Luring retail.. Memorial Day.. Campaign loophole: texting?.. Dual officeholding..
PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today: "Memorial Day II - A Remembrance of all who have fallen"
Memorial Day Reflection: Andrew Bacevich: "I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty."
Plain Talker: "Kitteh"
Crescent Times: "Historic District/Historic Preservation Commission"
Campaign Blogs (in alphabetical order): "Tony Rucker" | "Cory Storch"
22nd District: "Scutari faces challenge in Bill Campbell of Green Brook"
Cook School: "Drama club offering 'Miss Nelson' play"
Murder - SL: "Plainfield woman killed in Perth Amboy shootout"
.......... - CN: "City woman, assailant dead after shooting"
Retail: "Newark model for luring retailers: Safety plus incentives"
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REAL ESTATE SUNDAY
SMALL PICTURE
TOOLS
WHAT'S HAPPENING
CENTRAL JERSEY
29th District: "Caraballo fights uphill wihthout Big Steve's backing"
Bernards: "Anxious kids get first dip at new $500K water park"
Edison: "Edison primary 'circus' a huge field" -- 4 slots, 3 slates, 12 candidates.
Newark: "Battling Murder and Its Accomplice, Silence"
Tinton Falls: "Man Back Home After 3-Nation African Ordeal"
STATE
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, May 27, 2007"
2007 Primaries: "Primary will help reshape Trenton"
Budget: "To Incumbents, a Dull Budget Is a Good Budget"
Corzine: "Corzine emerges in public, to ovation"
Dual Officeholding: "Jersey Moves to End Its Dual-Office Tradition"
Historic Sites: "State aims to show off its overlooked historic sites"
Towns: Carlstadt: "In One Town, Intersections of Sacrifice"
..... - Jersey City: "Gerald McCann: You Throw Mud, He’ll Throw a Mountain"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Iraq - NYT: "Strife Foreseen in Iraq Exit, but Experts Split on Degree"
.......... - WP: "U.S. Security Contractors Open Fire in Baghdad" -- A euphemism for mercenaries, but responsible to whom?
OF INTEREST
Memorial Day: "First Decoration Day, 1865: Freed slaves marched to honor Union dead"
.......... - "Is a nation forgetting its past?"
Campaign Laws: "Text messaging opens loophole for skirting campaign laws"
Sunday Talk Shows: "Political talk: All white, all male, all the time"
Supreme Court: "Heroes of the courtroom"
Tuskegee Airmen: "Shade Lee: Airman battled segregation during World War II"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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Plainfield Today: "Memorial Day II - A Remembrance of all who have fallen"
Memorial Day Reflection: Andrew Bacevich: "I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty."
Plain Talker: "Kitteh"
Crescent Times: "Historic District/Historic Preservation Commission"
Campaign Blogs (in alphabetical order): "Tony Rucker" | "Cory Storch"
22nd District: "Scutari faces challenge in Bill Campbell of Green Brook"
Cook School: "Drama club offering 'Miss Nelson' play"
Murder - SL: "Plainfield woman killed in Perth Amboy shootout"
.......... - CN: "City woman, assailant dead after shooting"
Retail: "Newark model for luring retailers: Safety plus incentives"
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REAL ESTATE SUNDAY
SMALL PICTURE
Mortgages: "Closing a Loan Online"BIG PICTURE
Affordable Homes: "More affordable homes, please"
The Market - NYT: "It’s Spring. Somebody Tell the Buyers."
..... - Boston Globe: "Housing slump may rival late '80s"
..... - CNN Money: "Big drop in home prices predicted"
..... - National Ass'n of Realtors: "April Existing Home Sales" (PDF)
Key data:Mortgages: "US Mortgage Payment Index"
April Annual Sales Rate down 2.6% vs. last month
April Annual Sales Rate down 10.7% vs. last year
April Inventory up 10.4% vs. last month
April Inventory up 23% vs. last year
April Months Supply up 13.5% vs. last month
April Months Supply up 37.7% vs last year
TOOLS
Buy or Rent?: "Cost Comparison Tool" -- Enter your own values to calculate which is better, buying or renting. A really neat tool!
Ledger: "Home Finder" and "Real Estate" sections online.
Courier: "Real Estate" section online.
