report calls for abolition of FEMA"
Immigration Debate - SL: "In Mexico, U.S. lobbyists dread boycott"
Iraq - WP: "Projected Iraq War Costs Soar, Likely to More Than Double, Analysis Finds"
Rumsfeld - WP: "Senate Panel Considers Hearing on Rumsfeld"
White House Staff - Column, WP: Howard Kurtz: "Tony Snow: Foxy Spokesman"
.......... - Analysis, WP: "Snow Pick May Signal Less Insular White House"
..... - NYT: "Bush Hires a Loyal Critic as Spokesman"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Illustration, New York Times)
Food Tools: "A Tool for Every Treat"
Eating With a Foodie Nutritionist: "Field Guide to the Grocery Aisles"
Geek Patrol: "IE7: New Tricks of a Browser Look Familiar"
..... - I post this story with trepidation -- I'm a diehard Firefox user: better, faster, safer.
Goldwater Scholarship: "Collegians from Jersey schools awarded Goldwater Scholarship"
Passwords: "9 Perfect Password Pointers"
Peter, Paul & Mary: "Performing Friday at The State Theatre, New Brunswick"
JANE JACOBS: OBITUARIES / ASSESSMENTS___________________________________________________
Note: Copies of all articles below are cached on my special Plainfield Stuff blog -- Dan
New York Times: "Jane Jacobs, Who Redefined and Championed Cities"
Washington Post: "Jane Jacobs, 89; Writer, Activist Spoke Out Against Urban Renewal"
Toronto Globe and Mail:
..... - Obituary: "Jane Jacobs, Writer, Urban Planner, Activist: 1916-2006"
..... - An Appreciation: John Barber: "Fond farewell to an urban prophet"
..... - News Story: "Tributes pour in for thinker, planner and activist Jacobs"
..... - Breaking News - Tuesday: "Jane Jacobs"
Toronto Star:
..... - Obituary: "Jane Jacobs, 89: Urban crusader"
..... - An Appreciation: "She wrote the book on cities"
..... - OpEd: Christopher Hume: "T.O. owes debt to Jacobs"
..... - Editorial: "Editorial: Toronto loses a friend"
..... - Column: Martin Knelman: "Jacobs a thinker uncaring of laurels"
..... - News: "Letter of protest Jacobs' last act"
Los Angeles Times: "Jane Jacobs: Activist Fought Lower Manhattan Freeway Plan"
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
SPORTS LINKS: Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Aid: "Evacuees Find Housing Grants Will End Soon"
PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
ABBREVIATIONS AND LINKS 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 |
(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have
expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
Plainfiield Today and Clippings have no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of these articles nor are
Plainfield Today or Clippings endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
Some publications, such as the NY Times and the Ledger, remove their articles from free access after a
period of time (for the Times it is one week, for the Ledger two). This means the link may become broken
or may lead you to a pay-for-access page. If you are a 'clipper,' save the interesting stories to your hard drive
the day you read them, that way you will always have access to them.
*
