Olddoc casts chary eye on tonight's special Council meeting.. Bernice notes businesses shuttered by North Avenue demolition.. Councilor Williams notes Rec's Easter Egg Hunt next Saturday..

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[PLAINFIELD TODAY]

• "Mapp administration sure to be quizzed on demolition tonight"

CLIPS is your daily roundup of links to blog posts and news about Plainfield or affecting Plainfielders. Begun in 2003 as an email newsletter to Plainfield city council members when I was Plainfield's public information officer, it was later offered to the general public by email and has been available as a blog since 2007. If you have questions, suggestions or tips, email me at plaindan@gmail.com.

NEWS --

Latino Empowerment:  "NJ councilwoman expands Latino empowerment sessions"

Asbury Park:  "Tutu 2.2 race benefits Boys & Girls Clubs"
Beer:  "New Demented Brewery opening in Middlesex boro"
Camden:  "NJ gives tax credits to developer who didn't pay loan"
Jay Jefferson Cooke:  "March Madness in full swing"
Hospitals:  "NJ's top ten paid hospital administrators"
Middlesex County:  "Sheriff denies paying bribe for her job"
Rutgers --

• "Douglass College prepares women for success"
• "Stringer defends $500K bonus, sticks up for Rutgers athletes"

South Plainfield:  "Teen's fundraising results in gravestones for family killed in fire"
Starbucks:  "Starbucks baristas to stop writing 'Race Together' on cups"

Christie for President

• "The prosecutor ponders Christie's spiteful side" -- Ledger editorial.

Auto Insurance:  "NJ once again has most costly auto insurance in US"
Double-dipping:  "After 16 years as double-dipper, cops retires to second pension"
Obamacare:  "Medicaid expansion states like NJ see surge in diabetes diagnoses"
Open Space Funds:  "Plans to divvy up Open Space funds cause tussle"
PARCC Tests --

• "How Pearson landed the deal to produce NJ's biggest test"
•  "Following the money behind NJ's most costly test"

RECENT BLOG POSTS --

[BERNICE] notes businesses shuttered by North Avenue demolition.

[OLDDOC] casts chary eye on tonight's special Council meeting.

[Mayor MAPP] news of the week.

[Councilor STORCH] Ledger headline unfair to Eric Jackson.

[Councilor WILLIAMS] notes Rec's Easter Egg Hunt next Saturday.

[DAVID] on North Avenue demolition mishap.

[JACKIE]  week in review includes Spring snow.

[JACKIE'S PHOTO BLOG] catches an empty train.

[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger] remembers Kathleen C. Collins.

[NOEL at PALS] Plainfield overcomes Christ the King.

[PLAINFIELD LATINO] Choose your tax preparer carefully.

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