PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Crime: Good news, bad news"
Crime Fighting: "Operation CeaseFire's next target: Plainfield shootings"
Gangs - Bloods: "How the FBI took down a deadly Jersey gang"
Public Library: "Library takes donations of food and toys"
.......... - "'The Elves' Toy' puppet show"
Tic-Tock's Gift: "Rescued by an Unexpected Gift" -- I am told McClintock also stayed in Plainfield. SHIP has helped many Plainfielders.
Not getting your own CLIPPINGS email daily? Got a tip? Click here to send PT an email.
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - HS Halls of Fame: "Honoring Those Who Once Walked the Halls"
..... - Brownfields: "Section of W. Orange, Orange to get rehab"
WHAT'S HAPPENING_________________________________________________________________________
Dec 4 - 19: Holiday Food & Toy Drive. Non-perishable food items, new or nearly-new toys. During Library Hours. Plainfield Public Library. Info: 757-1111 x111.
Next Friday: 7 PM. Annual Children's Christmas Celebration. Tree Lighting, Carols, Refreshments. Drake House, West Front & Plainfield Ave. FREE.
Next Friday: 8 PM. John Kee (The Prince of Gospel) Gospel Concert. Shiloh Baptist Church, 517 West 4th St. Tickets available at Church office. Info: (908) 754-3919 or www.shilohplainfield.org/
Next Saturday: 11:30 AM. Holiday Puppet Show: 'The Elves' Toy'; and visit by Santa. Plainfield Public Library. 8th & Park. Info: 757-1111 x128. FREE.
Next Saturday: 8 PM. NJ Gay Mens Chorus: Holly Days & Starry Nights. Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church. Info: (609) 396-7774. $25 at door.
Events for this week are here
Union County: "Road construction updates".
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___________________________________________________________________________
7th CD: "Ferguson attributes close race to anger about Iraq"
Roselle Park: "Roselle Park gets speed humps"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Guns & Gunplay: "An arms race on the streets has cops seizing more weapons"
Taxi Director: "Suspended Booker ally back on the job"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Rutgers - WVU: "Rutgers hopes ended in 3 OTs"
..... - "RU future looks even brighter, says Britt"
..... - "Backup downs Rutgers"
..... - "After magical season, this loss can't cool fans' Scarlet fever"
..... - Steve Politi: "Rutgers football's promising future"
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, December 03, 2006"
Auto Insurance: "Ad blitz is evidence of booming business"
Casinos & Smoking: "The Smokeless and the Speechless" -- Norcross behind that cloud somewhere?
Global Warming: "The little lab that roared" -- The weather lab Bush tried to sideline.
Ground Zero Heroes: "Assured the air was safe to breathe, thousands labored at Ground Zero"
Highlands Plan: Paul Mulshine: "Legislate in haste; repent at leisure"
Legislature: "Ethics group wimps out, won't decide complaints"
NY Harbor: "Governors Island's revival has been rocky"
Pay-to-Play: "Pa. firm gave $1M to top McGreevey fundraiser while winning state pacts"
Pfizer - SL: "Pfizer scraps its breakthrough drug"
..... - NYT: "Deaths Prompt Pfizer to End Cholesterol Drug Trials"
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Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
What about renters?: "Low-income Jerseyans need tax cuts, too"
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Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Editorial Cartoon: Englehart, Hartford Courant
CIA 'Renditions' - Seattle Weekly: "Boeing Accused of Running 'Torture Travel Agency'"
Congress - WP: GOP: "GOP Leaders Plan Quiet 1-Week Session" -- 'Running out the clock'
..... - Dems: "Democrats Reject Key 9/11 Panel Suggestion"
Cuba - NYT: "A Rare Silence Reverberates in Castro’s Long Goodbye"
Iraq - WP: "'About 5 Minutes Into It, We Had to Take Over'" -- This is the Iraqi Army we've trained.
..... - Guardian/UK: "Corruption: the 'second insurgency' costing $4B a year"
Iraq Study Group - WP: "Officials Expect No Big Changes, No Matter What Panel Advises"
Lebanon - WP: "At Barricades in Downtown Beirut, Lebanon's Fault Lines Grow Deeper"
Litvinenko Affair - NYT: "Russian Ex-Spy Lived in a World of Deceptions"
Rumsfeld - NYT: "Rumsfeld Memo on Iraq Proposed ‘Major’ Change"
.................... - Text: "Rumsfeld’s Memo of Options for Iraq War"
..... - WP: "Rumsfeld Called for Change in War Plan"
Supreme Court - WP: "Supreme Court to Review Two School-Integration Plans"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Beer Battle: "State sees downside to Santa's backside"
Boomers & Retirement: "Boomers find retirement doesn't work"
Customer Service Revenge: "Mad as 'Dell hell' and not going to take it anymore" -- Check this out!
Episcopal Church: "California Diocese Votes to Secede From Church"
Korean Culture: "Korean culture for the whole family"
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 - Aid: "Order Shows FEMA Aid Shortcomings"
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 |
(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Plainfield Today and Clippings have no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of these articles nor are Plainfield Today or Clippings endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
Some publications, such as the NY Times and the Ledger, remove their articles from free access after a period of time (for the Times it is one week, for the Ledger two). This means the link may become broken or may lead you to a pay-for-access page. If you are a 'clipper,' save the interesting stories to your hard drive the day you read them, that way you will always have access to them.
