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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

19 - Wed - Info at City Hall English-only?... DPW gets paving tools... Tenure shelters bad teachers... Heat on Farber grows...

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Today: City Council Business meeting, 8:00 PM, Courthouse AND Board of Ed meeting
Today: Death Penalty Study Commission public hearing, 2:00 PM, State House Annex, 1st Fl., Committee Rm. 4. Info: (800) 973-6548 [If attending, bring photo ID]. See www.njadp.org
Thursday: 6:00 PM, Plainfield Idol Contest, Plainwood Square Park --
Yesterday's News and The Poni Tails


PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________

Plainfield Today: "Info at City Hall English-only?"
Plain Talker: "DPW To Get Road Equipment"

Letter - CN: Dottie Gutenkauf: "Marriage defense stereotypical rant"
Letter - CN: Maria Pellum: "Homophobia ignores real ills"

Cop & Teacher Salaries & Benefits - a 6-part series by the Bergen Record:
..... - Wed: "Tenure helps good teachers and shelters the bad ones"
..... - Tue: "Workers' health care causing pain"
..... - Mon: "Unions drive a hard bargain"
..... - Sun: "Can N.J. afford the rising cost of teachers and cops?"

Connections? Food For Thought
..... - 'Ghetto Tax': "Study Documents ‘Ghetto Tax' Paid by the Urban Poor" and the study
..... - Gangs: "Gangs and kids: Cops speak out"
..... - Abbott Schools: "Advocates sue for release of report on school funding"
..... - Mayoral Salary: "Morristown doubles mayor's pay to $52K, 4-3"
..... - Development: "Bloomfield mayor backs $200 million housing plan"

Events for this week are here

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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________

Berkeley Heights: "Angered residents jam town meeting"
Bound Brook SL: "Councilman's sex harassment case settled quietly"
..... - CN: "Bound Brook harassment suit settled for $21,000"
Clark: "Clark residents find sewer bill overcharges"
Edison: "N.Y. Times to shut Edison plant in'08"
Kenilworth: "An infusion of youth for Democrats"
North Plainfield - CN: "County wants to bury boy cops say was left in toilet"
..... - CN: "North Plainfield man charged as identity thief"
..... - SL: "Somerset moves to bury newborn left in a toilet"
Piscataway - SL: "Edgy Halpers still awaiting eviction from farm"
..... - CN: "Halper family eviction imminent"
Union Twp.: "Money Magazine lists township among most secure in nation"
Westfield: "Traffic lights replacing cops"


BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________

Booker honors hero: "Robbery-busting chef gets a taste of hero treatment from mayor, bank"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________











AG Zulima Farber with top State Troopers, February, 2006

AG Zulima Farber - SL: "Probe of Farber to cost the state $75,000 a month"
.......... - Column: Paul Moran: "The heat's on Farber after latest act of folly"
..... - CN: "Calls increase for Farber's resignation"
..... - NYT: "Calls in Trenton for Ouster of Attorney General"

Menendez/Kean Race - PolNJ: "Menendez accuses Kean of Stem Cell flip-flop"

Capital Punishment: "Panel takes up life-or-death debate"
Corrections System: "Prison probes racial slur on Muslim officer's locker"
DYFS - SL: "Judge approves new child welfare reforms"
..... - Editorial, CN: "DYFS fixes have to start working"
Flood Control - SL: "Corzine urged to shore up flood control"
..... - CN: "Groups urge more flood control"
Hudson River Tunnel - NYT: "New Hudson Rail Tunnel Is Nearing Federal Approval"
Solar Energy: "BPU flooded with applications for rebates"
NJ Supremes: "Top court declines to rule on adopted children's visits"
Taxes: "Dem lawmaker revives SMART tax reform push" and release
Turnpike Authority: "Turnpike chief under state ethics inquiry"
UMDNJ - SL: "To end scandal, Rutgers-UMDNJ merger is urged" -- and release -- Reformer Sen. Ray Lesniak is joined by Sen. Joe Vitale in urging Corzine to merge the schools
..... - NYT: "Merger Urged for University"

Towns:

