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Tonight: City Council Agenda-setting session, 7:30 PM, City Hall Library
Wednesday: City Council Business meeting AND Board of Ed meeting
Thursday: PMUA Board, 6:00 PM, PMUA Offices, 127 Roosevelt Avenue
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "TW3: Jul 9 - 16, 2006: News digest of the past week"
Plain Talker: "A Hot Week For Meetings" -- two each for Council, Board of Ed
Cop & Teacher Salaries & Benefits - a 6-part series by the Bergen Record:
..... - Monday: "Unions drive a hard bargain"
..... - Sunday: "Can N.J. afford the rising cost of teachers and cops?"
___________________________________________
Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & Budget Fallout:
Letter, CN: Jerry Green: "Budget initiative not against unions"
Haste Makes Waste?: "Lawmakers hope for no N.J. budget hangovers"
___________________________________________
Connections? Food For Thought
(Photo, NY Times)
..... - Voter Turnout: "Arizona Ballot Could Become Lottery Ticket"
..... - State Pensions: "Sharpe James to cost taxpayers $323,654 a year" -- The city refused the info under an OPRA request, the Ledger had to sue to get it
Events for this week are here
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. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
. |..Click HERE to get listing form..|
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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___________________________________________________________________________
Piscataway: "Halpers noncommittal about noon departure deadline"
Scotch Plains: "Iraq vet, Scotch Plains native recounts two-month detention in Sierra Leone"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, NY Times)
Light Rail - NYT: "Rail Spur Brings Downtown Newark a Taste of Its Past"
Crime - SL: "City's calm shaken by 3 homicides in 1 night"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: See State Budget stories under Plainfield section
Menendez/Kean Race - Record: "Menendez's tack: Keep state issues at a distance"
..... - CN: "Menendez loses edge over Kean in new poll"
Heating Oil: "Heating oil prices may follow climb at the gas pump"
Towns:
..... - Paterson - SL: "Surrender ends hostage drama"
.......... - NYT: "A Hostage Standoff Ended After a Mother’s Appeal"
..... - Sparta: "A twist in plot gives bookstore a new chapter"
..... - Cherry Hill: "Cherry Hill's burgeoning downtown faces hurdles"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Map, WashPost and Jerusalem Post.
Click to enlarge.)
Mideast Crisis - WP: "G-8 Leaders Work Out Plan For End to Mideast Crisis"
..... - NYT: "Israel and Hezbollah Continue Attacks"
Dems - WP: "A New Alliance Of Democrats Spreads Funding"
G-8 Summit [Breaking] - WP: "Microphone Captures Bush's Unscripted Comments at G-8"
Iraq - Analysis, SL: John Farmer: "For Iraq's future, check Lebanon's past"
Medicare - NYT: "Bush Administration Plans Medicare Changes"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Map, NY Times - Click to enlarge.)
Gay Resorts: "Gay Getaways: The New Wave"
AIDS at 25: "Search for vaccine elusive"
Immigration: "Not to Forget: The Spanish settled here first"
Israel Lobby - WP Mag: "A Beautiful Friendship?"
Web: "Web sites give mourners an outlet to cope with death"
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 |
(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.
*
Tonight: City Council Agenda-setting session, 7:30 PM, City Hall Library
Wednesday: City Council Business meeting AND Board of Ed meeting
Thursday: PMUA Board, 6:00 PM, PMUA Offices, 127 Roosevelt Avenue
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "TW3: Jul 9 - 16, 2006: News digest of the past week"
Plain Talker: "A Hot Week For Meetings" -- two each for Council, Board of Ed
Cop & Teacher Salaries & Benefits - a 6-part series by the Bergen Record:
..... - Monday: "Unions drive a hard bargain"
..... - Sunday: "Can N.J. afford the rising cost of teachers and cops?"
___________________________________________
Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & Budget Fallout:
Letter, CN: Jerry Green: "Budget initiative not against unions"
Haste Makes Waste?: "Lawmakers hope for no N.J. budget hangovers"
___________________________________________
Connections? Food For Thought
(Photo, NY Times)
..... - Voter Turnout: "Arizona Ballot Could Become Lottery Ticket"
..... - State Pensions: "Sharpe James to cost taxpayers $323,654 a year" -- The city refused the info under an OPRA request, the Ledger had to sue to get it
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___________________________________________________________________________
Piscataway: "Halpers noncommittal about noon departure deadline"
Scotch Plains: "Iraq vet, Scotch Plains native recounts two-month detention in Sierra Leone"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, NY Times)
Light Rail - NYT: "Rail Spur Brings Downtown Newark a Taste of Its Past"
Crime - SL: "City's calm shaken by 3 homicides in 1 night"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: See State Budget stories under Plainfield section
Menendez/Kean Race - Record: "Menendez's tack: Keep state issues at a distance"
..... - CN: "Menendez loses edge over Kean in new poll"
Heating Oil: "Heating oil prices may follow climb at the gas pump"
Towns:
..... - Paterson - SL: "Surrender ends hostage drama"
.......... - NYT: "A Hostage Standoff Ended After a Mother’s Appeal"
..... - Sparta: "A twist in plot gives bookstore a new chapter"
..... - Cherry Hill: "Cherry Hill's burgeoning downtown faces hurdles"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Map, WashPost and Jerusalem Post.
Click to enlarge.)
Mideast Crisis - WP: "G-8 Leaders Work Out Plan For End to Mideast Crisis"
..... - NYT: "Israel and Hezbollah Continue Attacks"
Dems - WP: "A New Alliance Of Democrats Spreads Funding"
G-8 Summit [Breaking] - WP: "Microphone Captures Bush's Unscripted Comments at G-8"
Iraq - Analysis, SL: John Farmer: "For Iraq's future, check Lebanon's past"
Medicare - NYT: "Bush Administration Plans Medicare Changes"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Map, NY Times - Click to enlarge.)
Gay Resorts: "Gay Getaways: The New Wave"
AIDS at 25: "Search for vaccine elusive"
Immigration: "Not to Forget: The Spanish settled here first"
Israel Lobby - WP Mag: "A Beautiful Friendship?"
Web: "Web sites give mourners an outlet to cope with death"
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 |
(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.
*
