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Thursday, August 10, 2006

10 - Thu - Dem Farm Team: Any there there?... Master Plan hearing tonight... Toliver on Blanco... Egyptian kids just want to have fun?...

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Plainfield Today: "Dem 'Farm Team': Is there any there there?"
Plain Talker: "Residents To Have Say Tonight"

Letter: Alex Toliver: "Blanco wanted best for Plainfield"

Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Gang Violence: "Slain Detective and Suspect Had Crossed Paths Before"
..... - Guardian Angels: "Angels to visit Poconos as prelude to possible chapter" -- what ever happened to the Plainfield chapter?
..... - Illegal Immigrants: "Feds deploy 3rd team to hunt fugitive illegal immigrants"
..... - Services Consolidation: "8-town police force is a cost-cutting idea"
..... - Daylaborers & Unions: "Union leaders wary of AFL-CIO pact"
..... - Eminent Domain - Editorial, CN: "Don't keep it simple on eminent domain"

Events for this week are here

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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________

Bedminster: "Bedminster GOP chooses Pane as fall candidate"
Bound Brook - CN: "Case against Bound Brook chief moving forward"
..... - SL: "A new twist in suspended chief's defense"
Elizabeth: "Elizabeth primary winners plan appeal"
Fanwood: "Fanwood approves budget of $7.7M" -- Here you can learn why tax bills go out seemingly late.
Manville: CN: "Missing Egyptians found in Manville"
..... - AP: "3 missing Egyptian students are in U.S. custody"
..... - WP: "3 Visiting Egyptian Students Held; 8 Missing"
Mountainside: "34 residents join no-knock registry in Mountainside"
New Brunswick: "Nurses at RWJ see strike Monday"
Roselle Park: "Study doesn't yield concrete plan for historic Roselle Park building"
UC Adult High School: "150 former dropouts earn their diplomas"
Westfield: "Small-town charm fits film with Latifah"
Woodbridge: "Woodbridge Democrats back McCormac"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

Menendez / Kean Race: "Lieberman's loss could bode well for Menendez"
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Property Tax Reform:
..... - Public Pensions: "Lawmakers assail public benefit plans"
..... - OpEd, SL: Kevin Ciak: "We can have tax reform and quality schools"
..... - Column, SL: Paul Mulshine: "Same old joke on property taxes"
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Housing -
NYT: "100,000 Units of Housing Are Planned in New Jersey"
Medicare: "Cut in Medicare fees worries Jersey MDs"
Science/Tech Commission: "Technology commission gets extra $2.3 million in budget"
School Vouchers: "Civil rights leader Reginald Jackson backs Jersey school vouchers"
Supreme Court: "State's top court allows class-action arbitration in loan contract disputes"
UMDNJ: "UMDNJ gives layoff notices to at least 120"

Towns -
Montclair: "Reward leads to suspects in Presby Iris Garden vandalism"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

2006 Elections - Conn., NYT: "Voters’ Anger Tipped Scales for Lamont" -- and survey chart.
Heathrow Plot - WP: "British Police Thwart Major Terror Plot"
Middle East - NYT: "Rice’s Hurdles on Middle East Begin at Home"


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Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.

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DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________

Katrina - Rebuilding:

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"

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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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