Plainfield's subprime picture.. BOE: Jobs tonight.. Many liquor licenses unresolved.. 'Save Muhlenberg' Thursday..
PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today:
Plainfield Plaintalker: "Jobs top BOE agenda tonight" | "Many liquor licenses still unresolved"
Crescent Times: "BOE: A 'questions' slideshow"
Doc's Potpourri: "Council meeting: 6/16/08" | "ESP" -- Is someone up there reading olddoc?
Save Muhlenberg: "Closure aftermath: Longer waits, diminished care"
Plainfield Trees: Tree enthusiast Greg Palermo features: "Flowering Dogwoods".
Councilors are blogging: Councilor Cory Storch asks whether Plainfield Democrats can 'kiss and make up' (here) and Councilor Rashid Burney (here).
Save Muhlenberg: "Protesters try theater to save hospital" -- Thursday; more tomorrow.
Heritage Show Choir: "Plainfield choir snags top award at Gospelfest"
Hospitals: "Hospitals' bottom line target of legislation" -- The Assemblyman doesn't even get a mention by name. Tsk.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Summer Creativity: Check out the great summer offerings of our own duCret School of Art here. Go ahead, unlock the artist in you!
- Tomorrow - June 18. 7:30 PM. Cultural & Heritage Commission. City Hall Library. Public invited.
- Thursday - June 19. Noon - 2 PM. Music in the Plaza. Live music, featuring Breez. Sponsored by the Division of Recreation, the Chamber of Commerce and the city's Economic Development Office. At the County Office Building Plaza, Front Street and Park Avenue. FREE.
- Thursday - June 19. 6 PM. Juneteenth Celebration. At Washington Community School, 427 Darrow Avenue. Parking in Spooner Avenue lot. FREE.
- Thursday - June 19. 8 PM. Planning Board. City Hall Library. Public invited.
- Friday - June 20. 10 AM - 3 PM. Juneteenth Celebration. At the Plainfield Senior Center, 305 East Front Street.
- Saturday - Jun 21. 7 PM. Olympia's Daughters: Living Out Loud. A new program in which many singers of this women's a cappella group tell their coming out stories, weaving them together with healing and empowering music. At the United Church of Christ, 220 West 7th Street (corner of Madison Avenue). FREE.
CENTRAL JERSEY
Bound Brook Tax Revaluation: "Property assessments focus of special meeting"
North Plainfield: "Gas station fined for pumping up prices"
Scotch Plains: "Family businesses reach third generation" -- Including John's Meat Market, founded in Plainfield in 1939.
Woodbridge: "Woodbridge's public buildings are going solar" -- And Plainfield's?
STATE
FY2009 Budget: "Gov, Dems shake on a $32.8B budget" -- But transportation solution waits.
Affordable Housing: "Affordable housing bill called curse or blessing" -- Getting rid of RCAs.
Union Embezzlement: "Ex-union official admits embezzling $829,000"
School Super Payouts: "Assembly OKs limit on school payouts"
Witness Intimidation: "Witness-Safety Bill Passes in New Jersey"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
2008 Campaigns --
Obama:Congressional 'Ethics': "Congressman calls for mortgage inquiry" -- How many got low interest 'VIP' loans?
McCain:
- Michelle: Michelle is featured on the cover of this week's Newsweek. You'll have to buy a copy, not online yet (of course it's going to be a collector's item!).
- The Smears: "Fight The Smears" -- Website -- found courtesy of TMV -- details the smears, who's peddling them, and the truth about them.
- Age: "Are Dems talking about McCain’s age in ‘code’?"
- Funding: "DNC to again file suit on McCain's matching funds"
- Paul Mulshine: "McCain's at war with himself"
Guantanamo: "Wrongly jailed detainees found militancy at Guantanamo"
U.S. Attorney Firings: "Grand Jury Said to Look at Attorneys’ Dismissals"
OF INTEREST
Fact or Fiction?: "The Web Time Forgot" -- Trapped in 3x5 cards, he imagined the Web.
Health: "Hypothermia: The chilling way to treat a patient"
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