Muhlenberg: Insult, fact-tweaking?.. Jerry calls Bernice.. Change coming to schools.. Planning Bd tonight..
PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today:
Plainfield Plaintalker: "New approach, personnel changes coming" | "A chat with Jerry"
Crescent Times: "Planning Board tonight" -- Agenda. | "Public statements by BOE members"
Doc's Potpourri:
- "Muhlenberg Closing: State Regs" -- olddoc wonders if there has been a tweaking of facts or procedures.
- "MRMC: July 9"
Plainfield Trees: The current post by Plainfield tree guru Greg Palermo is the "Sweet Bay Magnolia".
Councilors are blogging: Councilor Cory Storch starts a series on 'Pay-to-Play' with an instalment on the 'Corruption Tax' (here) and Councilor Rashid Burney writes (here).
NJT: "Passes $1.7B budget with no fare increase"
Cost-cutting: "Towns study 4-day workweek to cut costs" -- Memo to Administration and Council: Budget-time cometh.
Workplace Etiquette: "Christ the King's unorthodox approach to education"
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Tomorrow - July 11. 5:30 PM. 'Save Muhlenberg' Rally. As Commissioner Howard's decision is awaited, Solaris continues moves to dismantle. At the corner of Randolph Road and Park Avenue. All are welcome.
- Saturday - July 12. 5 - 7 PM. duCret School of Art Winners Exhibit. Selections from winners of the 2008 juried fine art show on exhibit at an opening reception. The exhibit runs through July 31. At Swain Gallery, corner of Watchung Avenue and East Seventh Street.
CENTRAL JERSEY
Bound Brook: "Councilman hopes to get illegal-immigrant crackdown on ballot"
Green Brook: "Official charged with misconduct in use of gas card"
Hillside: "State Polilce boosts presence on Rt. 22"
Kean U.: "Union turns to Corzine in dispute with Kean"
Linden: "Four houses on one block struck by gunfire"
Rutgers: "Cost woes might cut stadium" -- Ledger | Gannett
STATE
Katz v. CWA: "Katz turns to leaflets in fight over ouster"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
2008 Campaigns --
- Obama: "Jackson regrets vulgar Obama comment" -- Those open mikes again.
- McCain: "Jet tanker re-do might hurt McCain's bid"
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac: "Stocks tumble over fears about mortgage guarantors" -- Quasi-public entities seriously mismanaged. What's new.?
OF INTEREST
Obituary: "Dorian Leigh, put the 'super' in 1940s-50s modeling"
Art & Women Prisoners: "Painting with Perspective" -- A profile of Maria de Mos, whose son Mark is an artist well-known in Plainfield circles.
e-Prescriptions: "More doctors using electronic prescriptions"
Online Privacy: "FTC says it won't intervene to protect online privacy"
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