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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Plainfield cop's son shot.. Busts in Grove St. homicide.. Cop contract.. Courier: Less for more soon?..

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: "Police Contracts Top Council News" | "Three Accused in Homicide"
Crescent Times: "My wish list for the BOE"

 Plainfield Trees: "Red, the color of health: Sourwoods, Dogwoods, Sweetgums"

Murder: "Three arrested in bias murder of immigrant" -- Ledger | Courier | AP |
Shooting: "Plainfield cop's son shot by Roselle police" -- Ledger | NYTimes | -- Update: "Boy remains critical"
People's Organization for Progress: "4 police brutality protesters arrested" -- At Front and Park.
Playwright Alert!: "Kean seeks plays from NJ playwrights"
Red Cross: "Red Cross collecting turkeys, holiday food"
Santana's Restart Program: "After tragedy, city family starts nonprofit group"
Letter - CN: Grace Arnold: "Choose a woman president, but not the one running" -- Condi? Condi.

Air Traffic: "Plane Rerouting Landing in Court"
Jena 6 Trial: "Jena trial will open to public" -- The media sued when the judge tried to keep the trial closed.
Looking Back: "A way under the river" -- The Holland Tunnel opens.

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REAL ESTATE SUNDAY

SMALL PICTURE
Bayonne: "Coming Soon: Affordable Views"
Home Safety: "Preventing Shocks and Electrical Fires"
Hopewell Borough: "It’s in New Jersey, but It Screams Vermont"
Mortgage Insurance: "Mortgage Insurance: Is It Worth the Cost?"
Remodeling: "Scaling Back Remodeling Projects"
Renters: "As Owners Feel Mortgage Pain, So Do Renters" -- Unnoticed casualties.
Styles: "Greek Revival: Kind of Classical"

BIG PICTURE
Subprime Mess: "As Bank Profits Grew, Warning Signs Went Unheeded"
Staging A Recovery: "Should Bank Regulators Force Writedowns?" -- You gotta read the comments, too, if you want to understand what's going on.
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" -- 11/15/2007.
Trulia: "Your Personal Real Estate Google"

WHAT'S HAPPENING
  • Reminders:
    • Library's Food-for-Fines drive under way thru December 7 -- details here.
    • PEP Community Forum set for Nov. 30 -- submit your question by email here.
    • Van Wyck Brooks HD's 'Old-Fashioned Christmas' House Tour -- Advance ticket info here.

  • Today - November 18. 1 - 4 PM. Plainfield Humane Society's 'Pet Pictures With Santa'. Bring dogs, cats and kids to have pictures taken with Santa, and visit Santa's workshop. $30 donation gets three poses either on disc or emailed. Photos by Lori Fleissner. Sponsor: Plainfield Area Humane Society. At: Best Friends Pet Resort, 825 Rt 22 West (Wilson Avenue exit). Info (908) 754-0300.

  • Monday - November 19. 7:30 PM. City Council Agenda Session. City Hall Library. 515 Watchung Avenue.

  • Wednesday - November 21. 6:45 - 8:45 PM. Wednesdays Are For Poetry. Poetry workshop and readings. At the Plainfield Public Library, 8th Street and Park Avenue. FREE.

  • Wednesday - November 21. 7:30 - 9 PM. New Horizons College Club. Helping high school students prepare for college. See Club website here. At Washington Community School, 427 Darrow Avenue.

  • Wednesday - November 21. 8 PM. City Council Business Meeting. City Council Chambers/Courthouse. Watchung Avenue and East 4th Street.

  • Thursday - November 22. 11 AM. Annual Thanksgiving Game: Plainfield at Westfield.

  • Friday - November 23. 8 PM. Theater: Over the River and Through the Woods. A family comedy. Presented by Act IV Productions. At First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, 724 Park Avenue. $15. Info and reservations: (908) 756-0750 (press 5 and leave message if no one answers).

  • Saturday - November 24. 8 PM. Theater: Over the River and Through the Woods. A family comedy. Presented by Act IV Productions. At First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, 724 Park Avenue. $15. Info and reservations: (908) 756-0750 (press 5 and leave message if no one answers).
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CENTRAL JERSEY

Comic NJ: "From Trenton to Piscataway, a Virtual Tour of the State for Laughs"
Middlesex County: "Middlesex Democrats lick their wounds"
Newark: "How the steady decline of one house haunted Newark" -- 27 Tillinghast.
Piscataway: "Civil Air Patrol, CERT emergency personnel stage drill"
Theater: "The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith" -- At Trenton's Mill Hill Playhouse.


STATE

The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, November 18, 2007"

Affordable Housing: Fran Wood: "Mt. Laurel plan could be win-win"
BPU's Secret Bank Account: "Whistle-blower suit to be costly"
Property Taxes: "Tax hikes smallest in 6 years, but Corzine goal not met"
Rutgers: "Rutgers defeats Pitt"
Teen Drivers: "N.J. searches to make teen drivers safer" -- Setting up a 'driving contract'.
Thanksgiving Friday: "Workers: Gov's a Thanksgiving Grinch"
Utilities: "N.J. may finally enact 'cap-and-trade' law"

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


NATION / WORLD

2008 Primaries - Dems: "CNN and the 'Diamonds or Pearls' Question"
Fired US Attorneys: "Fired Attorneys Build Case Against Gonzales"


OF INTEREST

Surnames: "The Garcias Are Catching Up to Joneses" -- Search for ranking of your last name.
Death Penalty: "Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate"
DNA Analysis: "Experts Advise a Grain of Salt With Mail-Order Genomes, at $1,000 a Pop"
Flu: "Jersey researchers seeking a 'universal vaccine'"
Identity Theft: "Why Must ID Security Be So Hard?" -- Consumers Union privacy site is here.
Product Safety --
 Soccer: "Hoping (Dreaming?) of Soccer as National Pastime"
StoryCorps: "Speaking Volumes: Corps curriculum" -- The national oral history project.


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

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Posted by Dan at 9:36 AM