Gang bust.. Board of Ed results.. Budget observations.. Corzine going 91.. Value of trees..

PLAINFIELD

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Plainfield Today: "School Budgets: A concluding unscientific postscript"

Plain Talker: "Ready for Our Close-Up" and "Readers Help Get Pole Fixed"
Crescent Times: "Congratulations to School Board winners"

Gangs - Clinton Avenue Poss, SL: "17 arrested, guns and narcotics seized"
.......... - CN: "Cops wipe out Plainfield gang with 17 arrests in three towns"

School Board Elections/Budgets - CN: "Campbell, Cox, Estevez win in Plainfield" -- Complete Courier tabulations here.
..... - Budgets - CN: "Voters OK budgets in most polls"
.......... - SL: "Voters OK 15 of 19 school tabs" -- Complete Ledger tabulations here.

Fire: "East 7th Street home damaged in fire"

Trees: "Maybe Only God Can Make a Tree, but Only People Can Put a Price on It" -- Software that helps quantify the value of trees, financial and otherwise.

Route 78 Construction Updates: "DOT Construction Updates" -- Delays can run 15-20 minutes during AM rush hour.

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

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• Today. April 18. 8 PM. City Council Business Meeting. City Council Chambers/Courthouse. Watchung Avenue and East 4th Street.
  
  
• Thursday/Friday. April 19/20. 7:30 PM. Play: Zooman and the Sign. A production by PHS PAC Drama of Pulitzer-winning playwright Charles Fuller's urban drama dissecting the danger of forsaking community. At PHS Auditorium. Tickets: $7/Adult, $4/Student.
  
  
• Friday. April 20. 6 PM, Potluck. 7 PM, Program. Think Globally / Act Locally: Racial Justice & Police Brutality. First Unitarian Society. 724 Park Avenue. Info: 756-0750. FREE.
  
  
• Saturday. April 21. Plainfield Cooks! This event, which raises funds for the 'Beat The Odds' scholarship program has been rescheduled for October.
  
  
• Saturday. April 21. Noon. Cultural Adventure Through The Arts Festival. Sponsor: Central Jersey Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta. At Washington Community School, 427 Darrow Avenue. Info: Danielle Howard, (732) 921-9618. FREE.
  
  
• Saturday. April 21. 2 PM. Play: Zooman and the Sign. A production by PHS PAC Drama of Pulitzer-winning playwright Charles Fuller's urban drama dissecting the danger of forsaking community. At PHS Auditorium. Tickets: $7/Adult, $4/Student.

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CENTRAL JERSEY

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Storm Aftermath: "Codey to view devastation from air"
..... - Bound Brook - SL: "Bound Brook blasts delay of flood-control project"
............... - CN: "Towns fault lack of flood controls"
.......... - Viability: "Confidence is ebbing in Bound Brook"
.......... - Mark Di Ionno: "Ambushed by Floyd, this time town was armed and waiting"
..... - Manville: "Manville sustains heavy damages"
..... - Cleanup Tips: "For victims of flooding, steps to guide home cleanups"

STATE

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(Illustration, Star-Ledger)

Corzine Accident - SL: "Corzine's driver in crash was doing 91"
.......... - Executive Speeding: "Speeding is routine for chief execs"
.......... - Interactive Graphic: "Corzine's crash"
.......... - Editorial: "Corzine's unsafe speed"
.......... - Paul Mulshine: "Blame the vehicle, not the driver"
.......... - Codey: Tom Moran: "Some jobs no easier the second time around"
..... - NYT: "Corzine’s Speed Put at 91 M.P.H. Near Crash Site"

2007 Elections: "'Big three' Democratic panels rout Trenton GOP in fundraising"
Gangs: "Bloods kingpin gets 30 years" -- Feds used the anti-racketeering RICO statute to prosecute.
Supremes: "Justices speak volumes on right to remain silent"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.


NATION / WORLD

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Attorneygate - ABC Exclusive: "Gonzales contradicts his own testimony"
..... - McClatchy: "Bush, Gonzales reportedly discussed fired prosecutor"
..... - WP: "Immunity Weighed for Ex-Gonzales Aide Goodling"
.......... - Editorial, WP: "Beyond Mr. Gonzales: The White House"

2008 Elections: Monmouth/Gannett Poll: "Voters prefer Clinton, Giuliani in new poll"
GOP - Contra Costa Times: "McCloskey Leaves Republican Party" -- That's former Congressman Pete McCloskey, whose family have been GOP stalwarts in California since 1859, BEFORE Lincoln was elected the first Republican president.


OF INTEREST

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NJ & Virginia Tech Rampage: "Pain and Pride"
.......... - "Matt La Porte of Dumont"
.......... - "Julia Pryde of Middletown"
.......... - "Michael Pohle of Raritan Twp."
............... -CN: "Raritan Twp. man killed in rampage"
.......... - "Liviu Librescu, colleague of Rutgers prof Haim Baruh"
..... - NJ campuses' safety: "N.J. starts focusing on own safety protocols"

Gentrification: "The Harlem Revival Brings in the Shops"
Literacy: "Word by Word, the World Becomes a Little Less Mystifying for Illiterate Adults"
Mortgage Industry: "Supreme Court Sides With Banks on Mortgage Rules"
New Deal? Square Deal?: Steven Pearlstein: "For Consumers, the Raw Deal"

Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.

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