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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Board of Ed faces new challenges"
Plain Talker: "Barksdale, Abdul-Haqq, Logan-Leach Sworn In; Cathcart is BOE President"
.......... - and: "City Council Seeks Repeal Of Anti-Overcrowding Ordinance"
Abbott Schools - SL: "State justices hear argument for freezing aid to poor schools"
.......... - "Farber argues Abbot fiscal failures mean districts can do without more aid"
..... - CN: "Before high court, Farber pushes for Abbott funds freeze"
..... - NYT: "Trenton Asks for a Freeze in School Aid"
Crime: "Plainfield man accused of fondling girl at church"
Girl Scouts: "Girl Scout volunteers are honored by Washington Rock Council"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Google 'Mashups': "Trinity College Uses Google to Map the Invisible City"
..... - Human Trafficking: "State offers perfect atmosphere for trafficking predators"
.......... - By the way, yesterday's Ledger story pointed out the suspects came to
.......... - the attention of authorities during the Plainfield case of four years ago
..... - Eminent Domain: "Bloomberg Says Power to Seize Private Land Is Vital to Cities"
.......... - Aaahh! But the debate is over using it for private -- as opposed to public -- purposes...
..... - Immigration Reform - LAT: "Immigrants Demonstrate Peaceful Power"
.......... - SL: Analysis: "With no overall leader, rights groups ponder the next step"
....../... - NYT: Analysis: "After Immigration Protests, Goal Remains Elusive"
..... - Sewerage Privatization: "Sewerage authority privatization stirs up debate"
..... - Recall - Editorial, CN: "Joerger's decision a winner for Bedminster"
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
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Bedminster: "County GOP overrules town committee, Holtaway gets line"
Edison: "Victims say off-duty cop fled from crash naked"
Garwood: "Garwood councilman charged with DWI"
Mt. St. Mary's & McAuley School: "Two Somerset schools join together for a prom"
Trailside Center: "Trailside Center will host annual Union County Pet Fair Sunday"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
MIA: An interesting story on two fast-food restaurants serving halal food -print only
Menendez/Kean Race - SL: "Sparks fly over big oil donations in Senate race"
..... - CN: "Dems, GOP sling Big Oil"
Anthrax: "2 anthrax samples found mislabeled in state lab cache"
Bird Flu: "Experts find nonlethal virus in Camden poultry market"
Budget: "Corzine defends sales tax hike, hospital fee"
..... - Tom Moran: "The GOP's point man in cutting the budget"
Commercial Real Estate: "Signs of an Upturn in New Jersey"
Giants/Jets Stadium: "Corzine airs discontent on roofless Meadowlands deal"
Self-serve Gas: "Corzine's self-service gas plan tanks"
Smoking: "State snuffs 25-foot smoking ban"
Supreme Court: "State Bar calls state judiciary too hasty; Rare swipe at Poritz"
SUV Emissions: "Jersey and 9 states suing Washington over SUV pollution"
Wind Farms: "Panel calls for experimental wind farm offshore" -- why not in Trenton?
Towns:
..... - Newark: "Televised debate for mayoral hopefuls tonight"
.......... - Rutgers-Newark Forum: "Hopefuls take on schools, Booker's war chest"
.......... - Blount: "A Newark upstart eyes an upset"
.......... - North Ward: "Dark horse quits North Ward race in Newark"
....... - The Ledger's Newark campaign blog is here, and the NY Times blog is here
..... - Orange: "10 battling for 4 seats on Orange City Council"
..... - Belleville: "Budget battle just beginning in Belleville"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Bush - Boston Globe: "3 Senators slam president over defying statutes"
..... - Financial Times: "Bush in ‘ceaseless push for power’"
..... - TomPaine: "Jim Lobe: Gimme That Old-Time Geopolitics"
Scandal Central:
..... - Abramoff: "Logs on Abramoff Visits to White House to be Released"
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Afghanistan: "Al Qaeda strategist is reported in custody"
Energy Market Manipulation - Truthout: "Senatorrs Press for Release of Enron Evidence"
Fairleigh Dickinson: "Entrepreneur's gift goes to alma mater FDU and his mentors"
Immigration Reform - See under Plainfield section
Iran - NYT: "U.S. and Europe Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran"
Iraq - Foreign Policy: Lt. Gen. William E. Odom: "Cut and Run? You Bet."
