PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Financing Plainfield: The Devil is in the details"
Plain Talker: "Busy Week Starts Tonight"
Crime - CN: "Burglar arrested fleeing from Hillside Avenue home"
.......... - SL: "Burglary suspect arrested near Hillside Avenue home"
..... - "Plainfield man arrested in go-go bar attack"
Gun Buyback Program: "Union County to give cash for guns" -- Funds provided by Fountain Baptist Church.
McGreevey: "Market Report: McGreevey's 'Confession' a best-seller"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Mortgage 'Flipping' Fraud: "Mortgage Suit Says ‘Trust Us’ Led to Fleecing"
..... - Cop, Firefighter layoffs: "Perth Amboy residents decry proposed layoffs"
WHAT'S HAPPENING_________________________________________________________________________
Tonight: Film: Story of 'Operation Bootstrap' (Dominican Republic) -- Intro & discussion with Christian Estevez, Plainfielder and VP, NJ Latino Leadership Alliance.
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___________________________________________________________________________
Berkeley Hts: "Town ends plan to turn rescue squad into senior center"
Elizabeth: "Primary Re-run: Results still uncertain"
Elizabeth Gas Incident: "Trucking firm may not have known gas was left in ruptured storage tank"
Perth Amboy: "Perth Amboy residents decry proposed layoffs"
Vauxhall: "Vauxhall protesters gear up for another bout"
Watchung Reservation: "Trailside Center spreading its wings"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Menendez / Kean Race - SL: "Menendez dumps a close adviser caught on tape seeking 'favors'"
..... - Bergen Record: "Tapes could be trouble for Menendez"
..... - Philly Inquirer: "Tape adds to Menendez ethics debate"
..... - NYT: "Menendez Plays to His Base, in South Florida"
Death Penalty: "Death penalty panel hears from 10 who oppose executions"
Governors & Popularity: "Kean tops, McGreevey flops"
Minimum Wage: "Minimum wage to rise to $7.15 in New Jersey"
Muslims & Christians: "Muslim, Christian leaders call for mutual respect"
PSE&G: "Suit accuses PSE&G of discrimination"
SCC: "School building chief warns new funding is needed soon"
State Pension Bond Debt: "Morris takes on state over tab for pension debt"
Supremes: "Court refuses to hear appeal in Bogota mayor's language fight"
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Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
Shared Services - SL: "Officials tout gains of joining services"
..... - CN: "New panel may look for towns to merge"
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Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Editorial Cartoon: Editorial Cartoon, Sheneman, Star-Ledger.
Intelligence Report: -- Bush is stonewalling, hoping it will blow over. We'll see.
..... - NYT: "Dispute on Intelligence Report Disrupts Republicans’ Game Plan"
..... - SL: Paul Mulshine: "Whatever happened to the 'well-defined exit strategy' President?"
.......... - "Outcry over terror assessment keeps White House under siege"
..... - MSNBC: "White House refuses to release full NIE report"
..... - Times/UK: "Read it yourself, says Bush, making part of threat report public"
..... - AFP: "White House admits Iraq fuels extremism"
2006 Elections - NYT: "New Hope for Democrats in Bid for Senate"
..... - WP: "GOP Fortunes Improve Slightly With Bump in Bush's Numbers"
Iraq - WP: "65% of Iraqis Favor Immediate U.S. Pullout, Polls Show"
Torture: "Letter From Intelligence and Military Professionals" -- The 17 signers have put their jobs on the line.
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
(Photo, 1946, Truman Library)
Obituary: "Tokyo Rose, 90, famed Japanese radio propagandist of WWII"
Business Espionage: "Pretexting: The shady practice of duping for data"
Health: "Cell transplants hold promise for diabetics"
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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