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2:00 PM today: Judge Lyons, 3rd Fl, Union County Courthouse, hearing on challenge to Sharon Robinson-Briggs' qualification to serve
6:30 PM today: Washington School Cafetorium, forum on school uniforms
7:00 PM today: City Hall Library - Zoning Board hears South Avenue condo proposal.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Hanging out -- and over -- in Plainfield
Plainfield Today: "Signs of the times"
Plain Talker: "Zoning Board Continues South Avenue Hearing Tonight"
Crime: "2004 Murder: At brother's murder trial, man tells of bloody night"
Route 78 Alert: "Route 78 Indigestion"
School Uniforms Forum [next to last item]: "Uniform discussion at forum tonight"
Shiloh Court Groundbreaking [last item]: "Single-family houses a major development"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Development: "Blight, Like Beauty, Can Be in the Eye of the Beholder"
..... - Gangs, Bloods - SL: "State roundup nets 41 reputed gangsters"
.......... - CN: "More than 60 charged in statewide gang sweep"
.......... - NYT: "N.J. Police Arrest More Than 60 in Gang Crackdown"
..... - Development: "Homes for Those Displaced by Renewal"
..... - Development: "New Condos in Old Industrial Spaces"
..... - Mortgage Creativity: "Re-Refinancing, and Putting Off Mortgage Pain"
..... - Crime-Fighting Mayor: "Miss. Mayor's Anti-Crime Tactics Draw Fire"
..... - Redevelopment Plans: "Bloomfield OKs updated study to jump-start redevelopment"
Events for this week are here
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. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
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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___________________________________________________________________________
Clark: "Clark owes $10,000 for late sewer fees"
Edison: "Another Edison cop is off the force; pleads guilty to waving handgun"
Elizabeth: "Firefighters in Elizabeth press for more hires"
Kenilworth: "Resident says politics spurred duplex ban"
Roselle Park: "Council votes to let residents talk on any issue, but with time limit"
South Plainfield: "Severed hand probe widens"
Woodbridge: "State Sen. Vitale selected as interim Woodbridge mayor"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
James Era Payday: "Newark's parting gift to officials: $658,187"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine - Editorial, CN: "Corzine's pension plan deserves shot"
AG Zulima Farber - SL: Fran Wood: "Bad press isn't Zulima Farber's big problem"
..... - Editorial, CN: "If Farber won't go, give her a push"
Board of Public Utilities - SL: "State report goes after utility board program"
..... - CN: "Audit claims misuse of $80M by BPU"
Campaign Finances: "Democrats enjoy major cash advantage over Republicans"
Job Incentives: "Report: AAA gave states a bum steer" -- and the NJPP report "Mapping the Route to Dollars"
Tax Reform: "Bickering begins ahead of tax-reform hearings"
UMDNJ - SL: "UMDNJ puts cancer center on hold, plans layoffs"
..... - NYT: "Layoffs Are Announced at Troubled New Jersey Hospital"
Towns:
..... - Jersey City: "Echoing New York's Upper West Side"
..... - East Brunswick: "School coach can kneel while players pray"
..... - Florham Park: "Florham Park taxes to soar 24% on average"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, Washington Post)
2006 Elections - Voting Machines, WP: "Tech Trouble in the Voting Booth"
Illegal Immigration - OpEd, NYT: Dukakis & Mitchell: "Raise Wages, Not Walls"
Iraq - WP: "Bush to Add Troops in Baghdad, Citing 'Terrible' Sectarian Strife"
Middle East - Analysis, WP: "In Lebanon's Crisis, a Chance for U.S. to Broaden the Stakes"
..... - SL: "Moderate Arabs fear wider war in Mideast"
'Parent' Ruling: "Victory for an absentee father in daughter's estate"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, Ann Garder)
Sand Dune Sounds: "Secrets of the Singing Sand Dunes" -- so, Sigmund Romberg was onto something?
British Parliamentary Behavior: "What’s Mannerly, Rowdy and Jabs Blair? Question Time"
Exhibit: "Celebrating Puzzles, in Indiana" -- including this wild karakuri
Preservation: "Algiers: The Crumbling of the Casbah"
Real Estate - NJ: "Beached sales: Once-blistering beachfront sales have slowed to pace of a lazy summer day"
Real Estate - National, CSM: "Housing market slowdown rippling across the economy"
Review - NYT: "Faith, Reason, God and Other Imponderables: 7 Books"
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.
