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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plain Talker: "Remembering Ray Blanco"
Obituary - SL: "Ray Blanco, popular activist, politician and producer"
Obituary - CN: "Plainfield's Ray Blanco dies at 50"
Plainfield Today: "National Night Out weeklong celebration begins today"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Flood Insurance: "Flood Insurance Often Insufficient"
..... - Gunplay: "3 men charged in 2 unrelated slayings" -- Using guns to settle grudges...
..... - Athletic Field Maintenance: "Suburbia's game within a game: Finding time for care"
..... - Property Violations: "Tenant's gripe with landlord: Too many violations"
..... - Crime Fighting Tool: "Bail Source Hearings: Where does the money come from?"
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___________________________________________________________________________
7th Congressional District: "Democrats see a possibility for Stender in 7th District"
Elizabeth: "Students color seniors' world"
Scotch Plains: "In Scotch Plains, fields of dreams not fields of green"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Newark Housing Authority: "Newark Housing Authority layoffs of up to 200 loom"
Sharpe James - NYT: "Newark Ex-Mayor’s Deals Stir Questions"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, July 30, 2006"
Menendez/Kean Race: "Filling in the gaps in Menendez's biography"
..... - "In the Polls, a Seesaw With Little Explanation"
______________________________________
Property Tax Reform:
OpEd, SL: John Farmer: "The property tax spiral"
Analysis - SL: "Why some low property tax bills are no bargain"
..... - "Taxes driving people out of Jersey"
Editorial, SL: "Time's a wastin' on property tax relief"
Editorial, CN: "Nice speech on reform, but now's the hard part"
Analysis - CN: "Corzine not shying away from tax reform plan"
______________________________________
AG Zulima Farber - Gannett: Bob Ingle: "Farber should step down"
Body Parts Scandal: "Cremetoria come under scrutiny in body-parts probe"
Development - Boardwalk Amusement Parks: "Staple of Jersey Shore Headed Toward Oblivion?"
Gas Pipelines: "Maze of underground lines raises the risk of gas explosions" and "Five blasts"
Highways: "N.J.'s tired highways await a facial, then more beatings"
Legislature - 'Christmas Tree' grants: "Last-minute grants add $350M to state budget"
State Pension Funds Management - OpEd, SL: Fran Wood: "Are we hedging our bets?"
Towns:
..... - Atlantic City: "'Future Legends' baseball league honors Black legend Pop Lloyd"
..... - East Orange: "Long-awaited transformation set to begin on Upsala College site"
..... - Irvington: "Tenant's gripe with landlord: Too many violations"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
2006 Elections - WP: "Lieberman's Eroding Base"
Iraq War - Popular Support - NYT: "Partisan Divide on Iraq Exceeds Split on Vietnam"
..... - Pat Tillman case, Truthdig: "Playing the Atheism Card Against Pat Tillman’s Family"
..... - Killing Detainees - NYT: "Sergeant Tells of Plot to Kill Iraqi Detainees"
..... - Reconstruction - NYT: "Audit Finds U.S. Hid Cost of Iraq Projects"
Middle East - Analysis - WP: "Returning to Old Approach, U.S. Faces Risky Path Ahead"
..... - Arms Sales - Reuters: "US Plans $4.6 Billion in Mideast Arms Sales"
..... - Palestinian Christians - SL: "In land of Jesus, [Palestinian] Christians struggle"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, NY Times)
Evangelical Revolt Brewing: "Disowning Conservative Politics Is Costly for an Evangelical Pastor" -- an 'emerging church' movement is questioning ties with GOP, militarism and America as 'a Christian nation.'
Exhibit - Outdoor Sculpture and Kinetic Art: "Semi-Scandalous Outdoors, Passé Indoors"
Mel Gibson Anti-Semitic Tirade: "Gibson Sorry for Conduct During DUI Arrest"
Golf, Renegade: "The Untucked Country Club" -- former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin hails from Perth Amboy
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.
Plainfield 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.
