New senior housing proposal.. Schools forum 'boisterous'.. Indicted pols' campaign funds..
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 Building Update" | "City Author on NJN"
Crescent Times: "Wanted: Forum Report"
Plainfield Trees: "Tulip Trees" -- A new entry on Plainfield's trees.
Councilors are blogging: Check out Cory Storch's NEW POST (here) and Rashid Burney (here).
Development: "New 80-unit senior complex envisioned"
Schools Forum: "Education forum draws large, and loud, audience"
Obituary: "Ahmad Rashad 'Shotty' Crittenden" -- Plainfield's 1st 2008 homicide.
Verizon: "Public Advocate opposes Verizon deregulation bid" -- Says your bills would go up. True.
Booker and Obama: Tom Moran: "Tossing the race card from the deck"
Development: "Montclair's Wellmont theater to reopen as concert venue" -- And the Strand? Stranded?
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Reminders:
- Plainfield Dairy Queen's 33rd Anniversary. Join the Albanese family in celebrating 33 years of service to the Plainfield area. 33% discount on all items -- Saturday, January 12.
- Saturday - January 12. Martin Luther King Celebration Events Begin:
- Noon: Memorial March. From City Hall to the Friends Meeting House. Sponsors: NAACP, POP and Elks. All welcome.
- 12:30 PM: 'Truth Crushed to Earth Will Rise Again'. Program by the People's Organization for Progress. At the Friends Meeting House, 225 Watchung Avenue. All welcome.
- 2 - 4 PM: 'Lifting As We Rise'. Young people's program. Door prizes and refreshments. Sponsor: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. At the Plainfield Public Library, 8th Street and Park Avenue. All welcome.
CENTRAL JERSEY
UC Jailbreak: "Escapees jailed, controversy continues" -- Ledger | NY Times | -- Romankow v. the Rev. Al.
Cemetery Desecration: "Four teens held in rampage" -- Ledger | NY Times | Gannett |
Drugs: "FBI takes drug gang's 'subsidiary' off the streets" -- Cranford?! Cranford.
EWR: "Union: Controller shortage imperils N.Y.-N.J. airports"
Newark: "2 Newark hospitals to close; Mayor Booker 'furious'"
New Brunswick: "City inspector admits to stealing funds" -- Ledger | Gannett |
North Plainfield: "Girl, 9, gives testimony about alleged sex abuse"
South Plainfield: "Politics as usual at first meeting"
STATE
Chris Christie --
- Congress: "Congress wants details of Ashcroft hiring" -- Ledger | PolitickerNJ |
- Justice Dept.: "Justice Department reviews monitoring deals"
Drivers' Licenses: "States Will Get More Time for Secure ID Plan"
Meadowlands Development: "DEP praises Trump work on landfills"
Tolls Plan: "Jerseyans could get break on toll hikes" -- Ledger | Gannett | Record |
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
2008 Primaries --
- Dems: "Obama Picks Up Kerry's Endorsement"
- GOP: "Hopefuls Clash in Debate"
- Issues: "Economy Slumps To the Top of the Campaign Agenda"
- Polling: "The NH Polls: Getting It Wrong" -- Andrew Kohut on how it happened.
- Punditry: John Farmer: "Blame pundits, not polls, for primary miscall"
Domestic Spying: "FBI Wiretaps Cut Over Unpaid Bills" -- They're deadbeats too?
Mortgage Banking: "Countrywide Seeks Rescue Deal" -- WSJ | NY Times |
Mortgage Fallout: "Giant Write-Down Is Seen for Merrill"
OF INTEREST
$2500 Cars: "India's $2500 Tata Nano hits the road"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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