Since the Green / Moriarty / Sweeney proposal has helped ignite the state budget debate, all State Budget stories will be posted in the Plainfield section for the duration. -- Dan
The BBC has uncovered evidence the GOP targeted Blacks serving in Iraq for disqualification from voting in the 2004 presidential election. See '2004 Election' in Nation/World...
As Archibishop Theodore McCarrick faces retirement, he speaks out on partisanship creeping into the Catholic Church -- in Of Interest...
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Plainfield Pride Film Festival ends with party" -- but you have to go to a film to find out where it is
Plain Talker: "Plaintalker At One Year" -- Happy Birthday, Plaintalker! And many more...
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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney AND State Budget:
..... - SL: Ledger has a large chart for keeping score -- will scan and put up later...
..... - CN: "State's tax dance about to get more complex"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Official Misconduct: "Newark construction official stripped of license"
..... - Guns/Gunplay: "Ex-grid star shot to death after New Brunswick party"
..... - Development: "Compromise sought over South Amboy development plan"
..... - Code Enforcement: "Mayfair getting luxury makeover" -- Code violations used to drive renovation
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___________________________________________________________________________
Bridgewater - NYT: "Hindu Temple's Plans Run Into Resistance"
Elizabeth: "Elizabeth cop's award faces challenge"
Hillside: "Synagogue's gift could save officers' lives"
New Brunswick - SL: "Ex-grid star shot to death after party"
..... - CN: "Hillsboro athlete killed in shooting"
Scotch Plains: "Combing the forests for environmental jewels"
South Amboy: "Compromise sought over waterfront development plan"
Trailside Nature Center: "Bringing the great outdoors inside"
BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________
NYT: "Now if Anything Breaks, It's Cory Booker's"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, June 18, 2006"
Corzine - APP: "Events at BPU, Corrections reflect badly on Corzine"
Menendez / Kean Race: "Kean demands Menendez release transcripts from 1982 trial"
Affordable Housing Obligations: "Meadows towns face requirement of 2500 units"
Attorney General Farber: "Attorney general on the fringes of energy probe"
..... - A tangled web if ever there was one...
'Down the Shore': "Long Beach Island replenishment proposal becoming eroded"
Farming: "The New [Exotic] Face of Farming"
Towns:
(Photo, NY Times)
..... - Bayonne: "In Bayonne, a Shoreline Redefined"
..... - Newark: "Newark construction official stripped of license"
.......... - Housing Authority: "New director earned previous job through care for others"
.......... - The Wight Foundation: "Foundation provides scholarships to boarding schools"
.......... - Devils Arena - Editorial, SL: "A new arena prenuptial"
..... - Maplewood: "Standup comic plans to run in Maplewood"
..... - East Orange: "Mayfair getting luxury makeover" -- Town used code violations to drive renovation
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central: Hookergate - TPM: "DHS hands over Cunningham 'limo letter'"
2004 Election - BBC/Democracy Now: "GOP tactic disqualified Blacks serving in Iraq"
Cheney - Truthout: "Documents May Link Cheney to Halliburton No-Bid Iraq Contract"
Haditha - NYT: "Contradictions Cloud Inquiry Into 24 Iraqi Deaths"
Iran - Analysis, TomGram: "The Tripolar Chessboard"
Iraq - Editorial, Register-Guard [Bend, OR]: "Missing the target"
..... - OpEd, WP: Eugene Robinson: "Stay the Course? What Course?"
..... - Sanctuary: "Methodist congregation offers sanctuary to those who refuse to return to Iraq"
Obama - WP: "Obama's Profile Has Democrats Taking Notice"
Rove - WP: "Fall Elections Are Rove's Next Test"
Social Security - Truthout: "Fiction on the Social Security Trust Fund"
..... - and a link to CEPR's "Defaulting on the SS Bonds: Winners and Losers" [PDF]
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
Coffee Wars: "The Coffee Wars Reach New Jersey; Whole Lotta Beans At Stake"
Gay Marriage: "Westchester Acknowledging Gay Marriage"
Internet: "Idea of a separate, paid Web drives high-tech fight"
Jewish Greenwich, CT: "A Kinder, Gentler, More Kosher Greenwich"
Archbishop McCarrick: "McCarrick fears a political poison seeping into church"
Prison Reform: "Our prisons, ourselves"
Zimmerli Exhibit: "Searing Messages and Imaginative Flair" -- and a link to the museum's page
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.
