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Posting problems got sorted out late yesterday-- so two posts for PT.
Befitting the importance and timeliness of the subject, the Ledger has massive charts and an OpEd on tax reform today... It's a keeper, but ONLY in the print edition.
Sunday begins a new, weeklong celebration of National Night Out -- check out the complete calendar.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "HITS: Heard in the street" --Green, Moriarty & Sweeney break up?... Pallone a hot ticket?... Mapp targeted?..." plus yesterday's (technically delayed) post on South Avenue condos -- "Development Puzzle: First pieces on table"
Charter Challenge: "Residency lawsuit vs. mayor is tossed"
Crime - CN: "Man found guilty in wife's 2004 murder"
..... - SL: "Plainfield man found guilty in his wife's 2004 murder"
Fire: "One person injured in West 2nd Street house blaze"
Raritan Valley Coalition [last item]: "Proposed tunnel is topic of rail group"
Restaurant Review: "Cousin's serves up Caribbean fare in city"
School Violence - SL: "By the numbers, schools show a sharp drop in violence"
..... - CN: "School violence drops statewide"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Development: "Landmark hotel sold at auction for luxury condos" -- as in Park Hotel?
..... - Gangs - Editorial, SL: "Ganging up on street gangs"
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___________________________________________________________________________
Bridgewater: "Vandals firebomb Bridgewater home"
Elizabeth: "SCC to pay Trinitas back rent on facility once destined to become high school"
New Brunswick: "Robert Wood nurses reject pact over health care"
Somerville: "Alcohol-free nightclub for teenagers proposed"
Summit: "Summit police seek public comments"
Union Twp.: "Union officials expect no cutbacks in DARE program"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Symphony Hall: "Booker names acting director of Symphony Hall"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________
Property Tax Reform:
(Chart, NY Times. Click to enlarge.)
..... - SL: "Governor's proposals today stress link between property taxes and budget woes"
..... - Courier Post: "S.J. pair renew drive -- sans Green -- to reduce benefits for state workers"
..... - CN: "For now, N.J. to see property tax reform talk, little action"
..... - NYT: "New Jersey Lawmakers to Tackle Rising Property Taxes"
___________________________________
Budget: "Republican attorney: Budget stuffed with pork"
Courts:
..... - Utilities' Liability: "Ruling stops insurers from recovering money paid to policyholders"
..... - Prisoner Self-Defense: "Ruling boosts inmates' rights to self-defense"
Double-dipping - Editorial, SL: "Vitale: Yet another double-dipper?"
Health Insurance: "N.J. mother fights health plan's policy on anorexia"
Hudson River Tunnel: "Port Authority authorizes $1B for second trans-Hudson tunnel"
Seton Hall Fire Case: "49 counts dropped against suspects in Seton Hall fire"
UMDNJ: "After cuts, state tells UMDNJ: No ad blitz"
Towns:
..... - Riverside: "Town Battling Illegal Immigration Is Emptier Now"
..... - Montclair: "Hospital taps Kentucky firm to take over"
..... - Princeton: "Eating club at Princeton loses tax case"
..... - Montclair: "Firm accused of bogus DNA test"
..... - Jersey City: "Jersey City residents take issue with design for 9/11 memorial"
..... - East Orange: "Landmark hotel sold at auction for luxury condos"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Cigarettes - WP: "Lautenberg Labels Senate a Cigarette Discount House"
Foreign Policy - NYT: "Rice on the Defensive After Rome Summit"
Lobbying - WP: "Congress to Adopt Scaled-Down Rules on Lobbying" -- Oh, those tigers, those PAPER tigers!
..... - "Wife, Friend Tie Congressman to Consulting Firm" -- let's not forget to mention he's chair of the Government REFORM Committee!
Middle East - NYT: "Tide of Arab Opinion Turns to Support for Hezbollah"
..... - SL: "Israel lets army call up 30,000 reservists; Cabinet resists expansion of fighting"
United Nations - Reuters: "Bolton seeks U.N. job full-time, but Democrats vow opposition"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Thou shalt forgive?: "A Pastor Who Plagiarized Finds a Congregation Willing to Forgive"
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.