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Plainfield Today: "Crime: Good news, bad news"
Crime Fighting: "Operation CeaseFire's next target: Plainfield shootings"
Gangs - Bloods: "How the FBI took down a deadly Jersey gang"
Public Library: "Library takes donations of food and toys"
.......... - "'The Elves' Toy' puppet show"
Tic-Tock's Gift: "Rescued by an Unexpected Gift" -- I am told McClintock also stayed in Plainfield. SHIP has helped many Plainfielders.
Not getting your own CLIPPINGS email daily? Got a tip? Click here to send PT an email.
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - HS Halls of Fame: "Honoring Those Who Once Walked the Halls"
..... - Brownfields: "Section of W. Orange, Orange to get rehab"
WHAT'S HAPPENING_________________________________________________________________________
Dec 4 - 19: Holiday Food & Toy Drive. Non-perishable food items, new or nearly-new toys. During Library Hours. Plainfield Public Library. Info: 757-1111 x111.
Next Friday: 7 PM. Annual Children's Christmas Celebration. Tree Lighting, Carols, Refreshments. Drake House, West Front & Plainfield Ave. FREE.
Next Friday: 8 PM. John Kee (The Prince of Gospel) Gospel Concert. Shiloh Baptist Church, 517 West 4th St. Tickets available at Church office. Info: (908) 754-3919 or www.shilohplainfield.org/
Next Saturday: 11:30 AM. Holiday Puppet Show: 'The Elves' Toy'; and visit by Santa. Plainfield Public Library. 8th & Park. Info: 757-1111 x128. FREE.
Next Saturday: 8 PM. NJ Gay Mens Chorus: Holly Days & Starry Nights. Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church. Info: (609) 396-7774. $25 at door.
Events for this week are here
Union County: "Road construction updates".
Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
. x----------------------------------x
. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
. |..Click HERE to get listing form..|
. x----------------------------------x
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
7th CD: "Ferguson attributes close race to anger about Iraq"
Roselle Park: "Roselle Park gets speed humps"
BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________
Guns & Gunplay: "An arms race on the streets has cops seizing more weapons"
Taxi Director: "Suspended Booker ally back on the job"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Rutgers - WVU: "Rutgers hopes ended in 3 OTs"
..... - "RU future looks even brighter, says Britt"
..... - "Backup downs Rutgers"
..... - "After magical season, this loss can't cool fans' Scarlet fever"
..... - Steve Politi: "Rutgers football's promising future"
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, December 03, 2006"
Auto Insurance: "Ad blitz is evidence of booming business"
Casinos & Smoking: "The Smokeless and the Speechless" -- Norcross behind that cloud somewhere?
Global Warming: "The little lab that roared" -- The weather lab Bush tried to sideline.
Ground Zero Heroes: "Assured the air was safe to breathe, thousands labored at Ground Zero"
Highlands Plan: Paul Mulshine: "Legislate in haste; repent at leisure"
Legislature: "Ethics group wimps out, won't decide complaints"
NY Harbor: "Governors Island's revival has been rocky"
Pay-to-Play: "Pa. firm gave $1M to top McGreevey fundraiser while winning state pacts"
Pfizer - SL: "Pfizer scraps its breakthrough drug"
..... - NYT: "Deaths Prompt Pfizer to End Cholesterol Drug Trials"
____________________
Tax Reform:
Legislature's Tax Reform Website is here. Overviews of each committee, and a feedback link for your comments.
What about renters?: "Low-income Jerseyans need tax cuts, too"
____________________
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Editorial Cartoon: Englehart, Hartford Courant
CIA 'Renditions' - Seattle Weekly: "Boeing Accused of Running 'Torture Travel Agency'"
Congress - WP: GOP: "GOP Leaders Plan Quiet 1-Week Session" -- 'Running out the clock'
..... - Dems: "Democrats Reject Key 9/11 Panel Suggestion"
Cuba - NYT: "A Rare Silence Reverberates in Castro’s Long Goodbye"
Iraq - WP: "'About 5 Minutes Into It, We Had to Take Over'" -- This is the Iraqi Army we've trained.
..... - Guardian/UK: "Corruption: the 'second insurgency' costing $4B a year"
Iraq Study Group - WP: "Officials Expect No Big Changes, No Matter What Panel Advises"
Lebanon - WP: "At Barricades in Downtown Beirut, Lebanon's Fault Lines Grow Deeper"
Litvinenko Affair - NYT: "Russian Ex-Spy Lived in a World of Deceptions"
Rumsfeld - NYT: "Rumsfeld Memo on Iraq Proposed ‘Major’ Change"
.................... - Text: "Rumsfeld’s Memo of Options for Iraq War"
..... - WP: "Rumsfeld Called for Change in War Plan"
Supreme Court - WP: "Supreme Court to Review Two School-Integration Plans"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Beer Battle: "State sees downside to Santa's backside"
Boomers & Retirement: "Boomers find retirement doesn't work"
Customer Service Revenge: "Mad as 'Dell hell' and not going to take it anymore" -- Check this out!
Episcopal Church: "California Diocese Votes to Secede From Church"
Korean Culture: "Korean culture for the whole family"
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 - Aid: "Order Shows FEMA Aid Shortcomings"
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 |
(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Plainfield Today and Clippings have no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of these articles nor are Plainfield Today or Clippings endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
Some publications, such as the NY Times and the Ledger, remove their articles from free access after a period of time (for the Times it is one week, for the Ledger two). This means the link may become broken or may lead you to a pay-for-access page. If you are a 'clipper,' save the interesting stories to your hard drive the day you read them, that way you will always have access to them.
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