Red Cross leaving?.. Budget amended, hearing set.. Naked truckers, rowdy cops and gentrification..
PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today: Plainfield Plaintalker: "Council Introduces Amendments, Sets Hearing"
Crescent Times: "Police presence and the budget" | "Are we losing the Red Cross?"
Plainfield Trees: "American Holly" -- New entry on Plainfield's trees.
Councilors are blogging: Check out Cory Storch (here) and Rashid Burney on the Bikini Bar (here).
McGreeveys: "For warring McGreeveys, time increases acrimony"
Letter, CN: Raquel Y. Horn: "Letter-writer's accusation of race-based voting is insulting"
Jayson Williams: "Six years later: Trial still not over"
Policing: "Less-lethal weapons endorsed for police"
Municipal Bonds: "Debt crisis spreads to US municipalities" | "Municipalities face jump in borrowing costs"
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
CENTRAL JERSEY
Bound Brook: "Property revaluation in Bound Brook"
Fanwood: "Children's Specialized offers sign-language course for adults"
East Orange: "E. Orange facing a hike in school tax" -- Abbott funding loss; $722K increase.
Maher Terminals: "Mortgage crisis turns sale of shipping terminal into $286M disaster"
Roselle Park: "Mediation on housing plan to go into June"
STATE
Corzine's Toll Plan --
Lautenberg: "Lautenberg on Corzine: What rift?"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
2008 Primaries --
Iraq: "Ending Impasse, Iraq Parliament Backs Measures"
Mortgage Mess--
OF INTEREST
Clemens & Steroids: "For Clemens, No Joy Found in Testimony" -- Ledger | NYTimes |
Diabetes: "Diabetes Treatment Risk Not Found in 2nd Study"
Love: "If passion's growing, the brain's glowing"
Pope at Yankee Stadium: "In Jersey, chosen few get tickets for papal Mass"
'Stimulus' Rebates: "How to get your tax-rebate cash from Uncle Sam"
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Plainfield Today: Plainfield Plaintalker: "Council Introduces Amendments, Sets Hearing"
Crescent Times: "Police presence and the budget" | "Are we losing the Red Cross?"
Plainfield Trees: "American Holly" -- New entry on Plainfield's trees.
Councilors are blogging: Check out Cory Storch (here) and Rashid Burney on the Bikini Bar (here).
McGreeveys: "For warring McGreeveys, time increases acrimony"
Letter, CN: Raquel Y. Horn: "Letter-writer's accusation of race-based voting is insulting"
Jayson Williams: "Six years later: Trial still not over"
Policing: "Less-lethal weapons endorsed for police"
Municipal Bonds: "Debt crisis spreads to US municipalities" | "Municipalities face jump in borrowing costs"
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Reminder:
- Black History Month. Every Sunday in February, 10 AM. Special Black History Month programs at United Church of Christ - Congregational, 220 West 7th Street. Readings, dance, special music, guest speakers. On Feb. 24, a sumptuous feast of Southern delicacies will follow the program. All are invited.
- Saturday - February 16. 11 AM - 3 PM. Charity Jazz Brunch Fundraiser. (Brunch served 11:30 - 2:30.) Sponsored by the Plainfield/Scotch Plains chapter, National Council of Negro Women. At l'Affaire, Route 22 East in Mountainside. Proceeds benefit mentoring and educational support for young people. $55/person. Tickets must be purchased by Saturday, Feb. 15. Info: Barbara Page, (908) 405-3408.
- Saturday - February 16. 8 PM - Midnight. Jitterbug Jive: A Benefit Celebrating 88 Years of the Plainfield Symphony. Featuring the jumpin' rhythms of Carrie Jackson and her Sultans of Swing. Dancing, live and silent auctions, open bar, light fare. Formal, casual or Swing era attire. $88/person. Get tickets by calling (908) 561-5660 or email info@plainfieldsymphony.org.\
- Wednesday - February 20. 7:30 PM. Cultural & Heritage Commission. City Hall Library. Public invited.
- Wednesday - February 20. 6 - 8 PM. Relay For Life 2008 Kickoff Party. Join in Plainfield's 2nd Annual event, an overnight celebration of hope, progress and answers -- raising funds and awareness. Find out how to honor survivors, remember those we've lost and help in the fight against cancer. At Shiloh Baptist Church Community Center, 517 West 4th Street. RSVP by Feb. 13 to (973) 736-7771 x203 or email farrah.stephenson@cancer.org. Plainfield's Relay for Life 2008 will take place June 7-8 at Hub Stine Field. See the website here: www.events.cancer.org/RFLplainfieldNJ.
CENTRAL JERSEY
Bound Brook: "Property revaluation in Bound Brook"
Fanwood: "Children's Specialized offers sign-language course for adults"
East Orange: "E. Orange facing a hike in school tax" -- Abbott funding loss; $722K increase.
Maher Terminals: "Mortgage crisis turns sale of shipping terminal into $286M disaster"
Roselle Park: "Mediation on housing plan to go into June"
STATE
Corzine's Toll Plan --
- Impact: "Relying on New Jersey roads, and fearing higher tolls"
- Dems: "Senate Democrats look for toll hike alternatives"
- GOP: "GOP leaders say toll plan is probably unconstitutional"
- OpEd, Ledger: Mary Forsberg: "How to raise $2.8B without borrowing"
Lautenberg: "Lautenberg on Corzine: What rift?"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
2008 Primaries --
- John Farmer: "Clinton running out of tracks to derail Obama freight train"
- Analysis: "Obama’s Lead Shifts Focus of Campaign" -- Clinton camp prepared to use 'incendiary' techniques.
- Obama: "Obama’s Edge: His Wife Michelle"
- Clinton: "Clinton Scrambles to Reverse Obama's Momentum"
Iraq: "Ending Impasse, Iraq Parliament Backs Measures"
Mortgage Mess--
- Probes: "FBI, SEC Join Complex Probe of Housing Crisis"
- OpEd - Eliot Spitzer: "Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime" -- Former NY Attorney General, now governor.
OF INTEREST
Clemens & Steroids: "For Clemens, No Joy Found in Testimony" -- Ledger | NYTimes |
Diabetes: "Diabetes Treatment Risk Not Found in 2nd Study"
Love: "If passion's growing, the brain's glowing"
Pope at Yankee Stadium: "In Jersey, chosen few get tickets for papal Mass"
'Stimulus' Rebates: "How to get your tax-rebate cash from Uncle Sam"
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