PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Garrison Keillor: Congress and American values"
Plain Talker: "Bean Counters Alert" and "City Presses Developer On Occupancy Issues"
Election: "Courier's Election Year Notebook - Plainfield" -- No pics, but what did you want for FREE?
School/Business Partnerships: "Schools, business joining forces"
Sweets in School: "Healthy foods make the grade"
Writer Speaks: "Kids' book author to speak at library" -- It's OUR Margie Palatini. Unfortunately, it's in East Brunswick.
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Guns: "Some Call It Bullet Town. She Calls It Home."
..... - Housing Costs: "Housing Costs Rise. So Does Life on the Edge."
..... - Fighting Recidivism: "On the outside, parolees' new trade skills bring hope"
..... - Eminent Domain: "State, county used eminent domain, didn't finish work"
..... - Lynch Fallout: "Pressure builds to return Lynch donations"
..... - Litter - OpEd, SL: "Garden State or Garbage State?"
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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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Roselle Park: "Mayor presents vision of downtown"
Union County: "Study sees county's early retirement plan costing $9.3M"
Union County: "Courier's Election Year Notebook - Union County"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
MIA: Ledger has huge story on Cory Booker's First Hundred Days.
MIA: Ledger has an editorial on tougher ethics rules for school districts. You'll have to run out and buy the paper for these.
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, October 08, 2006"
Menendez / Kean Race - The Debate - SL: "Senate rivals' rancor spills out for TV viewers"
..... - NYT: "Senate Debate in New Jersey: War of Words"
.......... - Analysis: "A Show of Hostility for Menendez and Kean"
..... - Kean on Kean - SL: "In his own words: GOP candidate Tom Kean Jr."
..... - CN: "Kean Jr., Menendez take swats in debate"
Ballot Questions: "Voters face three ballot questions on funding"
Port Authority: "The lavish, secretive workings of the PA"
Stender/Ferguson Race - SL: "Congressional staffer removed signs?" -- Stender campaign claims it has video footage.
Towns: Jersey City: "Some Call It Bullet Town. She Calls It Home."
The Trans-Fat Wars: "Angry Callers Prompt Senator to Close Office"
The Turnpike: "Jersey looks to collect billions on privatizing the Turnpike"
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Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
Progress Report: "Many Words, Little Progress"
School Funding: "On school district consolidation, some more serious talk at forum"
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Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Editorial Cartoon: Englehart, The Hartford Courant
Foley Fallout - GOP Reaction - WP: "Foley Consuming GOP As Elections Draw Near"
..... - When? - WP: "Staffer Cites Earlier Role by Hastert's Office"
..... - Impartial? - USAToday: "Republicans on ethics panel have ties to Hastert"
..... - Email Source? - The Hill: "Longtime Republican was source of e-mails" -- Counters claims it was a Dem setup.
..... - More Accusers - ABC News: "Three More Former Pages Accuse Foley"
..... - Gay GOPers - NYT: "Foley Case Upsets Tough Balance of Capitol Hill’s Gay Republicans"
..... - Conservative View: George Will: "Foley vice will prove to be Dems' virtue"
Bush 'Signing Statements' - Boston Globe: "Signings called effort to expand executive power" -- A report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. A browser-friendly copy of the full report is here, courtesy of the Federation of American Scientists.
..... - An Example: "Bush says he can edit security reports" -- Last Wednesday Bush signed a law that said, in part, that ONLY the DHS privacy officer "could alter, delay or prohibit the mandatory annual report on Homeland Security department activities that affect privacy, including complaints." Bush, in a 'signing statement,' said he wouldn't abide by this part of the law. Take that!
Afghanistan - WP: "Taliban Back, Using Iraq-Style Violence"
Iraq - WP: "U.S. Casualties in Iraq Rise Sharply"
'Scooter' Libbry Trial - AP: "Prosecutor: Libby Wants to Load Up Trial" -- Tactic of using classified info would limit public access to trial.
Military - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Poll: Troops say armed forces stretched too thin overseas"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Commentary: Bill Moyers on the state of America: "Lincoln Weeps"
Fox News and Ethics - OpEd, SL: Paul Mulshine: "Fox is in the henhouse" -- From a CONSERVATIVE yet!
Voter Registration Drives: "Voter registrations faked in GOP drive" -- It may go with the turf when ANY organization pays people to register voters.
Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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SPORTS LINKS: PHS | Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Aftermath: "New Orleans Population Is Reduced Nearly 60%"
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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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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