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*Am off to Western New York for a family reunion for the weekend. Will be posting on Tuesday. Please be sure the budget mess is settled before I get back. Am counting on you all! .....;-) Dan
Since the Green / Moriarty / Sweeney proposal has helped ignite the state budget debate, all State Budget stories will be posted in the Plainfield section for the duration. -- Dan
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Off to the 'burned-over district'!"
McGreevey: "Moving day"
New Covenant Christian Academy - CN: "The Plainfield school that inspiration built"
..... - SL: "Academy aims to give Plainfield an option"
Letter: Joan Hervey: "Same-sex couples make good parents"
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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & State Budget:
..... - SL: Tom Moran: "Governor deserves a a medal for his mettle"
.......... - Editorial: "Grow up and sign the budget"
.......... - "A gradual shutdown, should budget talks fail"..... - CN: "Corzine prepares to pull plug on N.J. governmen"
..... - NYT: "Going to Rollaway Mattress in New Jersey Tax Standoff"
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Events for this week are here
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Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
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BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________
Appointments - NYT: "Booker Names 6 to Top Jobs in Newark"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Menendez/Kean Race: "Kean Campaign Film Against Menendez in Style of Swift Boat Ad"
AG Zulima Farber: "Bergen Prosecutor probing AG's role in traffic stop of her boyfriend"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Bernard Kerik: "Former NYPD chief Kerik close to plea deal in corruption case"
Supreme Court: "The third branch trips the president"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Firemen stage nude job protest in La Coruña, Spain. See Photo Gallery or Video
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 |
(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.
Plainfiield 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.*
*Since the Green / Moriarty / Sweeney proposal has helped ignite the state budget debate, all State Budget stories will be posted in the Plainfield section for the duration. -- Dan
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "DeFilippo 'underwhelmed' by Green... Two unreported beatings... Hometown kid in runoff..."
Plain Talker: "No Ringy-Dingies"
Former Plainfield Priest Nominated - NYT: "Gay Episcopal Priest Named as Possible Newark Bishop"
..... - CN: "Ex-Plainfield pastor gets bishop nod"
..... - SL: "Gay priest in running to lead Newark Episcopalians"
-- The Very Rev. Michael Barlowe, a candidate for Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, was rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Plainfield, from 1987 - 1991.
deLeeuw Scholarships: "Two dozen receive deLeeuw grant"
Muhlenberg: "Diabetes Center receives grant"
PHS Athletic Director: "Plainfield athletic director is suspended"
Rape Accusation: "Jury acquits Plainfield man accused of raping 17-year-old relative"
Letter: Rosalie Maimone: "Marriage drowning in arguments for 'rights'"
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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & State Budget:
..... - DeFilippo on Green: "DeFilippo 'underwhelmed' by Green"..... - SL: "Tensions mount as state budget battle gets ugly"
.......... - "A storm at Statehouse, a demand on budget"
.......... - Paul Mulshine: "Ding! It's the rumble under the Rotunda"
.......... - Bob Braun: "The governor, the fiscal mess and the tired script"
..... - CN: "Budget storm rumbles in Statehouse"
..... - NYT: "Near Deadline, Budget Theater in New Jersey"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Hospitals: "State hospitals jointly making great strides on ICU dangers"
..... - Abbott Preschools: "3 Newark preschools to close over finances probe"..... - Abbott Preschools: "District in fight over inventory, ownership of preschool equipment"
Events for this week are here
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Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Cranford: "Cranford: Mayor's signature was forged"
Hillside: "Liquor license renewal denied for Hillside bar"
New Brunswick: "School district at odds with Abbott preschool director"
BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________
Appointments: "Booker makes choices for top posts"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: As Corzine pointedly noted, he gave the budget to the Legislature 100 days ago this Friday. So, why are we in this pickle? See stories under Plainfield section.
