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Monday, May 08, 2006

08 - Mon TW3 - May 1 - May 7... Anti-crime march... Irvington construction safety issue... Hookergate?...

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Good grief! Now we have 'Hookergate'?! - See Nation/World...

PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________

Plainfield Today: "TW3: May 1 - May 7, 2006"
..... - Plainfield-centered news digest of the past week

Anti-Crime March: "Two mothers organize Plainfield anti-crime march"

Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Irvington Construction Issues: "Safety becomes as issue in school building program"
.......... - What role, if any, did Mr. Saleem play in this matter?
..... - County Perks: "Living in a county-owned Summit house, at $300 a month"
..... - Ex-cons: "Getting Past 'Game Face' in Job Interviews"
..... - Arts Districts/Lofts: "Desperately Seeking Artists"
..... - Gas Boycotts: "Message Aimed at Big Oil, Town Council Shoots Itself In Foot"
..... - Retailing: "Making a Store New While Keeping It Old"
..... - Taxing Nonprofits: "Playing Tough With the Tax-Exempt"
..... - Immigrants: "Health Care Eludes Families in the Shadows"
..... - Johns, Drug Buyers: "Naming Names in Paterson, and Let the Named Beware"

Events for this week are here

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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________

Summit: "Overlook Hospital in 6-hour blackout"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

Budget: "Legislature to tackle campaign funding reform, Corzine budget this week"
..... - "Lack of support for comptroller shows divide between governor, Legislature"
State Tagline: "'New Jersey: We dumped our slogan'"
William Paterson U.: "Jazz Is King at William Paterson"
Schools Construction Corp.: "Safety becomes as issue in school building program"
State Police Spending: "Charges of abuse surround police spending"
Xanadu: "Mills brings in a repairman"
Towns:

..... - Newark: "Election for Newark mayor a battle of the generations"
.......... - Council - NYT: "Rare Power Vacuum on Newark's Council"
............... -"What is at stake for the city is the extent to which the next four years will
............... - be marked by acrimony and divisiveness and more than a tad of incivility
............... - between the executive branch and the Council," said Clement Price, a
............... - historian at Rutgers-Newark."
.......... - NYT: "Booker Mayoral Campaign Has Air of Coronation, Not Countdown"
.......... - The Ledger's Newark campaign blog is here, and the NY Times blog is here
..... - Rumson: "More Than Just a Beach Town"
..... - Jersey City: "WALDO: Desperately Seeking Artists"
..... - Newark: "A Trophy Address: The Colonnade, A Glass Box by Mies"
..... - Irvington: "Safety becomes as issue in school building program"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

Scandal Central:
..... - Abramoff: "DeLay Office Knew Abramoff Arranged Trip"
..... - Hookergate?: "More Questions in Wake of a Congressman's Bribery Case"
..... - Plamegate - Reuters: "Libby lawyer to argue Bush's role in leak"
.......... - Rove: "Last Question Is Obstruction for Fitzgerald, Rove":





CIA -
Daily News: "CIA boss Goss is cooked"
..... - NYT: "A Long Legacy of Frustration at C.I.A. Helm" - with annotated timeline
..... - Replacement: "Key Republican Airs Concerns on C.I.A. Pick"
..... - Nation: "Goss'd Out Because of Hookers?"

Gas Prices - World Survey, NYT: "Abroad at the Pump, Circumspection by the Barrel"
Guantanamo - Guardian/UK: "British Attorney General calls for Guantanamo to close"
Immigration - NYT: "Border Arrests Rise as U.S. Debates Immigration Issue"
Medicare: "Enrollment deadline nears for Medicare drug benefit"
'Selling' Democracy - Truthout: William Fisher: "Remember the Edsel!"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________

Abortion: "South Dakota energized, voters may decide abortion ban, Legislature, Governor"
Canadian Geese: "Wooden Dogs May Fake the Geese Out"
-- Yeah, right...
Condi on Friendship: "We have no better friend..."
Job Interviews: "Sometimes the Right Approach Is Putting the Best Face Forward"

Personal Finance: "How to Improve Your Credit Score"

Public Access TV: "A Gay Soap (and Soapbox) in the Bronx"
The Tappan Zee Bridge: "The Tappan Zee Divide"
-- what to do?
TV: "Someone Has to Pay for TV. But Who? And How?"
..... - A patent to lock your TV during commercials? Wait, it gets worse...

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