PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "HITS: Menendez, Overcrowding, Shouting, Strategies, and more..."
Plain Talker: "Planners Memorialize Redevelopment Items"
Health & Safety Fair: "Health, safety fair set for North Avenue on Saturday"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Real Estate: "Irresistible incentives entice home buyers"
..... - Juvenile Crime: "Troubling Signs Emerge: Kids & Guns" -- With chart.
..... - Pay-to-Play: "Montgomery further limits campaign contributions" -- How about that!
WHAT'S HAPPENING_________________________________________________________________________
Tonight: Concert by Germany's Harmonic Brass, Crescent Avenue Church. 8 PM. $25/$20 Seniors.
Tomorrow: Health & Safety Fair, North Avenue at Train Station. 10 AM - 3 PM. Free.
Hispanic Heritage Month Events Online Calendar: English and Spanish.
Events for this week are here
Union County: "Road construction updates".
Route 78: "Commuter help online"
Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Edison: "Computer firm unplugs Edison for not paying $39,000 bill"
Elizabeth: "Vietnam memorial recalls Elizabeth's fallen"
Linden: "Murder charge in Linden bar shooting"
Somerville: "Somerville, Pathmark word war escalates"
South Plainfield: "Superfund site safety questioned"
Union Twp.: "Vauxhall shopping center OK'd"
Westfield: "Westfield pitching $9.4M school plan"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Essex County Races: "Booker backs 3 fellow Democrats"
Housing Authority: "Housing authority chairman, Booker ally, is chosen"
Vailsburg Killings: "Indianapolis stakeout nets two suspects in Newark triple killing"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Menendez / Kean Race - SL:
..... - NYT: "Tape About Hiring Puts Menendez Camp on the Defensive"
..... - WashPost: "Menendez's Firing of Staffer Buoys New Jersey GOP Hopes"
..... - Berg Rec: "Menendez scoffs at GOP claims he'll quit race"
..... - APP: "Race Gets Rougher"
..... - The Tape - Philly Inq: "Tape adds to Menendez ethics debate" -- Listen to the audio here (3 clips).
Maplewood-South Orange Merger: "Voters to choose panel on towns merger"
PSE&G: "Cleanup costs could doom PSEG plant"
Seton Hall Fire Trial: "Fire expert maintains Seton case was arson"
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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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Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, NY Times)
Bush - NYT: "New Woodward Book Says Bush Ignored Urgent Warning on Iraq" -- Amazon info.
2006 Elections - WP: "Bush Attacks 'Party of Cut and Run'"
..... - "Religious-Right Voter Guides Facing Challenge From Left"
Abramoff & White House - NYT: "Report Links White House and Lobbyist" -- Including 10 Rove visits.
..... - WP: "Abramoff Put White House Contacts at 400"
Clinton Interview - OpEd, SL: John Farmer: "Finger-pointing a continuation of 9/11 failures"
Intelligence Report - OpEd, SL: John Farmer: "Bush is losing war close to home"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Art & Religion - OpEd, SL: "Those who have faith know art cannot threaten it"
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.
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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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