Nuclear Testing - AlterNet: "Bush's Nuclear Madness"
Voting Machines - Financial Times: "Electronic voting switch threatens mass confusion"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Free Speech: "Montana grants pardons 88 years after using sedition laws to suppress speech"
Hip-Hop: "Citing Fights, Landlord Sues to Evict 'Hot 97' Radio Station"
Internet Access - Editorial, NYT: "Keeping a Democratic Web"
Obesity: "Millions of U.S. teens on brink of diabetes"
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
SPORTS LINKS: Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Rebuilding: "Qatar Grants Millions in Aid to New Orleans"
..... - Including $17M to Xavier, the country's only historically Black Catholic university
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 | 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_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Board of Ed faces new challenges"
Plain Talker: "Barksdale, Abdul-Haqq, Logan-Leach Sworn In; Cathcart is BOE President"
.......... - and: "City Council Seeks Repeal Of Anti-Overcrowding Ordinance"
Abbott Schools - SL: "State justices hear argument for freezing aid to poor schools"
.......... - "Farber argues Abbot fiscal failures mean districts can do without more aid"
..... - CN: "Before high court, Farber pushes for Abbott funds freeze"
..... - NYT: "Trenton Asks for a Freeze in School Aid"
Crime: "Plainfield man accused of fondling girl at church"
Girl Scouts: "Girl Scout volunteers are honored by Washington Rock Council"
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Google 'Mashups': "Trinity College Uses Google to Map the Invisible City"
..... - Human Trafficking: "State offers perfect atmosphere for trafficking predators"
.......... - By the way, yesterday's Ledger story pointed out the suspects came to
.......... - the attention of authorities during the Plainfield case of four years ago
..... - Eminent Domain: "Bloomberg Says Power to Seize Private Land Is Vital to Cities"
.......... - Aaahh! But the debate is over using it for private -- as opposed to public -- purposes...
..... - Immigration Reform - LAT: "Immigrants Demonstrate Peaceful Power"
.......... - SL: Analysis: "With no overall leader, rights groups ponder the next step"
....../... - NYT: Analysis: "After Immigration Protests, Goal Remains Elusive"
..... - Sewerage Privatization: "Sewerage authority privatization stirs up debate"
..... - Recall - Editorial, CN: "Joerger's decision a winner for Bedminster"
Events for this week are here
. x----------------------------------x
. |....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___________________________________________________________________________
Bedminster: "County GOP overrules town committee, Holtaway gets line"
Edison: "Victims say off-duty cop fled from crash naked"
Garwood: "Garwood councilman charged with DWI"
Mt. St. Mary's & McAuley School: "Two Somerset schools join together for a prom"
Trailside Center: "Trailside Center will host annual Union County Pet Fair Sunday"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
MIA: An interesting story on two fast-food restaurants serving halal food -print only
Menendez/Kean Race - SL: "Sparks fly over big oil donations in Senate race"
..... - CN: "Dems, GOP sling Big Oil"
Anthrax: "2 anthrax samples found mislabeled in state lab cache"
Bird Flu: "Experts find nonlethal virus in Camden poultry market"
Budget: "Corzine defends sales tax hike, hospital fee"
..... - Tom Moran: "The GOP's point man in cutting the budget"
Commercial Real Estate: "Signs of an Upturn in New Jersey"
Giants/Jets Stadium: "Corzine airs discontent on roofless Meadowlands deal"
Self-serve Gas: "Corzine's self-service gas plan tanks"
Smoking: "State snuffs 25-foot smoking ban"
Supreme Court: "State Bar calls state judiciary too hasty; Rare swipe at Poritz"
SUV Emissions: "Jersey and 9 states suing Washington over SUV pollution"
Wind Farms: "Panel calls for experimental wind farm offshore" -- why not in Trenton?
Towns:
..... - Newark: "Televised debate for mayoral hopefuls tonight"
.......... - Rutgers-Newark Forum: "Hopefuls take on schools, Booker's war chest"
.......... - Blount: "A Newark upstart eyes an upset"
.......... - North Ward: "Dark horse quits North Ward race in Newark"
....... - The Ledger's Newark campaign blog is here, and the NY Times blog is here
..... - Orange: "10 battling for 4 seats on Orange City Council"
..... - Belleville: "Budget battle just beginning in Belleville"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
Bush - Boston Globe: "3 Senators slam president over defying statutes"
..... - Financial Times: "Bush in ‘ceaseless push for power’"
..... - TomPaine: "Jim Lobe: Gimme That Old-Time Geopolitics"
Scandal Central:
..... - Abramoff: "Logs on Abramoff Visits to White House to be Released"
:
Afghanistan: "Al Qaeda strategist is reported in custody"
Energy Market Manipulation - Truthout: "Senatorrs Press for Release of Enron Evidence"
Fairleigh Dickinson: "Entrepreneur's gift goes to alma mater FDU and his mentors"
Immigration Reform - See under Plainfield section
Iran - NYT: "U.S. and Europe Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran"
Iraq - Foreign Policy: Lt. Gen. William E. Odom: "Cut and Run? You Bet."
Nuclear Testing - AlterNet: "Bush's Nuclear Madness"
Voting Machines - Financial Times: "Electronic voting switch threatens mass confusion"
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Free Speech: "Montana grants pardons 88 years after using sedition laws to suppress speech"
Hip-Hop: "Citing Fights, Landlord Sues to Evict 'Hot 97' Radio Station"
Internet Access - Editorial, NYT: "Keeping a Democratic Web"
Obesity: "Millions of U.S. teens on brink of diabetes"
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
SPORTS LINKS: Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Katrina - Rebuilding: "Qatar Grants Millions in Aid to New Orleans"
..... - Including $17M to Xavier, the country's only historically Black Catholic university
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 | 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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