*
Posting problems got sorted out late yesterday-- so two posts for PT.
Befitting the importance and timeliness of the subject, the Ledger has massive charts and an OpEd on tax reform today... It's a keeper, but ONLY in the print edition.
Sunday begins a new, weeklong celebration of National Night Out -- check out the complete calendar.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "HITS: Heard in the street" --Green, Moriarty & Sweeney break up?... Pallone a hot ticket?... Mapp targeted?..." plus yesterday's (technically delayed) post on South Avenue condos -- "Development Puzzle: First pieces on table"
Charter Challenge: "Residency lawsuit vs. mayor is tossed"
Crime - CN: "Man found guilty in wife's 2004 murder"
..... - SL: "Plainfield man found guilty in his wife's 2004 murder"
Fire: "One person injured in West 2nd Street house blaze"
Raritan Valley Coalition [last item]: "Proposed tunnel is topic of rail group"
Restaurant Review: "Cousin's serves up Caribbean fare in city"
School Violence - SL: "By the numbers, schools show a sharp drop in violence"
..... - CN: "School violence drops statewide"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Development: "Landmark hotel sold at auction for luxury condos" -- as in Park Hotel?
..... - Gangs - Editorial, SL: "Ganging up on street gangs"
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___________________________________________________________________________
Bridgewater: "Vandals firebomb Bridgewater home"
Elizabeth: "SCC to pay Trinitas back rent on facility once destined to become high school"
New Brunswick: "Robert Wood nurses reject pact over health care"
Somerville: "Alcohol-free nightclub for teenagers proposed"
Summit: "Summit police seek public comments"
Union Twp.: "Union officials expect no cutbacks in DARE program"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Symphony Hall: "Booker names acting director of Symphony Hall"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________
Property Tax Reform:
(Chart, NY Times. Click to enlarge.)
..... - SL: "Governor's proposals today stress link between property taxes and budget woes"
..... - Courier Post: "S.J. pair renew drive -- sans Green -- to reduce benefits for state workers"
..... - CN: "For now, N.J. to see property tax reform talk, little action"
..... - NYT: "New Jersey Lawmakers to Tackle Rising Property Taxes"
___________________________________
Budget: "Republican attorney: Budget stuffed with pork"
Courts:
..... - Utilities' Liability: "Ruling stops insurers from recovering money paid to policyholders"
..... - Prisoner Self-Defense: "Ruling boosts inmates' rights to self-defense"
Double-dipping - Editorial, SL: "Vitale: Yet another double-dipper?"
Health Insurance: "N.J. mother fights health plan's policy on anorexia"
Hudson River Tunnel: "Port Authority authorizes $1B for second trans-Hudson tunnel"
Seton Hall Fire Case: "49 counts dropped against suspects in Seton Hall fire"
UMDNJ: "After cuts, state tells UMDNJ: No ad blitz"
Towns:
..... - Riverside: "Town Battling Illegal Immigration Is Emptier Now"
..... - Montclair: "Hospital taps Kentucky firm to take over"
..... - Princeton: "Eating club at Princeton loses tax case"
..... - Montclair: "Firm accused of bogus DNA test"
..... - Jersey City: "Jersey City residents take issue with design for 9/11 memorial"
..... - East Orange: "Landmark hotel sold at auction for luxury condos"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Cigarettes - WP: "Lautenberg Labels Senate a Cigarette Discount House"
Foreign Policy - NYT: "Rice on the Defensive After Rome Summit"
Lobbying - WP: "Congress to Adopt Scaled-Down Rules on Lobbying" -- Oh, those tigers, those PAPER tigers!
..... - "Wife, Friend Tie Congressman to Consulting Firm" -- let's not forget to mention he's chair of the Government REFORM Committee!
Middle East - NYT: "Tide of Arab Opinion Turns to Support for Hezbollah"
..... - SL: "Israel lets army call up 30,000 reservists; Cabinet resists expansion of fighting"
United Nations - Reuters: "Bolton seeks U.N. job full-time, but Democrats vow opposition"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Thou shalt forgive?: "A Pastor Who Plagiarized Finds a Congregation Willing to Forgive"
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.
*
