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PLAINFIELD

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Plainfield Today:

• "CSI Plainfield: PMUA's 2008 Calendar" -- Get your printable calendar here.

Plain Talker: "The Rubberstamp Syndrome"
Crescent Times: "The Political 'Babes'" | "Vote Reminder" | "FBI Data" |

Plainfield Trees: "Tulip Trees" -- A new entry the ongoing series on Plainfield's trees.
Councilors are blogging: Check out Cory Storch (here) and Rashid Burney (here).

City Council: "Council president sees policy changes in store"
Schools: "Interim schools chief plans community forum"
Tri-County Red Cross: "Tri-County Red Cross offers CPR courses"
YMCA: "Cold weather pushes homeless shelters to capacity"

School Funding --

• Constitutionality: "AG deems school plan constitutional"
• Hearings: "School funding clears hurdles" -- Ledger | Bergen Record | NY Times |
• Dissent: "Corzine's school-funding plan advances amid anger"
• Support: "Paterson mayor backs Corzine's school-funding plan"
• Tom Moran: "A quick, crazy way of passing legislation"
  

Hospitals: "Finances focus of hospital report"
Commuting: "PATH fare increase expected to be less than proposed"

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

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• Sunday - January 6. 12:30 PM. Post-Christmas Concert. Mezzo Grace Hackett of the Newark School of the Arts, and soprano Audrey Miller-Sidney join Alston Jack, who accompanies on the Trinidadian steel drum. A concert of 'Creole' carols, classical music and well-known holiday standards. At Grace Episcopal Church, East 7th Street and Cleveland Avenue. Info: (908) 756-1520 or www.graceplainfield.org. Public cordially invited.
  
  
• Tuesday - January 8. 7:30 PM. Act IV Productions: Auditions for 'Twelve Angry Jurors'. Planned as the community theater group's Spring show. Info: (908) 756-0750.
  

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CENTRAL JERSEY

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Newark: "Corporation counsel, business administrator expected to resign"
Port Elizabeth: "Huge marijuana haul found" -- High tech v. Low IQ?
Orange: "Senior high-rise fined for elevator woes"
Orange: "Hackett's federal bribery case delayed until March"
Somerville: "Officials plan community meetings on range of issues"
Jayson Williams Case: "Williams retrial delayed for appeal" -- Gannett | Ledger |


STATE

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Affordable Housing: "Report: 115,000 units will be needed in next 10 years"
Medicaid: "U.S. Curtailing Bids to Expand Medicaid Rolls"
UMDNJ: "More waste uncovered at UMDNJ"
Legislature --

• "Bereavement lawsuits contemplated"
• "Slavery apology bill gets committee's OK"
• "Taxes on patrons of Pru Center advance"
• "Nominee for state health commissioner approved"

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


NATION / WORLD

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Iowa Caucuses: "It's Obama and Huckabee" -- Ledger | NY Times | WSJ | WashPost (Obama)(Huckabee)
..... - Giuliani: John Farmer: "Rudy takes a major risk in skipping early votes"
CIA Tapes --

• The Tapes: "CIA in 2003 Planned Destruction of Tapes"
• The Veep: "Will Justice Go After Cheney?"

Pension Funds: "State Street Corp. Is Sued Over Fund Losses" -- Can state fund suits be far behind?


OF INTEREST

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One Laptop Per Child Project: "Intel Leaves Group Backing Education PCs"

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

BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |

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