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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

04 - Tue - Celebrate Independence Day!... - McGreevey move... Assault victim critical... Corzine calls Legislative meetinng today...

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I'm back -- Enjoy the Independence Day celebrations today -- See Plainfield Today for details...

I'll play a little catch-up tomorrow with the news.....who knows, we may even have a state budget!

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


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Plainfield Today: "Celebrate Independence Day!"
Plain Talker: "Hearing Wednesday On South Avenue Four-Story"

McGreevey: "McGreevey move cheers Plainfield's gay community"
Liberty Street Assault: "Assault victim still unidentified" -- I arrived home to find a medevac alert in my email from reader JB, no doubt concerning this incident. The victim is in critical condition and had no ID...

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(Sheneman in the Star-Ledger)

Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & State Budget:
..... - SL: "Governor orders special sessions to pass a budget"
.......... - Casinos: "Rebuffed in court, casinos must close at 8 AM Wed. if no budget in place"
..... - CN: "Corzine calls full session of Legislature"
.......... - Editorial: "No dishonor in budget discontent"
.......... - Letter: Freeholder Adrian Mapp: "Green needs to lay off union rhetoric"
NYT: "Corzine Calls Special Joint Session to Resolve Budget Crisis"

Events for this week are here

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or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']



NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

Biz Profile: "Garden State Fireworks, Millington"

Towns:

..... - Newark - SL: "Newark joins task force to reduce killings"
.............. - "Booker looks and listens to workers for new ideas"
.......... - CN: "Task force to focus on Newark violence"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

Bush - SL: James Farmer: "Much at stake in Bush battle with press"
..... - NYT/LAT: Dean Baquet & Bill Keller: "When Do We Publish a Secret?" -- Baquet and Keller are editors, respectively, of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________

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

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DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________

Relief and Aid Contacts:
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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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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 | TNS - The New Standard | TT - Trenton Times |

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