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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

06 - Tue - Vote... Church fire probed... GOP to reorganize... Lecaros killers sentenced...

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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________

Plainfield Today: "VOTE"
Plain Talker: "Local GOP To Reorganize After Primary"

2006 Primary: "Courier Candidate Listing"
Church Fire: "Probe continues in fire that closed city church"
Lecaros Homicide - CN: "Career thugs get 68 years in Piscataway teen's death"
..... - SL: "Plainfield pair get long jail terms in killing"

Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Drugs: "Mexico drug lab linked to heroin deaths in Jersey"
..... - Pensions: "City's Pension Cut Proposal May Set Negotiating Pattern"
..... - Eminent Domain - CN: "Bill aims to impose added protection against eminent domain"
.......... - SL: "Eminent domain reform bill stirs Assembly debate"
.......... - NYT: "New London Takes First Step to Evict in Eminent Domain Case"
..... - Guns/Gunplay: "Gun violence in Hartford sparks plea for cease-fire"
..... - Accessibility: "Holmdel center's doors to open for disabled vets"

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___________________________________________________________________________

Clark: "Plans unveiled to reconfigure Clark traffic circle on Parkway"
Edison - HNT: "Final arguments presented in trial of naked cop"
..... - SL: "Crash trial of nude cop wraps up"
New Brunswick - SL: "Fatal shooting blamed on gang dispute"
..... - HNT: "Shooting suspect held"
Roselle Park: "Roselle Park council tackles wide range of troubles"


BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________

Death Threat - SL: "Newark ups protection for Booker"
..... - NYT: "Threat to Newark's Mayor-Elect Leads to 24-Hour Police Guard"
.......... - The Ledger's Newark campaign blog is here, and the NY Times blog is here


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

Primary Election - SL: "13th District contest tops today's primaries"
..... - NYT: "Senate Race Tops Primary Ballot in New Jersey Today"

Budget: "Corzine holding off on reviewing lawmakers' alternative budget ideas"
Eminent Domain: "Bill aims to impose added protection against eminent domain"
Legislature: "Legislators examining 'fire-safe' cigarettes"
Lobbying: "New rules swell ranks of rookie Trenton lobbyists"
Property Taxes - SL: "Lawmakers plan to start a special session on taxes in July"
..... - CN: "Top lawmakers to unveil plans for tax reforms"
..... - NYT: "Legislators to Ask Corzine for Special Effort on Property Taxes"
UMDNJ - SL: "Governor: Fired dean should quit all his jobs"
..... - NYT: "Dismissed Dean Accused of Breaching Ethics"

Towns:

..... - Newark: "City council no-shows delay Newark budget hearing"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

Scandal Central:
..... - Abramoff - WP: "Safavian Denies Concealing Abramoff Ties"

2006 Elections - SL: "Democrats look for anger to trickle down"
Congress - WP: "Privately Funded Trips Add Up to $50M on Capitol Hill"
..... - Reuters: "Lawmakers reaped millions in free trips"
Immigration - WP: "An Increasingly Deadly Trail"
School Integration - WP: "Justices to Hear Cases of Race-Conscious School Placements"
..... - Bergen Record: "An affirmative action showdown"

OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________

















(Photo, Washington Post)
"Life Goes On in a Town Called -- What?"

Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.

Catholic Church: "Communion Denied to Activists"
Mergers: "Surviving a merger: BASF & Engelhard"

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"

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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 |

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