NYTimes: "This Week's Residential Sales Around the Region"
Trulia: "Your Personal Real Estate Google"
WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Memorial Day - 15 Towns' observances listed in the Ledger; none listed for Plainfield; didn't spot ANY listings in the Courier. Plainfield's ceremony is traditionally at 10 AM at the War Memorial, 7th & Watchung.
- Wednesday. May 30. 7 PM. Ward 2 Council Candidate Forum: Rucker & Storch. Sponsor: Crescent Area Neighborhood Ass'n. At the Plainfield Public Library, 8th Street and Park Avenue. All invited, regardless of party affiliation or registration status.
- Thursday. May 31. 6:30 - 8:30 PM. Do You Hear What I Hear? Do You See What I See? Self Image and the Media. Plainfield Public Library. 8th Street at Park Avenue. Sponsor: Nubian Union and McDonald's-Plainfield. FREE.
- Saturday. June 2. 9 AM - 3 PM. 20th Annual FUSP Garage Sale. Household items, tools, books and other treasures. First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, 724 Park Avenue. Info: (908) 756-0570 or www.fusp.org.
- Saturday. June 2. 11 AM - 3 PM. Shakespeare In Bloom. Tours of the Shakespeare Garden and three private residential gardens. Music by members of the PSO. Boutique, plant sale, refreshments. Sponsor: Plainfield Garden Club. Tickets available at Swain Gallery, 7th & Watchung and Coldwell Banker Realtors, Westfield. $15/person. Funds raised support the Shakespeare Garden.
- Sunday. June 3. 2 PM. In Praise of Porches: How porches influenced life in Victorian Plainfield. Sponsor: Historical Society of Plainfield. At: The Pillars B&B, 922 Central Avenue. Refreshments will be served.
- Monday. June 4. 7 PM. Crescent Area Neighborhood Ass'n. Potluck and Meeting. 829 Park Avenue (corner of East 9th Street). "If you own, rent, work, or are just fond of the Crescent Area Historic District and you would like to see and participate on the future shaping steps for the Neighborhood Association, please come to this meeting." -- Organizer Maria Pellum in Crescent Times.
- Tuesday. June 5. 6 AM - 8 PM. Primary Election. Democrats and Republicans vote for candidates for the general election. Dems also vote for County Committee members. Registered voters who have no declared party affiliation may do so at the sign-in table and vote in the primary. At your district polling location. Info, City Clerk's office: (908) 753-3222.
- Wednesday. June 6. 9 AM - 12:30 PM. Urban Schools - Public Will. Conference on urban schools by the Public Education Institute of Rutgers. BOE member Christian Estevez will be a panelist. Larry Leverett will moderate. FREE, but advance registration required.
CENTRAL JERSEY
29th District: "Caraballo fights uphill wihthout Big Steve's backing"
Bernards: "Anxious kids get first dip at new $500K water park"
Edison: "Edison primary 'circus' a huge field" -- 4 slots, 3 slates, 12 candidates.
Newark: "Battling Murder and Its Accomplice, Silence"
Tinton Falls: "Man Back Home After 3-Nation African Ordeal"
STATE
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, May 27, 2007"
2007 Primaries: "Primary will help reshape Trenton"
Budget: "To Incumbents, a Dull Budget Is a Good Budget"
Corzine: "Corzine emerges in public, to ovation"
Dual Officeholding: "Jersey Moves to End Its Dual-Office Tradition"
Historic Sites: "State aims to show off its overlooked historic sites"
Towns: Carlstadt: "In One Town, Intersections of Sacrifice"
..... - Jersey City: "Gerald McCann: You Throw Mud, He’ll Throw a Mountain"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Iraq - NYT: "Strife Foreseen in Iraq Exit, but Experts Split on Degree"
.......... - WP: "U.S. Security Contractors Open Fire in Baghdad" -- A euphemism for mercenaries, but responsible to whom?
OF INTEREST
Memorial Day: "First Decoration Day, 1865: Freed slaves marched to honor Union dead"
.......... - "Is a nation forgetting its past?"
Campaign Laws: "Text messaging opens loophole for skirting campaign laws"
Sunday Talk Shows: "Political talk: All white, all male, all the time"
Supreme Court: "Heroes of the courtroom"
Tuskegee Airmen: "Shade Lee: Airman battled segregation during World War II"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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