Bernice notes new apartment count exceeds 800.. Jackie: Week in review (with pigeon overlord) and BB17 live feeds into Sunday.. Rebecca posts on Writing and Memory, #1..

---

[PLAINFIELD TODAY]

• "Hundreds throng annual Mapp barbecue"

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 --

Plainfield Country Club --

• "Putting around Barclays tournament traffic"
• "Barclays entertains with more than just pro golfers"

Flight Delays:  "FAA says technical problem causes East Coast flight delays"
Road Work:  "Route 18 extension work continues in Piscataway"

A&P:  "A&P seeking to slash severance pay"
Cranbury:  "4th annual Halal Food Festival"
Kean U.:  "Kean Farm hosts first tomato-tasting event"
Maplewood:  "Buddhist monks create million-grain sand mandala" -- And then destroy it (here).
Trenton:  "Thousands attend 5th annual African American Cultural Festival"

Christie for President --

• "Poll: How will Christie's anti-marijuana stance affect his chances?"

2016 Candidates --

• "Hillary fires back at Jeb Bush on rise of ISIS"
• "Trump: Undocumented immigrants have to go"
• "Biden strategy for White House run taking shape"
• "Who has visited Iowa and NH the most?" -- See the travel tracker here.

Internet Spying --

• "NSA spying relies on AT&T's 'extreme willingness to help'" -- The original reporting.
• "Snowden documents outline AT&T, Verizon NSA surveillance partnerships"
• "AT&T helped US spy on Internet on a vast scale"

Juries:  "Exclusion of blacks from juries raises renewed scrutiny"

Obituary:  "Julian Bond, charismatic civil rights leader"


RECENT BLOG POSTS --

[BERNICE]  notes new apartment count exceeds 800.

[[OLDDOC]  A quicky on Council business, including vacating Old South Avenue. (8/15/15)

[Mayor MAPP]   reminds all of the 8th Annual Community BBQ. (8/13/15)

[Councilor STORCH]  on yard waste enforcement. (8/2/15)

[Councilor WILLIAMS]  posts on Writing and Memory, #1. (8/16/15)

[DAVID]   details a Plainfield connection to Straight Outta Compton, being released today. (8/13/15)

[JACKIE] Big Brother 17 live feeds into Sunday, plus week in review. (8/16/15)

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

[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger]  on W.E.B. DuBois. (8/6/15)

[PLAINFIELD LATINO]   notes PACHA's celebration of Ecuadorian Independence. (8/4/15)

[NOEL at PALS]  on Day 3 of the 19th Gee Gee Brown Tournament. (8/1/15)

[DOTTIE G SEZ]  Steven Colbert weighs in on the SCOTUS ruling. (6/27/15)

---