Bernice: City mulls recourse for 'lemon' ladder truck; Fencing removed from demolition site.. Councilor Williams: Will the real 'potty mouth' stand up?.. Jackie: Survivor/Worlds Apart season finale blog party..
[PLAINFIELD TODAY]
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 --
Union County College: "UCC's 2015 graduates"
Airbag Recall: "For drivers, confusion in airbag recall"
Foreclosures: "The news about foreclosures in NJ isn't getting much better"
Obituary: "Bettie L. Quin, taught at Hubbard and Jefferson schools"
Bergen County: "Body cams for sheriff's officers a 'proactive move'" -- Record | Ledger |
Eamail Scam: "Nigerian man gets three years for 'phishing' scam"
Farmers' Markets: "Beer could soon be on tap at farmer's markets"
Newark --
- "In unanimous vote, council OK's ID program for immigrants"
- "Crips gang used social media to scare rivals"
North Plainfield: "Man indicted in box-cutter cellphone robbery"
Meadowlands: "East Rutherford advances $675M bond for American Dream project"
Paterson: "Hundreds of teacher layoffs blamed on Christie's funding cuts"
Primary Races: "Old Bridge GOP in uproar over party chair's dumping of popular candidate"
Down The Shore: "Summer shore road construction guide"
World Trade Center: "Views from observatory are expansive"
Christie for President --
- "Will Christie make the cut for first GOP debate?"
- "CNN sets criteria for second GOP debate"
- "What Christie's financial disclosure doesn't disclose"
- "Chasing 2016 bid, Christie out of state nearly half of 2015, so far"
- "Christie's potential 2016 GOP rivals"
- "Christie talks Israel with Elie Wiesel"
- "Christie: GOP needs a candidate who has won difficult races before"
- "Prosecutors want to keep secret 1.5M pages of documents until trial" -- Record | Ledger | NYTimes |
Cyber Attacks: "Christie signs order to help protect NJ from cyber attacks"
Demographics: "NJ's fastest-growing and -shrinking towns"
Gay-to-striaght Therapy: "As NJ trial looms on 'therapy', more states ban practice"
NJ Pensions: "NJEA, in new ad, says pension crisis could lead to disaster"
SWATting: "Interactive map of NJ locations likely tied to nationwide hoaxes"
Tax Relief: "Too much money going to property tax relief?"
Gay Marriage Attitudes --
- "Study on gay marriage views retracted after allegations of fake data"
- "Growing support for gay marriage is not fake"
[BERNICE] City mulls recourse for 'lemon' ladder truck; Fencing removed from demolition site.
[OLDDOC] on the Council's demolition 'investigation'.
[Mayor MAPP] tells the tale of two demolition projects.
[Councilor STORCH] on what the Dem primary election is all about.
[Councilor WILLIAMS] Councilor Williams: Will the real 'potty mouth' stand up?.
[DAVID] posts photos of 2nd Ward Family Fun Day.
[JACKIE] Survivor/Worlds Apart season finale blog party.
[JACKIE'S PHOTO BLOG] catches an empty train.
[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger] posts pix of Family Fun Day.
[NOEL at PALS] concludes with the 1st Team All-Efficiency for 2014-15.
[PLAINFIELD LATINO] criticizes the Mapp administration.
[DOTTIE G SEZ] on the hidden hand behind recent trashy political mailings -- see here.