..... - Millburn/Union: "Millburn Mall takes a pass on age-old Jewish establishments"
..... - Newark: "Trial nears end for high-living drug mogul -- or innocent entrepreneur"
..... - Haworth: "Blog flogs McMansions" -- Blog name is spelt out on garage door, the rest is history...
..... - Morristown: "Morristown doubles mayor's pay to $52K, 4-3"
..... - Bloomfield/East Orange: "Bloomfield mayor backs $200 million housing plan"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
















Editorial Cartoon: Daryl Cagle, MSNBC

Bush - WP: "Conservative Anger Grows Over Bush's Foreign Policy"

Abbott Schools: "Advocates sue for release of report on school funding"
Domestic Spying - WP: "Bush Thwarted Probe Into NSA Wiretapping"
Online Gambling - SL: "U.S. indicts 11 people in online gambling case"
Marriage Amendment - SL: "House foils opponents of same-sex marriage" -- Ferguson for, Frelinghuysen and all Dems against
Middle East - WP: World Opinion Roundup: "Can Israel Defeat Hezbollah?"
..... - NYT: Analysis: "With Israeli Use of Force, Debate Over Proportion"
NAACP - Reuters: "Bush grabs NAACP 'opportunity' after years of avoiding gathering"
Stem Cell Research - SL: "Senate, expecting veto, backs wider stem cell research"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________

Jerseyana - NJ Monthly: "52 Things Every New Jerseyan Needs To Know"

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_________________________________________________________

Indonesia: "Indonesian tsunami toll climbing"
Katrina: "MD, nurses accused of killing patients after Katrina"

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
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

18 - Tue - Kongrats, perfesser... Mayor disregards Council rules--again... Senior 'condos'?... Budget pork...

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Wednesday: City Council Business meeting, 8:00 PM, Courthouse AND Board of Ed meeting
Wednesday:
Death Penalty Study Commission public hearing, 2:00 PM, State House Annex, 1st Fl., Committee Rm. 4. Info: (800) 973-6548 [If attending, bring photo ID]. See www.njadp.org
Thursday: 6:00 PM, Plainfield Idol Contest, Plainwood Square Park
Next Thursday: PMUA Board, 6:00 PM, PMUA Offices, 127 Roosevelt Avenue (yesterday's info incorrect, NO meeting this week)


PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________

















Plainfield Today: "Kongrats, perfesser!"
Plain Talker: "Order Lacking At Council Meeting" and "Meeting Update [Council and Bd of Ed]"

Senior Center - SL: "Plainfield senior condos planned; 63 units would raise $400,000 in taxes"
..... - CN: "City's mayor presents plans for senior center"

Cop & Teacher Salaries & Benefits - a 6-part series by the Bergen Record:
..... - Tuesday: "Workers' health care causing pain"
..... - Monday: "Unions drive a hard bargain"
..... - Sunday: "Can N.J. afford the rising cost of teachers and cops?"

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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & Budget Fallout:

Budget 'pork': Linda Stamato: "Tacking on pork and undermining public trust"
Tax Reform - Editorial, CN: "If legislators can't deliver, time for tax convention"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Public Employee Contracts: "NYC Mayor Vows to Keep Trying for Concessions by Unions"
..... - Dual Officeholding - Editorial, SL: "Ban dual office-holding"

Events for this week are here

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TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________

Edison: "Edison makes Money magazine's list of top places"
Edison: "Edison's naked cop must be fired"
Elizabeth: "Ex-cop's conviction reinstated in fatal beating"
North Plainfield: "Social Services joins manslaughter case involving newborn"
Piscataway - SL: "Deadline comes, Halper family stays on farm"
..... - CN: "Halpers remain at Piscataway farm"
Union Twp.: "Owner wants U.S. probe of Union warehouse arson"


BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________

Light Rail: "Newark hopes new light rail keeps revival rolling along"
Sharpe James - NYT: "Ex-Mayor Will Get $323,000 in Pay and Pension"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________













Farber and 'the Billboard' - SL: "Billboard controversy snares AG"
..... - Column, SL: Paul Mulshine: "McDonald's case shows Farber's not on a roll"

Menendez/Kean Race: Polls: "Senate rivals jockeying for top spot, polls find"
..... - Kean: "Kean bucks Bush on stem cells, but Democrats aren't buying it"

