PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Attempts to Squelch Abbott District Town Meeting?"
Plain Talker: "Green Suffers Pique", "Council Seeks Spending Details", "Cleanup Benefits Neighborhoods"
Abbott Funding: "Community forum on school funding"
Hispanic Heritage Event: "Documentary to be screened Thursday"
Planning Board: "Board to memorialize White Castle plan" -- Sack of double cheeseburgers, please.
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Zoning Officers: "A call for inspection reforms"
..... - Ethics: "Highland Park looks at ethics measures"
..... - Tax Revaluation: "Revaluation has Orange looking for tax relief"
WHAT'S HAPPENING_________________________________________________________________________
Today: 7 - 9 PM. Council Budget Hearing. City Hall Library. The Public may speak.
Tomorrow: 7 PM. Abbott School Funding Forum. Washington School. David Sciarra speaking. Refreshments. Free. -- Taxpayers will want to attend. Are tax increases in store for next year?
..... - 8 PM. Council Business Session. Courtroom. The Public may speak.
Friday: 8 PM. Organ Recital. Crescent Avenue Church. $25. Info: 756-2468. -- Olivier Latry, Titular Organist, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris.
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___________________________________________________________________________
2006 Elections: "Primary challenges in Elizabeth, Roselle affecting printing of ballots"
Union Co. Prosecutor Romankow: "A bigger platform for fighting drugs and child abuse"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Council: "Newark council to decide today on cop director"
Documentary Film: "Documentary tries to capture complexity of Newark" -- Maybe PCTV-74 could update its July schedule and run this important film?
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Menendez / Kean Race - SL: "Kean demands adding a national TV debate vs. Menendez"
..... - Bergen Record: "Kean, Menendez spar over debates"
..... - Column, SL: Tom Moran: "Dirt digging could get very messy for Kean"
..... - CN: "Candidates squabble on stem cells"
Corzine's Kitchen Cabinet: "The Goldman Sachs Crew That’s Helping Run Trenton Government"
Corruption - OpEd, Bergen Record: "N.J., where bad apples are always in season"
DEP: "DEP divvies up $4.5M in grants to encourage towns to recycle"
Farber: "Prosecutor won't go after Farber for ignoring traffic-stop subpoena"
Food Banks: "State funding is earmarked for food banks"
Port Security: "Chertoff targets port operators who release unchecked cargo"
Public Health - Flu: "Jersey to deliver the message on how to fight a flu pandemic"
..... - Structure: "Complexity raises questions about NJ's ability to respond"
Seton Hall Fire Trial - SL: "Seton burn victims free to take the stand"
..... - NYT: "Fire Survivors at Seton Hall Can Testify, Judge Rules"
Supremes: "Justices close Megan's Law loophole"
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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____________________________________________________________________________
Editorial Cartoon: Mike Lane, Cagle Cartoons
9/11 Warnings - McClatchyWire: "Rumsfeld, Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11"
Foley Fallout - WP: "After Foley, New Fears For the GOP" -- Chart, "Who Knew What When"
..... - Analysis: Eugene Robinson: "No Spinning Past This Scandal"
..... - The Pages: "Why Capitol Pages Fear Retaliation"
..... - NJ: "Congressman Ferguson donates Foley aid"
Global Warming Report - SL: "Science administrator denies stifling global warning report"
Iraq - ConsortiumNews: "Kissinger's Bad Advice on Iraq"
Supremes - SL: "What can get an immigrant deported? High court must decide"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Anti-Muslim Incidents: "Muslim bias hits all-time high"
Military Chaplains: "Battle Brewing Over Military Chaplains"
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_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Rebuilding: "200 in Westfield wield hammers, nails on house headed to Biloxi"
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"
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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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