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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

12 - Wed - PT on griddle over post?... Seniors hear $15M proposal... Paving alert... Library's 125th...

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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________










Plainfield Today: "PT on griddle over 'death threats' post?"
Plain Talker: "Seniors Hear $15 Million Center, Condo Proposal"

Public Library: "Library celebrating 125th anniversary this weekend"
Domestic Violence: "Program for domestic abuse victims is expanding" -- hoping to come to Plainfield?... Thought El Centro was fulfilling a grant Plainfield PD had in this regard...Hmmmmm.....
Red Cross: "Red Cross to discuss programs for future"
Road Work: "It's time for annual delays from repaving" -- In Plainfield, East 7th, from Roosevelt to Terrill is under way now

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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & State Budget:
..... - Pay-to-play: Tom Moran: "Corzine sees 'pay to play' can apply to budgets, too"
..... - 'Christmas Tree' Items: Fran Wood: "'Christmas tree' is not just a grab bag"
..... - Editorial, CN: "Restoring worker pay the wrong response"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Development: "Developer charges West Orange with violating fair proposal process"

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___________________________________________________________________________

Elizabeth: "Man sought in shots fired at 2 cops"
Piscataway - CN: "Halpers stand firm, refuse to leave farm"
..... - SL: "Despite a court order, Halpers remain on farm"
Sayreville: "Toxin found in drinking water in Sayreville"


BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________

Interview: Fran Wood: "Booker stumbles a bit but it's early yet"

Council: "Newark council to defer action on deals, overhaul bid process"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

Corzine - Tax Reform - SL: "Corzine lays out agenda on property tax reform"
.......... - CN: "Governor's next fight: property tax reform"
..... - Cabinet: "Acting chiefs get education, corrections posts"
..... - Budget: "Budget 101: State erases Princeton aid"
..... - DYFS - SL: "Advocates cheer new state child aid agency"
.......... - NYT: "Corzine Makes Child Welfare a Cabinet Department"

1st Amendment Rights: "Newark police fire two for Web criticisms" -- Despite the oddly uninformative headline, this is an important story about the First Amendment rights of public employees to criticize their superiors -- including anonymously.
Dwek Affair: "FBI and IRS agents grab records at Deal Yeshiva"

Towns:

..... - Paterson - SL: "Probers say 6 cops tipped drug suspects about raids"
.......... - NYT: "Six Police Officers Charged With Protecting a Drug Ring"
..... - Tenafly: "Tenafly Ex-Councilman Gets Probation for Heroin Possession"
..... - Middletown: "Middletown school chief in hot seat over his job perks"
..... - Jersey City: "PATH riders to face anti-terror screening beginning today"
..... - Parsippany: "Police chief's $469K payout slammed"
..... - West Orange: "Developer charges township with violating fair proposal process"


Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

Scandal Central:

..... - Plamegate - NYT: "Novak Told Prosecutor His Sources in Leak Case"
.......... - WP: "Novak Says He Named 3 Sources in Leak Case"

GI Bill - Cox News: "War veterans denied GI Bill benefits"
Gitmo Detainees - SL: "U.S. acknowledges rights of detainees under Geneva pact"
Online Gambling: "Online-bet crackdown advances to Senate"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________

Author Interview: Robert Scheer: "Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton- and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush"

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

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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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 | TNS - The New Standard | TT - Trenton Times |

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