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.
*
The BBC has uncovered evidence the GOP targeted Blacks serving in Iraq for disqualification from voting in the 2004 presidential election. See '2004 Election' in Nation/World...
As Archibishop Theodore McCarrick faces retirement, he speaks out on partisanship creeping into the Catholic Church -- in Of Interest...
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Plainfield Pride Film Festival ends with party" -- but you have to go to a film to find out where it is
Plain Talker: "Plaintalker At One Year" -- Happy Birthday, Plaintalker! And many more...
_____________________
Green/Moriarty/Sweeney AND State Budget:
..... - SL: Ledger has a large chart for keeping score -- will scan and put up later...
..... - CN: "State's tax dance about to get more complex"
_____________________
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Official Misconduct: "Newark construction official stripped of license"
..... - Guns/Gunplay: "Ex-grid star shot to death after New Brunswick party"
..... - Development: "Compromise sought over South Amboy development plan"
..... - Code Enforcement: "Mayfair getting luxury makeover" -- Code violations used to drive renovation
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___________________________________________________________________________
Bridgewater - NYT: "Hindu Temple's Plans Run Into Resistance"
Elizabeth: "Elizabeth cop's award faces challenge"
Hillside: "Synagogue's gift could save officers' lives"
New Brunswick - SL: "Ex-grid star shot to death after party"
..... - CN: "Hillsboro athlete killed in shooting"
Scotch Plains: "Combing the forests for environmental jewels"
South Amboy: "Compromise sought over waterfront development plan"
Trailside Nature Center: "Bringing the great outdoors inside"
BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________
NYT: "Now if Anything Breaks, It's Cory Booker's"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, June 18, 2006"
Corzine - APP: "Events at BPU, Corrections reflect badly on Corzine"
Menendez / Kean Race: "Kean demands Menendez release transcripts from 1982 trial"
Affordable Housing Obligations: "Meadows towns face requirement of 2500 units"
Attorney General Farber: "Attorney general on the fringes of energy probe"
..... - A tangled web if ever there was one...
'Down the Shore': "Long Beach Island replenishment proposal becoming eroded"
Farming: "The New [Exotic] Face of Farming"
Towns:
(Photo, NY Times)
..... - Bayonne: "In Bayonne, a Shoreline Redefined"
..... - Newark: "Newark construction official stripped of license"
.......... - Housing Authority: "New director earned previous job through care for others"
.......... - The Wight Foundation: "Foundation provides scholarships to boarding schools"
.......... - Devils Arena - Editorial, SL: "A new arena prenuptial"
..... - Maplewood: "Standup comic plans to run in Maplewood"
..... - East Orange: "Mayfair getting luxury makeover" -- Town used code violations to drive renovation
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Scandal Central: Hookergate - TPM: "DHS hands over Cunningham 'limo letter'"
2004 Election - BBC/Democracy Now: "GOP tactic disqualified Blacks serving in Iraq"
Cheney - Truthout: "Documents May Link Cheney to Halliburton No-Bid Iraq Contract"
Haditha - NYT: "Contradictions Cloud Inquiry Into 24 Iraqi Deaths"
Iran - Analysis, TomGram: "The Tripolar Chessboard"
Iraq - Editorial, Register-Guard [Bend, OR]: "Missing the target"
..... - OpEd, WP: Eugene Robinson: "Stay the Course? What Course?"
..... - Sanctuary: "Methodist congregation offers sanctuary to those who refuse to return to Iraq"
Obama - WP: "Obama's Profile Has Democrats Taking Notice"
Rove - WP: "Fall Elections Are Rove's Next Test"
Social Security - Truthout: "Fiction on the Social Security Trust Fund"
..... - and a link to CEPR's "Defaulting on the SS Bonds: Winners and Losers" [PDF]
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
Coffee Wars: "The Coffee Wars Reach New Jersey; Whole Lotta Beans At Stake"
Gay Marriage: "Westchester Acknowledging Gay Marriage"
Internet: "Idea of a separate, paid Web drives high-tech fight"
Jewish Greenwich, CT: "A Kinder, Gentler, More Kosher Greenwich"
Archbishop McCarrick: "McCarrick fears a political poison seeping into church"
Prison Reform: "Our prisons, ourselves"
Zimmerli Exhibit: "Searing Messages and Imaginative Flair" -- and a link to the museum's page
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.
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.
*