Auto Inspections: "N.J. wants inspections to green-light autos with minor defects"
Dual Officeholding - Editorial, SL: "Ban dual office-holding"
DYFS: "State strikes new deal on child welfare reform"

Farber and the Traffic Stop - Record: "High-profile lawyer hired by Farber for probe of traffic stop"
Homeland Security: "2 counties get most risk-based terror aid"
NY Waterways: "Ferry firm pays $1.2M to settle post-9/11 overbilling case"
Skateboard parks: "'Hold harmless' waivers wipe out in top court"
UMDNJ: "Monitor asks U.S. attorney to help motivate UMDNJ board"

Towns:

..... - Glen Ridge: "Moving day follows kids' graduation day in one high-tax town"
..... - Wayne: "Wayne sued over mosque application; discrimination alleged"
..... - Passaic: "Passaic hospital set to reopen after boiler blast, evacuations"
..... - Bogota: "Billboard controversy snares AG"
..... - Montclair: "Struggling to preserve the flavor of Montclair"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

Bush - SanDiegoUnionTrib: "Dean raps Bush on defense"

G-8 Summit - SL: "Microphone catches Bush cursing Mideast mess over a buttered roll"
Middle East - Tikkun: Rabbi Michael Lerner: "End the Suffering in the Middle East"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________















Obituary: "Mickey Spillane, Critic-Proof Writer of Pulpy Mike Hammer Novels"
Voting Machines: "Blowing the Whistle on Diebold"

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_________________________________________________________

Indonesia: "Deadly tsunami strikes Indonesia"

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.

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Monday, July 17, 2006

17 - Mon - TW3: Digest of past week... Meetings galore... Green answers Mapp... Cop, Teacher salaries...

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Tonight: City Council Agenda-setting session, 7:30 PM, City Hall Library
Wednesday: City Council Business meeting AND Board of Ed meeting
Thursday: PMUA Board, 6:00 PM, PMUA Offices, 127 Roosevelt Avenue



PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________

Plainfield Today: "TW3: Jul 9 - 16, 2006: News digest of the past week"
Plain Talker: "A Hot Week For Meetings" -- two each for Council, Board of Ed

Cop & Teacher Salaries & Benefits - a 6-part series by the Bergen Record:
..... - Monday: "Unions drive a hard bargain"
..... - Sunday: "Can N.J. afford the rising cost of teachers and cops?"

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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & Budget Fallout:

Letter, CN: Jerry Green: "Budget initiative not against unions"
Haste Makes Waste?: "Lawmakers hope for no N.J. budget hangovers"

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Connections? Food For Thought









(Photo, NY Times)
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- Voter Turnout: "Arizona Ballot Could Become Lottery Ticket"

..... - State Pensions: "Sharpe James to cost taxpayers $323,654 a year" -- The city refused the info under an OPRA request, the Ledger had to sue to get it

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___________________________________________________________________________

Piscataway: "Halpers noncommittal about noon departure deadline"
Scotch Plains: "Iraq vet, Scotch Plains native recounts two-month detention in Sierra Leone"


BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________












(Photo, NY Times)
Light Rail - NYT: "Rail Spur Brings Downtown Newark a Taste of Its Past"
Crime - SL: "City's calm shaken by 3 homicides in 1 night"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

Corzine: See State Budget stories under Plainfield section
Menendez/Kean Race - Record: "Menendez's tack: Keep state issues at a distance"
..... - CN: "Menendez loses edge over Kean in new poll"

Heating Oil: "Heating oil prices may follow climb at the gas pump"

Towns:

..... - Paterson - SL: "Surrender ends hostage drama"
.......... - NYT: "A Hostage Standoff Ended After a Mother’s Appeal"
..... - Sparta: "A twist in plot gives bookstore a new chapter"
..... - Cherry Hill: "Cherry Hill's burgeoning downtown faces hurdles"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________


















(Map, WashPost and Jerusalem Post.
Click to enlarge.)

