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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

BOE voting on speaker pay.. McGee heading for Plainfield?.. Netherwood redev study..

PLAINFIELD


Plainfield Today: "Carlton McGee disappears from Atlanta; Heading for Plainfield?"

Plain Talker: "Board of Ed to Vote on Forum Speaker's Pay"
Crescent Times: "Whose clock is it anyway?"

Campaign Blogs (in alphabetical order): "Tony Rucker" | "Cory Storch"

Firefighters: "Two Plainfield firefighters are contestants on 'The Price Is Right'"
Redevelopment: "City plans to study nearly 100 properties near Netherwood station"

Abbott Funding - OpEd, SL: Paul Mulshine: "A deeper look at swimming pools and schools"
Gas Prices: "Increased Penalties for Gas Price Gouging" -- There now, don't you feel better?

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WHAT'S HAPPENING
  • Tuesday. May 15. 7 PM. Committee for a Safe Halloween in Plainfield. Meeting to discuss how to guarantee a safe Halloween for youngsters AND the whole community. At the Plainfield Public Library. 8th Street and Park Avenue. All are invited.

  • Thursday. May 17. 7 PM. Exhibit: No Easy Walk. Lecture by photographer Helen M. Stummer. Sponsor: Cultural & Heritage Commission. Plainfield Public Library, Park Avenue & West 8th Street. FREE.

  • Friday. May 18. 6 PM, Potluck. 7 PM, Program. Think Globally / Act Locally: Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism, Deborah Jacobs. First Unitarian Society. 724 Park Avenue. Info: 756-0750. FREE.

  • Saturday. May 19. 10 AM. Union County 150th Anniversary Celebration. Kickoff Lectures and Exhibits. At Union County College, 1033 Springfield Avenue, Cranford. Sponsor: Union County Freeholders. Refreshments will be served. FREE.

  • Saturday. May 19. Noon - 6 PM. Union County 150th Anniversary Celebration. Music, Entertainment and a Classic Auto Show. At Nomahegan Park, Springfield Avenue, Cranford (across from Union County College). Sponsor: Union County Freeholders. FREE.

  • Sunday. May 20. 9 AM - 4PM. 14th Annual FOSH Garage Sale. Sponsored by the Friends of Sleepy Hollow. Last year's sale had one hundred locations. One of Plainfield's best-attended annual events.

  • Sunday. May 20. 9 AM - 4PM. Van Wyck Brooks Garage Sale. Sponsor: Van Wyck Brooks Historic District. Start at 912 Central Avenue.

  • Sunday. May 20. 9 AM - 3 PM. 2nd Annual Multi-Yard Sale Benefitting Homeless Animal Lifeline. For more info, visit www.halrescue.org. Location: 1326 Watchung Avenue.

  • Sunday. May 20. 2 - 4 PM. Architectural Walking Tour of the VWB Historic District. Sponsor: Historical Society of Plainfield. Starting at: The Pillars B&B, 922 Central Avenue. $5 Individual/$10 Family. Tickets on sale at 1 PM.

  • Sunday. May 20. 3 PM. Crescent Concerts: Crescent Singers 'Ensemble!'. Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church. $20/$15 at the door.
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CENTRAL JERSEY

Booker, Healy & Obama - SL: "Mayors of Newark, Jersey City endorse Obama"
..... - NYT: "Clinton and Obama Visits Suggest New Clout for Two States"
Hudson River Tunnel - SL: "State gets green light on funding rail tunnel"
New Brunswick: "Art meets civics as city harnesses graffiti's power"
Paper Mill Playhouse - SL: "Help waiting in wings at Paper Mill"
..... - NYT: "Paper Mill Playhouse Announces Multifeatured Plan for Survival"


STATE

School Funding: "Rutgers-Newark grad students tackle school funding issue"

Legislature:
..... - "Public corruption bills advance"
..... - "Open space, historic preservation legislation cut off by governor"

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


NATION / WORLD

Attorneygate - WP: "Justice Dept.'s No. 2 to Resign"
..... - NYT: "McNulty, Gonzales’s Deputy, Quits Justice Department"
Bush - OpEd, SL: John Farmer: "Bush paying dearly for poisoned politics"
Congress - ThinkProgress: "Tenet Agrees to Cooperate With Investigation Into Niger Fraud"
.......... - Truthout: "Waxman Threatens to Subpoena CIA's Plame Documents"
Domestic Spying - SL: "New rules make Internet fair game for cyber wiretaps"
Immigration Reform - WP: "Top GOP Hopefuls Keep Distance on Immigration"
Rove 'Investigation' - Truthout: "Special Counsel's Ties to White House Mar Probe"
Wolfowitz Affair - WP: "Bank Rebukes Wolfowitz On Ethics"
.......... - NYT: "Bank’s Report Says Wolfowitz Violated Ethics"


OF INTEREST



William Blake's watercolor rendering of Cerberus

Chrysler: "Cerberus's Sharp-Toothed Ways" -- "Cerberus, the three-headed Hound of Hades, guarded the gate to the underworld and ensured that spirits of the dead could enter, but none could exit." Aptly named.
Invisibility: "Scientists are seeking ultimate vanishing act"
Talk Shows: "Sunday Shutout: The Lack of Gender & Ethnic Diversity on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows" -- A study by Media Matters.

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

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Posted by Dan at 10:11 AM