PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
(Household items dumped three blocks from City Hall.)
Plainfield Today: "Commercial Trash / Illegal Dumping: An Album With Commentary"
Plain Talker: "Planners Fret Over Process"
Muhlenberg: "Donations support hospital project"
Red Cross: "Red Cross chapter selects new officers"
Episcopal Diocese of Newark - SL: "Gay priest among 6 vying today for Newark Episcopal bishop"
..... - CN: "Gay priest next Newark Episcopal bishop?"
Ethics - SL: Paula Franzese, Daniel O'Hern: "A statewide ethics standard"
McGreevey - PolNJ: David Rebovich: "McGreevey's therapeutic autobiography" -- A must-read.
Ramadan: "Jersey Muslims say their children find more spirituality in Ramadan"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - NY Waterways: "Takeover averts hike in fare on ferry route from N.J. to Wall St."
..... - Eminent Domain: "Township to use eminent domain at airport tract"
..... - Voter IDs: "Bill to require voter photo IDs upsets activists"
WHAT'S HAPPENING_________________________________________________________________________
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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NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Menendez / Kean Race: "GOP says Menendez got free ads; Dems call claim 'ridiculous'"
Ethics - OpEd, SL: Paula Franzese, Daniel O'Hern: "A statewide ethics standard" -- and PT's archive.
Governor's Schools: "Governor's Schools need new funds"
Rutgers-Newark: "RU business school invests $31.5M in the future"
Scholarships for Athletes: "Olympians honor N.J. student-athletes"
Torricelli - Chi SunTimes: "Feds probe gov's fund-raising trips, East Coast connections"
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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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Towns:
..... - Bogota: "Court bars English-only referendum" -- Mayor to turn to high court
..... - Cape May: "A bevy of monarch butterflies floods resort with fall color"
..... - Sea Bright: "State seeks unrestricted access to Sea Bright sand"
..... - Jersey City: "Med center's CEO resigns a day after bleak fiscal report"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Editorial Cartoon: Nick Anderson, Louisville Courier-Journal
Detainee Prosecutions - NYT: "Detainee Deal Comes With Contradictions"
FDA - WP: "FDA Told U.S. Drug System Is Broken"
Pakistan - WP: "Musharraf says Armitage threatened to bomb country 'into the Stone Age'"
'Reading First' Program: "Bush's reading program criticized in internal audit"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Illustration, NY Times)
Retail: "Enlisting Science’s Lessons to Entice More Shoppers to Spend More" -- and chart.
Antiques Business: "Looking for an Antique Shop? Find It in a Mall"
Mary Hartman? Mary Hartman?: "'Mary Hartman' star set to direct RVCC student play" -- PT was just asking about Louise Lasser the other day; now THERE'S a show that should be in reruns!
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.
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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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