PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "TW3 - Aug 28 - Sep 4: Escorting Her Honor..." and "2006 murders rise to eight"
Murder No. 7?/8?: "Suspect sought in city slaying"
Schools: MIA online - a large list of changes in the Plainfield Public Schools for 2006-07 year.
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
..... - Pension Costs: "Cost of Pensions Adds to Factory Town’s Troubles"
..... - 9/11 Illnesses: "Officials Slow to Hear Claims of 9/11 Illnesses"
..... - Veterans: "Newark rally tomorrow to combat neglect of vets"
..... - Affordable Housing: "Affordable housing nears its 'sunset'; experts fear rising prices"
..... - Teacher Dress: "Dress with success: Jersey schools try teaching by example"
..... - Asbury Park - Editorial, SL: "Stronger school oversight"
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___________________________________________________________________________
Stender / Ferguson Race: "Democrats eye GOP in N.J. races"
Franklin Twp.: "Immigrant sees bright future in community's historic heart"
New Brunswick: "Striking nurses rally outside hospital"
South Plainfield - SL: "Kean and Menendez at Labor Day Parade"
..... - CN: "Romp and pomp in S. Plainfield"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Sharpe Investigation: "Federal probe to include 10 ex-mayor's aides"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Menendez / Kean Race: "Kean and Menendez at South Plainfield Labor Day Parade"
Port Authority: "Agencies spent $2B on transit security"
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Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
Pensions - Editorial, CN: "Some fixes for pension system easy to identify"
School Funding: "Web site draws public pleas to alter school funding" -- You'd never learn it from the CN article, but Newsday, the Long Island paper, identifies the website as http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/PropertyTaxSession/specialsessionpt.asp
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Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
2006 Elections - WP: "'Mortgage Moms' May Star in Midterm Vote"
..... - NYT: "G.O.P. Seen to Be in Peril of Losing House" -- with complete chart.
Iraq - Telegraph/UK: "I am powerless to save Iraq from civil war, warns Shia leader"
Rumsfeld - OpEd, NYT: Frank Rich: "Donald Rumsfeld's Dance With the Nazis" -- FREE version of Sunday's piece.
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Illustration, NY Times)
Real Estate Biz: "Last Stand of the 6-Percenters?" -- Is the Internet changing how real estate is done?
Terrorism in US - Foreign Affairs: John Mueller: "Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?"
Voting in America: "Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America's worst places to cast a ballot (or try)"
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.
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Plainfield Today: "TW3 - Aug 28 - Sep 4: Escorting Her Honor..." and "2006 murders rise to eight"
Murder No. 7?/8?: "Suspect sought in city slaying"
Schools: MIA online - a large list of changes in the Plainfield Public Schools for 2006-07 year.
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
..... - Pension Costs: "Cost of Pensions Adds to Factory Town’s Troubles"
..... - 9/11 Illnesses: "Officials Slow to Hear Claims of 9/11 Illnesses"
..... - Veterans: "Newark rally tomorrow to combat neglect of vets"
..... - Affordable Housing: "Affordable housing nears its 'sunset'; experts fear rising prices"
..... - Teacher Dress: "Dress with success: Jersey schools try teaching by example"
..... - Asbury Park - Editorial, SL: "Stronger school oversight"
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___________________________________________________________________________
Stender / Ferguson Race: "Democrats eye GOP in N.J. races"
Franklin Twp.: "Immigrant sees bright future in community's historic heart"
New Brunswick: "Striking nurses rally outside hospital"
South Plainfield - SL: "Kean and Menendez at Labor Day Parade"
..... - CN: "Romp and pomp in S. Plainfield"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Sharpe Investigation: "Federal probe to include 10 ex-mayor's aides"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Menendez / Kean Race: "Kean and Menendez at South Plainfield Labor Day Parade"
Port Authority: "Agencies spent $2B on transit security"
____________________
Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
Pensions - Editorial, CN: "Some fixes for pension system easy to identify"
School Funding: "Web site draws public pleas to alter school funding" -- You'd never learn it from the CN article, but Newsday, the Long Island paper, identifies the website as http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/PropertyTaxSession/specialsessionpt.asp
____________________
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
2006 Elections - WP: "'Mortgage Moms' May Star in Midterm Vote"
..... - NYT: "G.O.P. Seen to Be in Peril of Losing House" -- with complete chart.
Iraq - Telegraph/UK: "I am powerless to save Iraq from civil war, warns Shia leader"
Rumsfeld - OpEd, NYT: Frank Rich: "Donald Rumsfeld's Dance With the Nazis" -- FREE version of Sunday's piece.
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Illustration, NY Times)
Real Estate Biz: "Last Stand of the 6-Percenters?" -- Is the Internet changing how real estate is done?
Terrorism in US - Foreign Affairs: John Mueller: "Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?"
Voting in America: "Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America's worst places to cast a ballot (or try)"
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.
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