Bernice notes sick leave law fails.. Noel offers Fourth Team All-Efficiency for 2014-15.. Rebecca notes Mayor to be honored tomorow at Rotary dinner..

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[PLAINFIELD TODAY]

• "Paid Sick Days affair a lose-lose for everyone?"
•  Help reopen restaurant damaged in demolition" -- North Avenue's Mi Buenaventura.
  

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 --

Paid Sick Leave:  "Council votes down ordinance on second reading"

ACT-SO:  "ACT-SO steers African American students to success"
DUIs:  "Lawyers open their playbook on beating a DUI"
Hillside:  "Charlotte runs Jewell for mayor"
Matawan:  "Atheists drop fight to remove 'under God' from pledge"
Newark --

• "Residents speak out over 20 years of state control of schools"
• "Protesters rally after start of 250-mile march against police brutality"

Rutgers:  "Dean James Hughes and wife leaving $3.5M to RU"
SWATting:  "One arrested after SWAT scare at condo"
Union County: "Whites lose majority status, says Pew study"

Christie for President

• "Five reasons why Christie hasn't (yet) jumped into the race"
• "Five murky positions for Christie to clear up"
• "The gun rights case Christie can't ignore"
• "Poll: Almost 70% of Jerseyans think Christie would not make a good president"

Hillary --

• "Five things you may not know about Hillary and NJ"
• "Hillary outreach efforts frustrate supporters"

Medicaid:  "Under Obamacare, one fifth of NJ residents now covered"

RECENT BLOG POSTS --

[BERNICE]  notes sick leave law fails.

[OLDDOC]  on Mapp nominations; Green's ballot challenge.

[Mayor MAPP]  Green taking advantage and creating a distraction.

[Councilor STORCH] on what good government should look like.

[Councilor WILLIAMS]  Dem LGBT Caucus needs to call out homophobic comments by pols.

[DAVID] notes Hub Stine sports complex discussion tonight.

[JACKIE]  sees signs of Spring, finally.

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

[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger] notes Mayor to be honored tomorow at Rotary dinner.

[NOEL at PALS] offers Fourth Team All-Efficiency for 2014-15.

[PLAINFIELD LATINO] has moved to a new Web address.

[DOTTIE G SEZ] reposts a Blue Jersey story on Jerry Green's bizarre attack.

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