Bernice: Mayor's budget prompts queries; New appliance store on South Avenue; Save the date for Garden Club gala.. Councilors Storch and Rebecca on today's Ward 2 Family Fun Day.. Jackie: The Amazing Race 26 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 --
Mayor Mapp: "Baraka's new Black mayor's alliance adds financial 'muscle'"
NJ Dems: "Dems honor county chairs at AC event" -- No mention of Jerry Green?
State Aid: "Plainfield among towns receiving state aid grants"
Women's Conference; "Women's conference at Freedom Ministries today"
Cash Forfeiture: "Man at Phily airport has $50K seized by Feds after declaring no cash in bags"
Essex County College: "ECC graduates largest class ever"
Jersey City: "Ordinance introduced to create new historic district, first since 1970s"
Joint Base McGuire: "House passes defense bill with protections for McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst"
Morristown: "All Morristown police to wear body cameras"
Pension Padding: "Christie blasted for hiring Sayreville mayor"
Seton Hall: "Priest claim he lost campus ministry gig over pro-LGBT Facebook post"
Westfield --
- "Students art depicting police brutality sets off controversy"
- "Seven charged in credit card, ID theft ring"
Amtrak: "Booker, Menendez lobby for more safety funds for Amtrak"
Bail Reform: "NJ's chief justice touts 'significant' bail reform"
PARCC Tests: "NJ Senate won't consider PARCC opt-out bill"
Passenger Trains: "Rollout of train-slowing technology delayed by Congressional inaction, DOT says"
Policing: "Racist emails put Florida criminal cases in doubt"
Pumping Gas: "Self-serve gas pumping bill introduced"
SLAP Details: "Surprising amount of trash picked up by NJ prisoners yearly"
Obituary: "B. B. King, bluesman for generations"
RECENT BLOG POSTS --
[BERNICE] Mayor's budget prompts queries; New appliance store on South Avenue; Save the date for Garden Club gala.
[OLDDOC] A potpourri, including a cronyism review.
[Mayor MAPP] tells the tale of two demolition projects.
[Councilor STORCH] 2nd Ward Family Fun Day Satruday.
[Councilor WILLIAMS] invites all to a meet-and-greet for Barry Goode at PDO HQ tonight.
[DAVID] on to Nimes, Marseille and Geneva.
[JACKIE] The Amazing Race 26 blog party.
[JACKIE'S PHOTO BLOG] catches an empty train.
[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger] 2nd Ward Family Fun Day Satruday.
[NOEL at PALS] concludes with the 1st Team All-Efficiency for 2014-15.
[PLAINFIELD LATINO] on the nomination of a Latina to the CBAC.
[DOTTIE G SEZ] reposts a Blue Jersey story on Jerry Green's bizarre attack.