*
2:00 PM today: Judge Lyons, 3rd Fl, Union County Courthouse, hearing on challenge to Sharon Robinson-Briggs' qualification to serve
6:30 PM today: Washington School Cafetorium, forum on school uniforms
7:00 PM today: City Hall Library - Zoning Board hears South Avenue condo proposal.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Hanging out -- and over -- in Plainfield
Plainfield Today: "Signs of the times"
Plain Talker: "Zoning Board Continues South Avenue Hearing Tonight"
Crime: "2004 Murder: At brother's murder trial, man tells of bloody night"
Route 78 Alert: "Route 78 Indigestion"
School Uniforms Forum [next to last item]: "Uniform discussion at forum tonight"
Shiloh Court Groundbreaking [last item]: "Single-family houses a major development"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Development: "Blight, Like Beauty, Can Be in the Eye of the Beholder"
..... - Gangs, Bloods - SL: "State roundup nets 41 reputed gangsters"
.......... - CN: "More than 60 charged in statewide gang sweep"
.......... - NYT: "N.J. Police Arrest More Than 60 in Gang Crackdown"
..... - Development: "Homes for Those Displaced by Renewal"
..... - Development: "New Condos in Old Industrial Spaces"
..... - Mortgage Creativity: "Re-Refinancing, and Putting Off Mortgage Pain"
..... - Crime-Fighting Mayor: "Miss. Mayor's Anti-Crime Tactics Draw Fire"
..... - Redevelopment Plans: "Bloomfield OKs updated study to jump-start redevelopment"
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___________________________________________________________________________
Clark: "Clark owes $10,000 for late sewer fees"
Edison: "Another Edison cop is off the force; pleads guilty to waving handgun"
Elizabeth: "Firefighters in Elizabeth press for more hires"
Kenilworth: "Resident says politics spurred duplex ban"
Roselle Park: "Council votes to let residents talk on any issue, but with time limit"
South Plainfield: "Severed hand probe widens"
Woodbridge: "State Sen. Vitale selected as interim Woodbridge mayor"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
James Era Payday: "Newark's parting gift to officials: $658,187"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine - Editorial, CN: "Corzine's pension plan deserves shot"
AG Zulima Farber - SL: Fran Wood: "Bad press isn't Zulima Farber's big problem"
..... - Editorial, CN: "If Farber won't go, give her a push"
Board of Public Utilities - SL: "State report goes after utility board program"
..... - CN: "Audit claims misuse of $80M by BPU"
Campaign Finances: "Democrats enjoy major cash advantage over Republicans"
Job Incentives: "Report: AAA gave states a bum steer" -- and the NJPP report "Mapping the Route to Dollars"
Tax Reform: "Bickering begins ahead of tax-reform hearings"
UMDNJ - SL: "UMDNJ puts cancer center on hold, plans layoffs"
..... - NYT: "Layoffs Are Announced at Troubled New Jersey Hospital"
Towns:
..... - Jersey City: "Echoing New York's Upper West Side"
..... - East Brunswick: "School coach can kneel while players pray"
..... - Florham Park: "Florham Park taxes to soar 24% on average"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, Washington Post)
2006 Elections - Voting Machines, WP: "Tech Trouble in the Voting Booth"
Illegal Immigration - OpEd, NYT: Dukakis & Mitchell: "Raise Wages, Not Walls"
Iraq - WP: "Bush to Add Troops in Baghdad, Citing 'Terrible' Sectarian Strife"
Middle East - Analysis, WP: "In Lebanon's Crisis, a Chance for U.S. to Broaden the Stakes"
..... - SL: "Moderate Arabs fear wider war in Mideast"
'Parent' Ruling: "Victory for an absentee father in daughter's estate"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, Ann Garder)
Sand Dune Sounds: "Secrets of the Singing Sand Dunes" -- so, Sigmund Romberg was onto something?
British Parliamentary Behavior: "What’s Mannerly, Rowdy and Jabs Blair? Question Time"
Exhibit: "Celebrating Puzzles, in Indiana" -- including this wild karakuri
Preservation: "Algiers: The Crumbling of the Casbah"
Real Estate - NJ: "Beached sales: Once-blistering beachfront sales have slowed to pace of a lazy summer day"
Real Estate - National, CSM: "Housing market slowdown rippling across the economy"
Review - NYT: "Faith, Reason, God and Other Imponderables: 7 Books"
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.
*
