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Sunday, August 20, 2006

20 - Sun - White fences... Council, board schedules... Farber affects Menendez?... Hovnanian makes $33M in P2P deal...

PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________








Plainfield Today: "Signs of the Times - White Fences"
Plain Talker: "Board, Council Cram Schedules"

Bike Rodeo: "Children learn bicycle safety at Plainfield police annual program"
Board of Ed: "School board schedules three meetings this week"
Financial Planning: "Unitarians offer financial planning seminar for all"
Letter: John Caminiti: "Politicians' true nature revealed"
Seniors: "Senior annual barbecue will be held Thursday"
Seniors: "Farmers market vouchers available"

Union County: "Road construction updates".
Route 78: "Commuter help online"

Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Libraries: "Welcoming the world, Libraries serve immigrant populations"
..... - Rabbits in Suburbia: "Rabbit baby boom: Hungry nibblers feeding on Jersey terrain" -- Had 'em for years
..... - Substance abuse education: "Puppets give kids a hand with expressing emotion"
..... - Joint Police Task Forces: "Does Prosecutor Insure Local Cops?"

Events for this week are here

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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________

Central Jersey: "Police departments on cusp of change in Central Jersey"
Kenilworth: "Pitch pipes made in Kenilworth are legendary"


BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________

300-year-old Tree: "Future of Tree With a Long Past Is in Doubt"
Sharpe James' Last Trip: "Five days in Rio on Newark's credit card"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

MIA: Tom Moran's piece today on AG candidate Stuart Rabner is not online. Will post if it comes up.

The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, August 20, 2006"

Menendez / Kean Race: "For Menendez, Being an Ally Could Haunt"

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Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
Editorial, CN: "Shifting tax burden to business is bad business"
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Attorney General: "Ethical compass points to Rabner as top AG choice"
Canada Geese - Editorial, SL: "Go get the geese"
Cuba: "Cuban Archive project aims for a reckoning of Castro regime"
Down the Shore: "War at the Shore: Bungalows under attack"
..... - Pictorial History: "Island Album: Photographs and Memories of Long Beach Island"
Drugs: "Authorities arrest 2 over fatal heroin mixtures contaminated with fentanyl"
Pay to Play Payoff?: "Home developer hovnanian made quick $3M after selling 44 acres to Cherry Hill"
PSE&G / Exelon Merger: "In Huge Merger of 2 Utilities, ‘Quiet Agency’ Is in Spotlight"
St. Barnabas Healthcare: "Hospitals Grew With Medicare Paying the Way"
Xanadu - Editorial, SL: "Mess in the Meadowlands"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

2006 Elections - WP: "GOP's Financial Edge Shrinks"
2010 Census - SL: "Four years from 2010 tally, Census budget is under attack"
Bush - Analysis, WP: "Conservative Pundits Renounce The President"
Iraq - Breaking, NYT: "Snipers Kill 16 Pilgrims in Baghdad" -- Baghdad seems falling into chaos
Israel - ChiTrib: "Israeli unity a casualty of war"
Lebanon - WP: "Israel Strikes Deep in Lebanon; Attack Condemned as Violation of Truce"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________

















Book Review: "With 'Enough,' Juan Williams joins Cosby's challenge to Black America" -- Amazon link
Book Review: "Golden Shackles: Black Athletes Still Captive to Institutional Racism"
Immigrants - OpEd, SL: "Does citizenship require conformity?"
Internet & 'Immortality': "On the Internet, no one dies, keeping our ghosts in the machine"

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

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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"

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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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