*
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plain Talker: "Remembering Ray Blanco"
Obituary - SL: "Ray Blanco, popular activist, politician and producer"
Obituary - CN: "Plainfield's Ray Blanco dies at 50"
Plainfield Today: "National Night Out weeklong celebration begins today"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Flood Insurance: "Flood Insurance Often Insufficient"
..... - Gunplay: "3 men charged in 2 unrelated slayings" -- Using guns to settle grudges...
..... - Athletic Field Maintenance: "Suburbia's game within a game: Finding time for care"
..... - Property Violations: "Tenant's gripe with landlord: Too many violations"
..... - Crime Fighting Tool: "Bail Source Hearings: Where does the money come from?"
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___________________________________________________________________________
7th Congressional District: "Democrats see a possibility for Stender in 7th District"
Elizabeth: "Students color seniors' world"
Scotch Plains: "In Scotch Plains, fields of dreams not fields of green"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Newark Housing Authority: "Newark Housing Authority layoffs of up to 200 loom"
Sharpe James - NYT: "Newark Ex-Mayor’s Deals Stir Questions"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, July 30, 2006"
Menendez/Kean Race: "Filling in the gaps in Menendez's biography"
..... - "In the Polls, a Seesaw With Little Explanation"
______________________________________
Property Tax Reform:
OpEd, SL: John Farmer: "The property tax spiral"
Analysis - SL: "Why some low property tax bills are no bargain"
..... - "Taxes driving people out of Jersey"
Editorial, SL: "Time's a wastin' on property tax relief"
Editorial, CN: "Nice speech on reform, but now's the hard part"
Analysis - CN: "Corzine not shying away from tax reform plan"
______________________________________
AG Zulima Farber - Gannett: Bob Ingle: "Farber should step down"
Body Parts Scandal: "Cremetoria come under scrutiny in body-parts probe"
Development - Boardwalk Amusement Parks: "Staple of Jersey Shore Headed Toward Oblivion?"
Gas Pipelines: "Maze of underground lines raises the risk of gas explosions" and "Five blasts"
Highways: "N.J.'s tired highways await a facial, then more beatings"
Legislature - 'Christmas Tree' grants: "Last-minute grants add $350M to state budget"
State Pension Funds Management - OpEd, SL: Fran Wood: "Are we hedging our bets?"
Towns:
..... - Atlantic City: "'Future Legends' baseball league honors Black legend Pop Lloyd"
..... - East Orange: "Long-awaited transformation set to begin on Upsala College site"
..... - Irvington: "Tenant's gripe with landlord: Too many violations"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
2006 Elections - WP: "Lieberman's Eroding Base"
Iraq War - Popular Support - NYT: "Partisan Divide on Iraq Exceeds Split on Vietnam"
..... - Pat Tillman case, Truthdig: "Playing the Atheism Card Against Pat Tillman’s Family"
..... - Killing Detainees - NYT: "Sergeant Tells of Plot to Kill Iraqi Detainees"
..... - Reconstruction - NYT: "Audit Finds U.S. Hid Cost of Iraq Projects"
Middle East - Analysis - WP: "Returning to Old Approach, U.S. Faces Risky Path Ahead"
..... - Arms Sales - Reuters: "US Plans $4.6 Billion in Mideast Arms Sales"
..... - Palestinian Christians - SL: "In land of Jesus, [Palestinian] Christians struggle"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, NY Times)
Evangelical Revolt Brewing: "Disowning Conservative Politics Is Costly for an Evangelical Pastor" -- an 'emerging church' movement is questioning ties with GOP, militarism and America as 'a Christian nation.'
Exhibit - Outdoor Sculpture and Kinetic Art: "Semi-Scandalous Outdoors, Passé Indoors"
Mel Gibson Anti-Semitic Tirade: "Gibson Sorry for Conduct During DUI Arrest"
Golf, Renegade: "The Untucked Country Club" -- former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin hails from Perth Amboy
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.
Plainfield 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.
*
