PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, Dan Damon)
Church Fire: "Blaze destroys Temple Church of God in Christ"
Plainfield Today: "TW3: May 30 - June 4 - News digest of the past week"
Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal - Editorial, CN: "State workers not exempt from budget examination"
Boys and Girls Club [last item]: "Summer program focuses on the arts"
YMCA: "With housing, education, YMCA has an eye on region's needs"
Anti-Gun Alliance: "More Mayors Join New York City Antigun Effort"
..... - Mayor Bloomberg's new release; Elizabeth, Hamilton join -- and Plainfield?
Medicaid: "Medicaid Rules Toughened on Proof of Citizenship"
..... - How will this affect the Health Center's fiscal structure? Or will it?
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Abbott Schools - Editorial, SL: "Scrutinize Abbott budgets"
..... - Public Education: Bob Braun: "Is public education a people's civic duty?"
..... - Arts District: "Bringing Life to a Factory Graveyard in Orange"
..... - Civic Values - Newark: "Letter: Newark Values"
..... - Mortgages: "Black, Hispanic Homebuyers Pay Higher Interest, Study Finds"
..... - Faith-based Homeownership Programs: "Today, Homeownership Is Next to Godliness"
..... - Solar Energy: "Solar Power Where You Might Not Expect It"
........ - A solar-powered NJ funeral home that earns its owner $10K/year from energy
..... - Station Parking Spaces: "A Bid to Get Parking Passes on a Fast Track"
..... - Immigration: "FAIR Sets Up Front Group 'You Don't Speak for Me'"
..... - Veterans: "Audit finds agency errs in benefits for disabled veterans"
..... - SCC: "Trying to make amends, better work pledged on polluted Trenton schoolyard"
..... - Guns Deter Crime?: "'Freakonomics' shot holes in his data; pro-gun writer turns to lawsuit"
..... - 3rd Party Coming? - LAT: "Building a New Political Party Online, Byte by Byte"
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___________________________________________________________________________
Franklin (Somerset Co.): "Group of Dems in Franklin look to oust chairman in primary"
BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________
Death Threats - NYT: "Newark Gang Threatened Mayor-Elect Booker"
Civic Values - Newark: "Letter: Booker and Newark Values"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
'Aged out' Foster Care Youth: "New Jersey Foster Care Scholarship Program"
Budget: "State budget battle rumbles into home stretch: 5 things to watch"
Essex County: "Essex urged to overhaul Crime Scene Unit to improve conviction rate"
Legislature: "Legislators mulling medical marijuana use, funeral protests ban"
UMDNJ: "Fired UMDNJ dean accused of ethics abuse"
Vonage: "Vonage facing suit over IPO"
Towns:
..... - Montclair: "Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan visits church in Montclair"
..... - Orange: "Arts District: Bringing Life to a Factory Graveyard"
..... - Ridgewood: "Filled With Light, Rebuilt Church Destroyed by Fire Is Dedicated"
..... - Monroe Twp.: "Monroe Jewish congregation honors Chile bus crash victims"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
3rd Party Coming? - LAT: "Building a New Political Party Online, Byte by Byte"
Army vs. State? - LAT: "Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule"
Canada - SL: "Undercover Mounties brought bomb parts to terror suspects"
..... - NYT: "6 Arrested in Canada Raid Attended the Same Mosque"
Haditha Incident - SL: "General vows fair Haditha inquiry"
Iran - SL: "Iran threatens oil disruption if punished"
Jefferson Affair - WP: "For Deals, Jefferson Built Web Of Firms"
Palestine - SL: "Abbas plan is rejected by Hamas"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, Rambusch Studios)
Ground Zero Memorial: "Jersey firm's sculpture honors firefighter who died on 9/11"
Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
Childhood Obesity: "Study: Controlling parents lead kids to obesity"
College Textbooks: "Fewer Textbook Sales, but Rising Revenue"
Health: "Kidney cancer pill's 'giving people hope'"
Lobbying: "How eBay Makes Regulations Disappear"
Lottery: "The store that sold a ticket of gold" -- so maybe you should buy your tickets here?
New Jersey: "The State That Everywhere Else Is Measured By" -- offbeat piece
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
SPORTS LINKS: PHS | Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Relief and Aid Contacts:
Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
Catholic Charities: http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: http://www.uscj.org/
Islamic Relief: http://www.irw.org/
Other Area Contacts: "Indonesia Relief Contacts"
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.
Plainfield 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.