Abbott Preschools: "3 Newark preschools to close over finances probe"
DYFS - SL: "Child-welfare reform plan is presented"
..... - CN: "Welfare chief lays out reform timeline"
Flooding: "Flight from a flood"
..... - "Many thousands are told to flee homes in Pa., N.Y. and Maryland"
..... - "State of emergency ordered for flood-soaked New Jersey"
Legislature: "GOP mayor accuses Democratic trio of abusing budget authority"
St. Barnabas Medicare Fraud: "Lawsuit: 1400 U.S. hospitals hurt by St. Barnabas"
Towns:
..... - Newark:
.......... - The Ledger's Newark campaign blog is here, and the NY Times blog is here..... - Atlantic City: "Court voids $850,000 A.C. settlement"
..... - Orange: "YWCA to close"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
'Cybersecurity' - SL: "Congress questions big contract for Bush cybersecurity director"
Iraq - SL: "Iraq insurgents tie peace to troop pullout"
NSA & Bank Spying - eWeek: "SWIFT: The Latest Victim of the War on Terror"
Supreme Court - SL: "Justices back GOP in Texas redistricting"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
One Laptop Per Child Project: "$100 Laptop Affords Opportunity" -- Nicholas Negroponte of MIT has started this project to design and equip children of developing countries with these modestly whiz-bang machines that will cost out at $100 each. This is a project with the potential for changing the world in ways we could not even imagine. A link to the nonprofit behind it all and to the Wiki article.
Google: "Google just a click away in new payment service"
Health: "Age of Transfused Blood May Play Part in Recovery"
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 |
(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.
Plainfiield 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.*
*Since the Green / Moriarty / Sweeney proposal has helped ignite the state budget debate, all State Budget stories will be posted in the Plainfield section for the duration. -- Dan
MIA: The Ledger's Joan Whitlow has a piece today raking over Cory Booker's gala plans for Saturday. Not online yet.
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "The $32,000 Misunderstanding?*"
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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & State Budget:
..... - PT: "The $32,000 Misunderstanding?*"..... - SL: "Roberts' rewrite of budget angers governor"
.......... - Analysis: "Mutiny: Mr. Roberts won't come on board"
.......... - Shutdown?: "Where no Jerseyans have gone before ..."
..... - CN: "Corzine: Sales tax hike must happen"
.......... - Editorial, CN: "Sales tax hike needs honest rationale"
..... - NYT: "In Trenton, Democrats in a Tax War"
..... - David Rebovich: "Dems budget crisis has deep roots"
.......... - GOP: "GOP's response to budget standoff"
..... - Wally Edge: "Welcome to budget week"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Mayoral Salary: "Morristown council set to raise Mayor's pay up to $52K"
..... - Daylaborers: "Trial Set After Talks Collapse in L.I. Daylaborers' Suit"..... - Welfare: "New Rules Force States to Curb Welfare Rolls"..... - Cosby in Newark: "Targets: deadbeat parents, do-nothing politicians, ineffective clergy"
Events for this week are here
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. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
. |..Click HERE to get listing form..|
. x----------------------------------x
Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Elizabeth: "Bar is raised, and many teacher assistants are out"
Warren - CN: "Lost dog leads to drug bust in Warren"
Warren - SL: "Stray dog leads the way to marijuana"
Woodbridge: "Race is on for OTB site in Woodbridge"
BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________
MIA: The Ledger's Joan Whitlow has a piece today raking over Cory Booker's gala plans for Saturday. Not online yet.
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: State budget fight coverage is under the Plainfield section
Menendez/Kean Race: Tom Moran: "A shadow problem for this friend of trees"
Legislature: "Sidetracked corruption bill angers sponsor"
..... - "Advocate urges graft probe for 3 lawmakers"
UMDNJ: "Money, management woes bring probation for UMDNJ"
Towns:
..... - Newark: Cosby Visit: "Targets: deadbeat parents, do-nothing politicians, ineffective clergy"
.......... - Housing Authority: "James pulls son's nomination; Council fails to act"
.......... - Police Director: "Newark police director to take new county job" -- Essex County takes care of its own...
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Bush's 'Special Statements' - SL: "Senators dispute president's use of special statements"
Flag Desecration - SL: "Amendment doesn't fly as Senate vote fails"
Spying on International Banking - SL: "Senate GOP condemns media for disclosure"
Welfare - NYT: "New Rules Force States to Curb Welfare Rolls"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
'Smart' Car: "Daimler Hopes Americans Are Finally Ready for the Minicar"
Rush Limbaugh: "Limbaugh and his Viagra pills under investigation"
Univision: "Univision board approves sale to consortium for $12 billion"
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 |
(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.
