Olddoc: Street cams kindle a potpourri.. Bernice on another lost day..

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[PLAINFIELD TODAY]

• "Joint boards meeting Saturday reviews development activity"
• "Stendergate: Linda quits Twitter. Wanna see why?"
  

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 --

Delayed Opening: Plainfield Public Schools, 90-minute delayed opening.

Frontiers:  "One-woman show portraying Harriet Tubman this weekend" -- Column by Jay Jefferson Cooke.
Stendergate --

• "Will Mahr run off the line with candidate backed by Mapp?"
• "Scotch Plains schocker: Stender proxies vote to Kennedy"

Highland Park:  "Town may raise age for buying cigarettes to 21"
Newark:  "Christie contract with super does not follow state law"
Policing:  "NJ town's police put on four-day workshop on Islam, Muslim culture"

Bridgegate --

• "Lobbying firm of former PA exec Samson takes financial hit"

Christie for President

• "New scandal for Christie? State confirms Exxon settlement"
• "Christie counsel had stake in Exxon Mobil"
• "Ex-official blasted for saying Christie aide 'took over' settlement" -- Politico | Ledger |
• "Sources: Christie's office often hands-on in cases like Exxon"
• "Lesniak calls for resignation of Acting AG over Exxon affair"
• "Excerpts detail state's case against Exxon"
• "Christie officials praise deal with Exxon"
• "Lesniak, Bramnick clash over Hoffman report on Exxon settlement"
• "Tittel: This is a bigger scandal than Bridgegate"

Hillary:  "Who knows? She could implode totally" -- Concern over having no other candidates in pool.
NJ Budget:  "Trooper unions sue Christie over shortchanged pension payments"
NJ Pensions:  "Healthcare costs are key to Christie's pension repairs"
Port Authority:  "Dems not budging on PA reforms"
Policing:  "How a dirty police force gets clean" -- Oakland, Cal. PD profiled.
Teaching:  "7 things you should know about proposed NJ teacher standards"
Workmen's Comp:  "What's an arm worth? What NJ pays for severed body parts"

Selma:  "GOP leaders skipping 50th anniversary event"

RECENT BLOG POSTS --

[BERNICE] on another lost day.

[OLDDOC]  Street cams kindle a potpourri.

[Mayor MAPP] advocates for the Fleet Manager position up tonight.

[Councilor STORCH] notes Council became a blame-free zone on Monday (for a while).

[Councilor WILLIAMS] Earned sick days ordinance up tonight.

[DAVID] offers a Throwback Thursday vid: Lt. Ken Reid on Sally Jesse Raphael.

[JACKIE] Survivor-World Apart blog party.

[JACKIE'S PHOTO BLOG] watching for subway rats?.

[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger] celebrates Mattiwilda Dobbs.

[NOEL at PALS] Plainfield overcomes Christ the King.

[PLAINFIELD LATINO] promotes Rutgers Latinas & Politics conference.

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