Plainfield Today: "Doubleheader tonight: Council, Planning Board"
(Photo, Courier News)
House Tour: "Nothing plain about it"
Budget: "Mandated costs driving city tax hike"
Council: "Vote expected on pedophile-free zone tonight"
Crime [last item]: "Plainfield man charged in sale of fake green card"
Union County: "Road construction updates".
Route 78: "Commuter help online"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Corruption: "Ex-Governor of Illinois Gets 6½ Years in Prison"
..... - Guardian Angels: "Sliwa admits making up accounts of attacks on himself"
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___________________________________________________________________________
Hillside: "Tough Hillside intersection among projects in county"
Kean U: "Overcoming the butterflies"
Roselle Park: "Borough pays legal expenses for officer"
RWJ: "A self-contained heart comes to N.J."
Scotch Plains: "Town to purchase Cooper Road tract for open space"
Springfield: "Bookkeeper admits $1.5M theft from employer"
Union/Irvington: "Union man is slain in drive-by shooting"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Top Cop - SL: "Booker taps NYPD ace to lead Newark police"
......... - Analysis: "Newark police blotter has smudges"
..... - NYT: "NYC Crime Strategist Picked as Director of Newark Police Force"
School Safety: "Booker extends safety plan to schools; Special zones, cameras, more truancy officers"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine - SL: "Newark legal activist chosen as Corzine's chief counsel"
..... - CN: "Corzine names advocacy lawyer to chief counsel job"
..... - NYT: "Corzine Names New Counsel"
Menendez / Kean Race:
..... - SL: "N.J. Senate race takes on presidential proportions"
CN - Bush: "Bush touts Kean Jr.'s character, morals"
CN - Clinton: "Clinton raises funds at gala for Menendez"
..... - NYT: "Ex-Presidents, Often Allies, Divided by a Senate Race"
Dems: "As Democrats meet in A.C., labor chiefs may spoil the party"
EWR: "TSA lifts burden on screeners in Newark"
Veterans: "Cosby, in Newark, tells vets they deserve better health care"
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Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
School Funding - Editorial, CN: "Abbott funds need to stay in aid plans"
School Costs - SL: "Maryland may show Jersey the way to pare school costs"
..... - CN: "Lawmaker renews school plan push to trim property taxes"
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Sheneman's Cartoon is here -- Something's going on, the cartoon is old, and DS appears to be part of the WashPost group now. Will advise if/when more is learned.
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Cartoon: Mike Keefe, Denver Post)
Bush & Rumsfeld - MSNBC: Keith Olbermann: "Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?" -- transcript, with links to video. The headline, of course, references Army attorney Joe Welch's challenge to Sen. Joe McCarthy at the April 1954 Army hearings [transcript].
..... - OpEd, SL: Paul Mulshine: "The anti-fascist oxymorons"
DeLay - WSJ: "Lobbying Probe Looks at Payments To DeLay's Wife"
Breaking - Great Britain - Reuters: "Blair to Step Down in May, Reports Say"
Islamo-Fascism? - CSM: "Is it fair to compare terror to cold war?"
Lebanon - WP: "Israel to End Blockade of Lebanon"
Lieberman & Bush - NYT: "Leery of ‘Defense Secretary Lieberman’"
Plame Affair - Truthout: "FBI Suspected Rove and Libby Pre-Fitzgerald"
Secret CIA Prisons - NYT: "President Moves 14 Held in Secret to Guantánamo" and a list of the 14.
..... - WP: "Bush Says Detainees Will Be Tried" -- Am I too cynical, or have these bad guys been 'saved' for a show trial at a crucial election time?
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Brazilian Festival: "2-day Ironbound fest salutes culture of Brazil this weekend"
Political Ads: Fred Tuccillo: "Not much more than playground name calling"
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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(Photo, Courier News)
House Tour: "Nothing plain about it"
Budget: "Mandated costs driving city tax hike"
Council: "Vote expected on pedophile-free zone tonight"
Crime [last item]: "Plainfield man charged in sale of fake green card"
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
..... - Corruption: "Ex-Governor of Illinois Gets 6½ Years in Prison"
..... - Guardian Angels: "Sliwa admits making up accounts of attacks on himself"
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___________________________________________________________________________
Hillside: "Tough Hillside intersection among projects in county"
Kean U: "Overcoming the butterflies"
Roselle Park: "Borough pays legal expenses for officer"
RWJ: "A self-contained heart comes to N.J."
Scotch Plains: "Town to purchase Cooper Road tract for open space"
Springfield: "Bookkeeper admits $1.5M theft from employer"
Union/Irvington: "Union man is slain in drive-by shooting"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Top Cop - SL: "Booker taps NYPD ace to lead Newark police"
......... - Analysis: "Newark police blotter has smudges"
..... - NYT: "NYC Crime Strategist Picked as Director of Newark Police Force"
School Safety: "Booker extends safety plan to schools; Special zones, cameras, more truancy officers"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine - SL: "Newark legal activist chosen as Corzine's chief counsel"
..... - CN: "Corzine names advocacy lawyer to chief counsel job"
..... - NYT: "Corzine Names New Counsel"
Menendez / Kean Race:
..... - SL: "N.J. Senate race takes on presidential proportions"
CN - Bush: "Bush touts Kean Jr.'s character, morals"
CN - Clinton: "Clinton raises funds at gala for Menendez"
..... - NYT: "Ex-Presidents, Often Allies, Divided by a Senate Race"
Dems: "As Democrats meet in A.C., labor chiefs may spoil the party"
EWR: "TSA lifts burden on screeners in Newark"
Veterans: "Cosby, in Newark, tells vets they deserve better health care"
____________________
Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
School Funding - Editorial, CN: "Abbott funds need to stay in aid plans"
School Costs - SL: "Maryland may show Jersey the way to pare school costs"
..... - CN: "Lawmaker renews school plan push to trim property taxes"
____________________
Sheneman's Cartoon is here -- Something's going on, the cartoon is old, and DS appears to be part of the WashPost group now. Will advise if/when more is learned.
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Cartoon: Mike Keefe, Denver Post)
Bush & Rumsfeld - MSNBC: Keith Olbermann: "Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?" -- transcript, with links to video. The headline, of course, references Army attorney Joe Welch's challenge to Sen. Joe McCarthy at the April 1954 Army hearings [transcript].
..... - OpEd, SL: Paul Mulshine: "The anti-fascist oxymorons"
DeLay - WSJ: "Lobbying Probe Looks at Payments To DeLay's Wife"
Breaking - Great Britain - Reuters: "Blair to Step Down in May, Reports Say"
Islamo-Fascism? - CSM: "Is it fair to compare terror to cold war?"
Lebanon - WP: "Israel to End Blockade of Lebanon"
Lieberman & Bush - NYT: "Leery of ‘Defense Secretary Lieberman’"
Plame Affair - Truthout: "FBI Suspected Rove and Libby Pre-Fitzgerald"
Secret CIA Prisons - NYT: "President Moves 14 Held in Secret to Guantánamo" and a list of the 14.
..... - WP: "Bush Says Detainees Will Be Tried" -- Am I too cynical, or have these bad guys been 'saved' for a show trial at a crucial election time?
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Brazilian Festival: "2-day Ironbound fest salutes culture of Brazil this weekend"
Political Ads: Fred Tuccillo: "Not much more than playground name calling"
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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