Plainfiield 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.*
*Since the Green / Moriarty / Sweeney proposal has helped ignite the state budget debate, all State Budget stories will be posted in the Plainfield section for the duration. -- Dan
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Parking lot finished, problems remain"
Plainfield Public Library: "Public can contribute to memory book"
Gospel Competition: "HERITAGE Show Choir wins Gospel Fest"
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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & State Budget:
..... - SL: "Speaker, Corzine still deadlocked in sales tax battle"
..... - CN: "Assembly to unveil budget without sales tax increase"
..... - BR: "Impasse continues over sales tax hike"
..... - NYT: "Support Builds for Corzine's Sales Tax Plan"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Garden State Equality: "Profile: Steven Goldstein"
..... - Disaster Preparedness: "Jersey not ready for another 9/11"..... - Nathaniel Davis: "Attorney Davis has backing of planners in Hillside"..... - Green Brook Flood Control - SL: "Progress seen on flood control"
..... - Green Brook Flood Control - CN: "Army Corps tours flood project"
..... - Housing Construction: "'New urbanism' transforms Montclair"..... - Accessibility: "Franklin activist gets town to make its building accessible"
Events for this week are here
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. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
. |..Click HERE to get listing form..|
. x----------------------------------x
Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Elizabeth: "Trinitas Hospital ER sports sign of the times: Crimestoppers info"
Hillside: "Attorney Nathaniel Davis has backing of planners in Hillside"
Hillside: "The Ranch: Bar's last call in hands of ABC board"
I-287: "With barriers, DOT aims to tame deadly highway"
BOOKER TRANSITION________________________________________________________________________
Council Perks: "Newark changes could start with council expenses"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Corzine: State budget storeis are filed under Plainfield heading
Menendez/Kean Debates [2] - SL: "Menendez, Kean go to the mat again"
..... - OpEd, SL: Paul Mulshine: "TV brings out the Dan Quayle in Tom Kean Jr."
..... - NYT: "Menendez and Kean Shift From Personal to Political"
..... - CN: "In Round 2, Menendez, Kean spar on ethics and taxes"
..... - BR: "Menendez, Kean slash each other in debate"
Disaster Preparedness: "Jersey not ready for another 9/11"
J&J/Pfizer Deal: "J&J sees big return from deal for Pfizer"
PSE&G / Exelon Merger - NYT: "Assembly Tries to Thwart Utility Merger"
Legislature:
..... - "A children's department clears Senate committee"
..... - "Senate panel okays tougher penalties for corrupt officials" - SL
..... - "Senate committee advances corrpution punishment bill" - CN
..... - "Senate: Fill prescriptions despite moral concerns"
..... - "Stem cell legislation on hold in Assembly"
..... - "Senate fields bills on protests at soldiers' funerals"
Towns:
..... - Newark - SL: "8 Newark shootings leave city in shock"
.......... - NYT: "Pabst Bottle Landmark Comes Down After 75 Years"
.......... - SL: "Photo Gallery: Pabst Bottle Dismantled"
..... - Edgewater: "Prosperity at a price"
..... - East Orange: "Big things ahead as $129.4M project gets OK"..... - Montclair: "'New urbanism' transforms Montclair"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Hillary's Senate Campaign - NYT: "Well-Known Political Blogger Is Hired" Iraq - SL: "Several rebel groups offer a truce in Iraq"
Librarians vs DHS - NYT: "U.S. Ends Effort to Obtain Library Records in Connecticut"
..... - The government concluded that the implied threat had no merit
Supreme Court - SL: "Justices back death penalty law in fractured ruling"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
Charities: "Experts hope the Gates-Buffett partnership will expand universe of causes"
Homosexuality: "Homosexuality linked to birth order says Canadian study"
Profile: "Steven Goldstein of Garden State Equaity: A champion for his cause"
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_________________________________________________________
(Photo, New York Times)
Katrina - Aid - NYT: "'Breathtaking' Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid"
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.*
