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Sunday, January 6, 2008

Watch out for Jerry tomorrow.. Puzzling BOE meeting Tuesday.. Park Ave biz corridor.. St. Mary's makes NY Times..

PLAINFIELD


Plainfield Today:
Plain Talker: "Special BOE Meeting Tuesday"
Crescent Times: "Park Ave. business corridor" | "Public right-of-way"

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

St. Mary's Church: "3 Kings Transform a Church"

Exhibit: "In Newark, Remembering the Dead" -- Photographer Helen Stummer's show at Aljira.
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REAL ESTATE SUNDAY

SMALL PICTURE
Condos: "From Closet to Condo"
Mortgage Insurance: "Mortgage Insurance: More Tax Breaks"
Reverse Mortgages: "Changing a Home’s Value Into Hard Cash"
Selling: "Frustrated Sellers, Take Note"
BIG PICTURE
Meadowlands: "EnCap woes rise as Wachovia files to foreclose" -- Record | Ledger |
REITs: "A Defensive Strategy for REIT Investors"
 Mortgages: "US Mortgage Payment Index"
Troubled Mortgages: "Relief for Distressed Borrowers"
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" -- Week of 1/06/2008
Trulia: "Your Personal Real Estate Google"

WHAT'S HAPPENING
  • Reminders:
    • 'Dine Around Town' discount cards are also available at the Netherwood Auto Center, corner of South and Woodland Avenues. Proceeds benefit Library programs for children and adults. (See more here).

  • Today- 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

Newark: "Anatomy of a gang war"
South Plainfield: "Officials split on new truck route"
Union Twp.: "Court to decide Union's charter change petition battle"
Roselle Reorg: Big article in print, not online; may type up if I get time.

STATE

The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, January 06, 2008"

Corzine: "Crucial Year for Corzine"
Economy - OpEd, CN: "NJ economic outlook in 2008: Dicey" -- Rutgers guru Jim Hughes.
Energy - Editorial, SL: "Police the energy markets" -- Reregulate PSE&G?
Jersey City: "J.C. and Honeywell craft plan for bayfront cleanup" -- Chromium.
Legislature: "Fresh faces, many female, add diversity and depth to Statehouse"
Manalapan: "In Unlikely Part of the Country, a Huckabee Movement Is Born"
NJT: "New and Improved Stations Top List of Rail Projects to Benefit Riders"
Terror Insurance: "Some towns have terror insurance" -- Should Plainfield? Read on.
Toll Roads: "Corzine's $40B plan to take on state debt" -- Ledger | NY Times |

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


NATION / WORLD

2008 Primaries - N.H. --
OF INTEREST
Eco-Biz: "Can Burt’s Bees Turn Clorox Green?"

Dollars: "The Deluge Before the Dollar" -- The dollars before the Dollar.
 DVD Wars: "Warner Backs Blu-ray, Tilting DVD Battle"
Nonprofits: "Can Foundations Take the Long View Again?"

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

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Posted by Dan at 11:09 AM