Bernice: Highlights from joint land use meeting; Downtown update; Sick leave up for final passage.. Olddoc on Saturday's joint land use groups meeting; Thursday's GOP debate.. Jackie's week in review features a shot of Park Avenue Oro.. Noel at PALS live blogs Yale vs. Columbia..
[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 --
Asm Jerry Green: "Green receives humanitarian award"
Life Sciences: "Plainfielder Beki Perkins named VP for government affairs at BioNJ"
Water for Flint: "Plainfield sends 500 cases of water to Flint" -- With video.
NJ Transit: "NJT Unions rally in Woodbridge as strike deadline looms"
Daylight Savings Time: "When is DST?"
Oreos: "Interesting facts for National Oreo Day"
College Football: "Study links NCAA tackle rules to increase in lower-body injuries"
Duke Farms --
- "Judge OKs demolition of Duke Mansion" -- Courier | Ledger |
- "Demolition of mansion began Saturday morning"
Newark: "Should Booker be liable for watershed's financial losses?"
Robotics: "Teens battle for castle in medieval-themed contest"
SBA Loans: "$5.4M to 29 Black businesses in NJ is a 74% increase over previous year"
South Plainfield: "Samsonite to pay $1.8B for Tumi" -- Allen Mintzer, you died too young!
Theater: "Two sisters navigate 100 years of Black history in 'Having Our Say'"
'Super Saturday' Primaries --
- "March 5 Primaries: Maps and numbers"
- "Cruz spois Trump's Super Saturday" -- Politico | NYTimes |
- "Sanders takes two from Clinton" -- Politico | NYTimes |
- "CPAC Straw Poll results" -- Politico | NYTimes | Ledger |
- "Trump does about-face on torture, killing terrorists' families"
- "Trump: Laws should be extended to allow waterboarding"
- "Carson officially leaves race" -- Ledger | NYTimes | Politico |
- "Rank and file tell GOP elite: We're sticking with Trump"
- "Clinton offers economic plan focused on jobs" -- Politico | NYTimes |
- "Why his presidential campaign failed - in his own words"
- "Guess who WashPost said had worst week in Washington?"
- "Time to end the legal ripoff" -- Editorial, Ledger.
Banks --
- "Fed proposed new rule capping business between banks"
- "Feds decide not to purse charges against Citibank execs over mortgage bonds" -- As former NYC mayor Ed Koch once remarked, 'A few of them need to be lined up against the wall and shot'.
NJ Pensions: "Big pension battle to hit NJ Supremes on March 14"
NJ Supremes: "Christie vows 'ramifications' against Sweeney in court fight"
Policing: "The $200k Club" -- NJ's highest paid police chiefs.
Public Records: "NJ Supremes to decide what police records should be public"
RECENT BLOG POSTS --
[BERNICE] Highlights from joint land use meeting; Downtown update; Sick leave up for final passage.
[OLDDOC] on Saturday's joint land use groups meeting; Thursday's GOP debate.. (3/05/16)
[Mayor MAPP] announces the changed State of the City information. (1/20/16)
[Councilor STORCH] Development in Plainfield: Looking into the future. (2/07/16)
[Councilor WILLIAMS] Rebecca for councilor at-large. (3/02/16)
[DAVID] has a 'sit down' interview with BOE candidate James Plummer. (2/29/16)
[JACKIE] week in review features a shot of Park Avenue Oro. (3/06/16)
[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger] celebrates author Octavia Estelle Butler. (2/24/2016)
[NOEL at PALS] live blogs Yale vs. Columbia. (3/05/16)
