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Monday, June 12, 2006

12 - Mon - TW3 - Guns & gunplay... The missing $41,000... Plainfield Pride... PHC... Green vs. state workers...

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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________

Plainfield Today: "TW3: Jun 5 - June 11, 2006"
Guns & gunplay... the missing $41,000... Plainfield Health Center on a roll?... Green vs. state workers...


Crime [last item]: "Teenager faces weapons charge"
Pride Picnic: "Plainfield pride"

Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Immigrants: "Danbury Mayor Cuts the Noise on Immigration"
..... - Medicaid: "States' Changes Reshape Medicaid"
..... - Montclair: "Teens take a stand to aid Rwanda genocide survivors"

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___________________________________________________________________________

New Brunswick: "Soapbox derby roars into their hearts"
Roselle: "Hunt for fatal hit-and-run driver goes on as grieving parents seek closure"


BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________

Council: "Booker hopes council shares vision"
Council Runoff - AP: "Booker faces first challenge in upcoming runoff election"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

Menendez: "Menendez stumps for bill on enacting 9/11 reforms"

Afghanistan: Bob Braun: "Twin NJ surgeon brothers help Afghanistan's wounded"
Auto Insurance: "Trenton to take up auto insurance changes"
Body Parts Scandal: "Grisly details emerge over corpse-harvesting scandal"
Budget: "Property tax relief is eye of Corzine's budget storm"
Education: "Education department anxious; Long transition a drag on staff and reforms"
Gypsy Moths: "Gypsy moths wrecking huge areas of forests"
Immigration: "State immigration group finds fault with national policy"
Legislature: "Legislators to discuss car insurance, eminent domain"
Medical Board: "Medical board to review who can declare when brain death occurs"
Pay-to-Play: "Contractors slash political donations"
Xanadu: "Bergen County asks tax bonanza from Xanadu"

Towns:

..... - Newark: "Ironbound flaunts Portuguese flair with Portuguese Day parade"
.......... - The Ledger's Newark campaign blog is here, and the NY Times blog is here
..... - Montclair: "Teens take a stand to aid Rwanda genocide survivors"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

Guantánamo - SL: "Guantánamo gets torrent of criticism"
Jersey Connection - SL: "Jersey attorney declares U.S. spirit is on trial"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________

(Photo, New York Times - click to enlarge - it's very wide and this is only three of the sections)
9/11 Firefighters Memorial: "A Hands-On Tribute to the Pain and Valor of 9/11"
The bronze memorial was designed, fabricated and installed by the Rambusch Studios of Jersey City


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

Art Wars: "Teacher is suspended over 'offensive' mural"
Flag Display: "Why Some Americans Can't Fly the Flag"
Gas Stations: "Gas station hints at future of filling up -- dozens of options"
Verizon: "Verizon ties future growth to a slim, optical thread"

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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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 |

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