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PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today: (Click HERE to read the posts serially, otherwise take your pick below. There are more stories up than posted below, and more go up during the day. -- Dan)
Plain Talker: "Senior Center Groundbreaking"
Crescent Times: Maria is 'recharging her batteries' and will be back later in July.
Plainfield Website Watch: Today is Day 9 since announced launch date and no new site.
Body in Field Avenue House - SL: "Body found in Plainfield house"
Public Housing: "'Off-duty' cops on patrol in Plainfield public housing"
Election Fraud: "New bill targets number of absentee ballots one person can deliver"
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REAL ESTATE SUNDAY
SMALL PICTURE
Design: "Click Your Way to an Architect-Designed House"BIG PICTURE
Hoboken: "High-End Amenities, Lesser Location"
Home Rehab Scams: "Shoddy repairs raise homeowners' concern"
Lawn Sprinklers: "Sprinkler Systems: Watering Made Easy"
Log Homes: "Assembling a Log Cabin"
Somerset County: "Housing proposals drop in Somerset"
Mortgage Language: "Simplification: A Complex Job"
Mortgages: "US Mortgage Payment Index"
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", "Premier Estates" 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
- Thursday. July 12. 8:30 AM - Noon. United Way Countywide Community Forum. Helping identify the County's needs, gaps, and assets in health, education and human services. Sponsor: United Way of Greater Union County. Location: Downs Hall, Kean U. Registration recommended. Info: (908) 353-7171 x103 or susan.coen@uwguc.org
CENTRAL JERSEY
Newark - 1967 -- Make this your main page for 1967 coverage.
- Ledger: "Crossroads Pt. 1: Before 1967, a gathering storm"
- OpEd: "PBS distorts Newark riot history"
- Editorial: "Let Newark remember the past and rise above it"
- NYT: "With 40-Year Prism, Newark Surveys Deadly Riot" -- With a slideshow.
New Brunswick: "Center tackles threat of gangs"
North Plainfield: "Farmers market opens in North Plainfield"
Piscataway: "Friends searching for West 4th Street assault victim's cat"
West Orange: "To Save Energy, Installing Light Bulbs That Don’t Work"
STATE
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, July 08, 2007"
Civil Unions: "In denying benefits, firm says civil union not marriage's equal"
'Live Earth' Concert: "Pick of the litter: Crowd cleans parking lot"
Long Beach Island: "A Keeper: Surfer’s Island Trailer Park"
NJT: "Multilevel Train Rolls Out, Changing Little for Riders"
OPRA+ at Five: "The ways to retrieve information changing" -- Part 5 of 5.
Taxes: "Meaning of lower taxes is debated"
Turnpike: "Parties Sparring Over Monetization Plan"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Bush: "Poll: Much of US favors Bush impeachment" -- 45% for, 46% against; Cheney: 54% - 40%.
Attorneygate: "White House Will Deny New Request In Attorneys Probe"
Bush & Libby: Dan Froomkin: "The Clinton-Did-It Flimflam"
Colombia: "Alabama coal company accused of bankrolling killer right-wing militias"
GOP Candidates: "Not all would put a heroic sheen on Thompson's Watergate role"
Iran: "Regime-Change Think Tank Opens in DC" -- It's déjà vu all over again.
Iraq: "Administration Shaving Yardstick for Iraq Gains"
OF INTEREST
UFO Festival: "At Roswell Festival, Doubt Is an Alien Concept"
The '5-second Rule': "That Dropped Doughnut: How Soon, and How Often, Will It Come Back Up?"
Latin Mass: "Pope Removes Restrictions On Use of Old Latin Mass"
Lead Paint: "Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity"
Wimbledon: "Venus takes her fourth"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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