*
(Photo, Dan Damon)
Church Fire: "Blaze destroys Temple Church of God in Christ"
Plainfield Today: "TW3: May 30 - June 4 - News digest of the past week"
Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal - Editorial, CN: "State workers not exempt from budget examination"
Boys and Girls Club [last item]: "Summer program focuses on the arts"
YMCA: "With housing, education, YMCA has an eye on region's needs"
Anti-Gun Alliance: "More Mayors Join New York City Antigun Effort"
..... - Mayor Bloomberg's new release; Elizabeth, Hamilton join -- and Plainfield?
Medicaid: "Medicaid Rules Toughened on Proof of Citizenship"
..... - How will this affect the Health Center's fiscal structure? Or will it?
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Abbott Schools - Editorial, SL: "Scrutinize Abbott budgets"
..... - Public Education: Bob Braun: "Is public education a people's civic duty?"
..... - Arts District: "Bringing Life to a Factory Graveyard in Orange"
..... - Civic Values - Newark: "Letter: Newark Values"
..... - Mortgages: "Black, Hispanic Homebuyers Pay Higher Interest, Study Finds"
..... - Faith-based Homeownership Programs: "Today, Homeownership Is Next to Godliness"
..... - Solar Energy: "Solar Power Where You Might Not Expect It"
........ - A solar-powered NJ funeral home that earns its owner $10K/year from energy
..... - Station Parking Spaces: "A Bid to Get Parking Passes on a Fast Track"
..... - Immigration: "FAIR Sets Up Front Group 'You Don't Speak for Me'"
..... - Veterans: "Audit finds agency errs in benefits for disabled veterans"
..... - SCC: "Trying to make amends, better work pledged on polluted Trenton schoolyard"
..... - Guns Deter Crime?: "'Freakonomics' shot holes in his data; pro-gun writer turns to lawsuit"
..... - 3rd Party Coming? - LAT: "Building a New Political Party Online, Byte by Byte"
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___________________________________________________________________________
Franklin (Somerset Co.): "Group of Dems in Franklin look to oust chairman in primary"
BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________
Death Threats - NYT: "Newark Gang Threatened Mayor-Elect Booker"
Civic Values - Newark: "Letter: Booker and Newark Values"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
'Aged out' Foster Care Youth: "New Jersey Foster Care Scholarship Program"
Budget: "State budget battle rumbles into home stretch: 5 things to watch"
Essex County: "Essex urged to overhaul Crime Scene Unit to improve conviction rate"
Legislature: "Legislators mulling medical marijuana use, funeral protests ban"
UMDNJ: "Fired UMDNJ dean accused of ethics abuse"
Vonage: "Vonage facing suit over IPO"
Towns:
..... - Montclair: "Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan visits church in Montclair"
..... - Orange: "Arts District: Bringing Life to a Factory Graveyard"
..... - Ridgewood: "Filled With Light, Rebuilt Church Destroyed by Fire Is Dedicated"
..... - Monroe Twp.: "Monroe Jewish congregation honors Chile bus crash victims"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
3rd Party Coming? - LAT: "Building a New Political Party Online, Byte by Byte"
Army vs. State? - LAT: "Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule"
Canada - SL: "Undercover Mounties brought bomb parts to terror suspects"
..... - NYT: "6 Arrested in Canada Raid Attended the Same Mosque"
Haditha Incident - SL: "General vows fair Haditha inquiry"
Iran - SL: "Iran threatens oil disruption if punished"
Jefferson Affair - WP: "For Deals, Jefferson Built Web Of Firms"
Palestine - SL: "Abbas plan is rejected by Hamas"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, Rambusch Studios)
Ground Zero Memorial: "Jersey firm's sculpture honors firefighter who died on 9/11"
Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
Childhood Obesity: "Study: Controlling parents lead kids to obesity"
College Textbooks: "Fewer Textbook Sales, but Rising Revenue"
Health: "Kidney cancer pill's 'giving people hope'"
Lobbying: "How eBay Makes Regulations Disappear"
Lottery: "The store that sold a ticket of gold" -- so maybe you should buy your tickets here?
New Jersey: "The State That Everywhere Else Is Measured By" -- offbeat piece
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
SPORTS LINKS: PHS | Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Relief and Aid Contacts:
Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
Catholic Charities: http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: http://www.uscj.org/
Islamic Relief: http://www.irw.org/
Other Area Contacts: "Indonesia Relief Contacts"
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.
Plainfield 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.
*