Mideast Crisis - WP: "G-8 Leaders Work Out Plan For End to Mideast Crisis"
..... - NYT: "Israel and Hezbollah Continue Attacks"

Dems - WP: "A New Alliance Of Democrats Spreads Funding"
G-8 Summit
[Breaking] - WP: "Microphone Captures Bush's Unscripted Comments at G-8"
Iraq - Analysis, SL: John Farmer: "For Iraq's future, check Lebanon's past"
Medicare - NYT: "Bush Administration Plans Medicare Changes"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________











(Map, NY Times - Click to enlarge.)
Gay Resorts: "Gay Getaways: The New Wave"
AIDS at 25: "Search for vaccine elusive"
Immigration: "Not to Forget: The Spanish settled here first"
Israel Lobby - WP Mag: "A Beautiful Friendship?"
Web: "Web sites give mourners an outlet to cope with death"

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.

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Sunday, July 16, 2006

16 - Sun - Cops deserve better... Cop & teacher salaries & benefits... Budget fallout...

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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________

Plainfield Today: "Plainfield cops deserve better"

Cop & Teacher Salaries & Benefits - a 6-part series by the Bergen Record:
..... - Sunday: "Can N.J. afford the rising cost of teachers and cops?"

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Green/Moriarty/Sweeney Proposal & Budget Fallout:

Analysis - NYT: "In Shutdown, Republicans Pass Up an Opportunity"
The Auditor: "Sunday, July 16, 2006" The Auditor supplies more behind-the-scenes tidbits on the budget crisis and passage...
Budget Fallout - CN: "Jersey resigned to hike in taxes"
..... - AP: "Political leaders question budget process after shutdown"
Property Tax Reform: "Lawmakers regroup for summer property tax debate"
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Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Youth Police Academy: "Summit Academy an exercise in police work"
..... - Traffic Alert: "Route 18 widening remains on schedule"
..... - Loft Conversions: "East Orange explores factory conversion to lofts"
..... - Schools & Gangs: "Lawrence BOE unveils anti-gang draft policy"
..... - Traffic Alert: "PA chief says new projects must get under way"
..... - Teen Center: "Group looks to open teen dance hall in Somerville"

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___________________________________________________________________________

Bound Brook: "Dem hopeful drops out of Bound Brook council race"
Franklin Twp.: "Franklin official maintains post, new job in D.C."
Hillside: "Valedictorian wears mantle of role model with ease"
Peapack-Gladstone: "Nuns to take their history with them"
Scotch Plains: "The missionary's tale: 2 bewildering months in an African prison"
Somerville: "Group looks to open teen dance hall in Somerville"
South Plainfield: "Suspect at large after bank robbery"
Summit: "Youth Police Academy an exercise in police work"
Union Twp.: "Contestant kicks martial arts TV show into gear"


BOOKER & NEWARK_________________________________________________________________________

Light Rail Link: "$207M rail link between Penn and North Broad stations set to open"
Summer School: "Summer school lets students succeed"


NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, July 16, 2006"

Corzine: Steve Adubato: "Corzine's new style: Passionate, confident"

Demographics: "Pennsylvania struggles to accommodate NJ ex-pats"
Health: "The new face of HIV at 25: Portraits of Five New Jerseyans living with HIV"
Home Rule: "How Jersey became the land of so many towns -- and taxes"
Hudson River Tunnel: "Feds mull $3B train tunnel plan for N.J., N.Y."
Road Work:
"PA chief says new projects must get under way"
Sales Tax: "Taxing times for N.J. consumers as 7 percent sales levy kicks in"

Towns:

..... - Paterson: "Hostage crisis ended"
..... - Perth Amboy: "Perth Amboy man injured in early-morning hit-run"
..... - Passaic: "St. Mary's Hospital evacuated after blast"
..... - East Orange: "Meeting to explore factory conversion to lofts"
..... - New Brunswick: "As New Brunswick Grows, City’s Hungarians Adapt"
..... - West Orange: "The Manor: Where New Jersey Goes to Be Wined and Dined"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________

GOP - WP: Analysis: "GOP Fears Fallout Of Immigration Split"
Middle East - Editorial, SL: "Containing the Mideast fire"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________

Crime Victims' Rights: "Richard Pompelio's crusade gains national scope"
Judicial Safety: "New York Panel OKs Pistol-Packing Judges"
Sex Assaults: "Crisis of silence; Most sex assaults go unreported"
Real Estate: "Rising Up Against Teardowns"

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.

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