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Saturday, September 02, 2006

02/2006 - Sat - Courier canes PT... Boards get members... Plainfield man gets TWO life sentences for ONE murder...

PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________

















Plainfield Today: "Courier soundly canes PT"
Plain Talker: "New Youth Commission, Other Boards, Get Members"

Mayoral 'Escorts' - Editorial, CN: "Responsibility has a place in blogs, too"
Letter: Jo-Ann Sloane: "Ingrassia remains in people's hearts" -- Grieving 9/11 mother thought of Plainfield YM clients.
Murder: "Plainfield man gets two life sentences for wife's 2004 murder" -- Those creative headline writers again!
Weekend Weather: Map from AccuWeather





















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

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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Hazleton Law: "Pennsylvania Town Delays Enforcing Tough Immigration Law"
..... - Mayoral Salaries - Editorial, SL: "What a mayor should make"

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']


TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________

Elizabeth: "Prison is clerk's payment for stealing welfare checks"
Middlesex Borough: "Superintendent says ACLU claims against district 'an insult'"
Somerset/Middlesex Counties: "Shell game ends for 31 charged in drug sting"
Union County: "County posts $19,000 tab at conference" -- AND gets award for Park-Madison complex.


BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________

Poll: "New Jersey voters like Booker"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

Attorney General - Editorial, SL: "Demand a higher standard"
Payment of Contractors: "New law requires faster payment to construction contractors"
Rutgers: "A trimmed down Rutgers: Classes and staff slashed"

Towns:
Deal: "In Deal, an all-too-public quarrel"

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Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.

Committees Hard at Work: "Tax panels bear down after early obstacles"
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Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

Bush - Harper's: "The Bush Administration and Godwin's Law" -- Is Rummy channeling Herman Goering?
Domestic Spying - SL: "Oregon eavesdropping case could expose U.S. secrets"
Iraq - AP: "Pentagon gives gloomy Iraq report"
..... - NYT: "Bush’s Shift of Tone on Iraq: The Grim Cost of Losing"
..... - The Nation: "Challenging the Culture of Obedience" -- Text of the speech of SLC mayor Rocky Anderson to a peace rally in that city.
Plamegate - NYT: "New Questions About Inquiry in C.I.A. Leak"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________














Journalism: Jack Shafer in Slate - "The Great Press War of 1897"
Political Families: "Officials' families can be political assets, liabilities"

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 |

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