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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "TW3 - Aug 21 - 27: Digest of past week's Plainfield news"
Plain Talker: "Let Sun Shine On Development"
Blog Sparks Mayor's Police Escort?: "After gossip on blog, Plainfield mayor gets police escort"
Firefighter Decree: "N.J. fire squads still not diverse 26 years after decree"
Real Estate - NYT: "Read Between All Those For-Sale Signs" -- with a history of prices chart, 1890-2005. Archived here and here. This is a keeper!
Sex Offender Ordinance - Editorial, CN: "Pedophile restrictions provide illusion of safety"
Letter: Herb Kaufman: "Religious freedom misnomer today"
Union County: "Road construction updates".
Route 78: "Commuter help online"
Not getting your own CLIPPINGS email daily? Got a tip? Click here to send PT an email.
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Affordable Housing: "The Housing Crisis Goes Suburban"
..... - Wages: "Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity" -- Lowest share since records started in 1947.
..... - Community Building: "To Burnish Its Image, a City Stages an Alumni Reunion"
..... - Gov workers & Web: "JC will block workers from nonwork-related Web sites"
Events for this week are here
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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']
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Newark's Archbishop Myers: "Jersey archbishop in line to fill vacancy in Detroit"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
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Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
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BPU: "Environmentalists standing behind BPU"
DYFS: "Child abuse calls roll in to state hotline"
Firefighters Consent Order: "N.J. fire squads still not diverse 26 years after decree"
Taxes: "Study calls Jersey a taxing place to call home"
Towns: Jersey City: "Jersey City will block workers from nonwork-related Web sites"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Cartoon: R.J. Matson, The New York Observer and Roll Call
-- as always, click to enlarge.)
Florida - WP: "Rep. Katherine Harris Condemns Separation of Church, State" -- She sounds more and more unhinged.
Iran - NYT: "An Ex-Official Offers Glimpse of Iranian Views of U.S."
Iraq War - WP: "War Protesters Follow Bush to Maine" -- 700 protest before wedding Bush attended.
..... - Maine Sunday Telegram: "Antiwar protest attracts 600" -- people who have never in their life spoken out before came out to demonstrate.
Lebanon - NYT: "Annan Will Travel Mideast to Bolster Lebanon Peace Plan"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Truman Scholars: "Present Scholars, Future Leaders"
Big Brother is Here to Help?: "A silent eye checks in on the elderly"
College Students & Language Competency: Michael Skube: "Writing Off Reading"
Health: "Now in the Recovery Room, Music to Heal By"
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_________________________________________________________
Florida: "Florida prepares to wrangle with Ernesto"
New Orleans: "Skepticism swirls over report on levee system"
..... - "Mayor Nagin sorry for calling WTC site 'hole in the ground'"
Lessons Learned: "Relief organizations learning lessons from Katrina efforts"
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.
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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "TW3 - Aug 21 - 27: Digest of past week's Plainfield news"
Plain Talker: "Let Sun Shine On Development"
Blog Sparks Mayor's Police Escort?: "After gossip on blog, Plainfield mayor gets police escort"
Firefighter Decree: "N.J. fire squads still not diverse 26 years after decree"
Real Estate - NYT: "Read Between All Those For-Sale Signs" -- with a history of prices chart, 1890-2005. Archived here and here. This is a keeper!
Sex Offender Ordinance - Editorial, CN: "Pedophile restrictions provide illusion of safety"
Letter: Herb Kaufman: "Religious freedom misnomer today"
Union County: "Road construction updates".
Route 78: "Commuter help online"
Not getting your own CLIPPINGS email daily? Got a tip? Click here to send PT an email.
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Affordable Housing: "The Housing Crisis Goes Suburban"
..... - Wages: "Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity" -- Lowest share since records started in 1947.
..... - Community Building: "To Burnish Its Image, a City Stages an Alumni Reunion"
..... - Gov workers & Web: "JC will block workers from nonwork-related Web sites"
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']
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Newark's Archbishop Myers: "Jersey archbishop in line to fill vacancy in Detroit"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
____________________
Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
____________________
BPU: "Environmentalists standing behind BPU"
DYFS: "Child abuse calls roll in to state hotline"
Firefighters Consent Order: "N.J. fire squads still not diverse 26 years after decree"
Taxes: "Study calls Jersey a taxing place to call home"
Towns: Jersey City: "Jersey City will block workers from nonwork-related Web sites"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Cartoon: R.J. Matson, The New York Observer and Roll Call
-- as always, click to enlarge.)
Florida - WP: "Rep. Katherine Harris Condemns Separation of Church, State" -- She sounds more and more unhinged.
Iran - NYT: "An Ex-Official Offers Glimpse of Iranian Views of U.S."
Iraq War - WP: "War Protesters Follow Bush to Maine" -- 700 protest before wedding Bush attended.
..... - Maine Sunday Telegram: "Antiwar protest attracts 600" -- people who have never in their life spoken out before came out to demonstrate.
Lebanon - NYT: "Annan Will Travel Mideast to Bolster Lebanon Peace Plan"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Truman Scholars: "Present Scholars, Future Leaders"
Big Brother is Here to Help?: "A silent eye checks in on the elderly"
College Students & Language Competency: Michael Skube: "Writing Off Reading"
Health: "Now in the Recovery Room, Music to Heal By"
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_________________________________________________________
Florida: "Florida prepares to wrangle with Ernesto"
New Orleans: "Skepticism swirls over report on levee system"
..... - "Mayor Nagin sorry for calling WTC site 'hole in the ground'"
Lessons Learned: "Relief organizations learning lessons from Katrina efforts"
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.
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