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Today: "Plainfield Public Library - 125th Anniversary Celebration"
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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Art Festival & Library's 125th Celebration today!"
Letter - CN: Rosalie Maimone: "Homophobia not high on priority list"
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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & Budget Fallout:
Poll: "Voters like Corzine's 'bully' tactics, his rating rises as Legislature's drops" -- the Quinnipiac poll shows voters blaming the Dem-controlled Legislature by 3-to-1 for the budget crisis
Rutgers, Academic - SL: "Rutgers hikes tuition and drops courses due to state aid cuts"
..... - CN: "Rutgers raises tuition by 8%, cuts courses"
Rutgers, Sports: "Bleak day for Scarlet Knights: University benches six sports"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Police Contracts, NYC: "A New Tone on Concessions"
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 - SL: "Woman dead, two hurt in Elizabeth shooting"
..... - NYT: "Woman Is Shot and Then Falls From 4th Floor"
Elizabeth - SL: "Rogue ex-trooper gets 24 years"
..... - NYT: "Ex-Trooper Gets 24-Year Sentence, Worked for Drug Gang"
Piscataway - CN: "Court sets new deadline for Halpers to leave land"
..... - SL: "Judge implores farm family to move peacefully off land"
Piscataway: "Indian cricket players to coach children at camp"
Scotch Plains: "Lucy Liu films latest movie in Scotch Plains"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Transition: "63 more firings bring Booker's total to 156"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: -- See State Budget fallout stories under the Plainfield section
Menendez: "Menendez fears AG flap may hurt him"
Property Rehab Scam: "Man gets prison for bilking jazzman Wynton Marsalis"
Sales Tax: "The day dawns with sales tax increase"
Towns: Newark: "Immigrant taxi driver killed in Newark"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, Washington Post)
Plamegate - WP: "Couple Reiterate Claims They Were Punished"
Abramoff - WP: "Abramoff Lobbying of White House Probed"
Border Control - WP: "Bribery At Border Worries Officials"
Detainees - WP: "Policy Rewrite Reveals Rift in Administration"
Lobbyists - NYT: "New House Majority Leader Keeps Old Ties to Lobbyists"
NAACP - NYT: "Bush, in a Shift, May Speak at N.A.A.C.P. Convention"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Collectors: "These people may be salt (and pepper) of the earth"
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"
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 | TNS - The New Standard | TT - Trenton Times |
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