Bernice: Bella Vita Estates ready for tenants; Celebrate Independence Day Saturday.. Olddoc: SCOTUS's year.. Councilor Williams: Parade, concert, fireworks Saturday.. Jackie: BB18 live feeds into Thursday..

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[PLAINFIELD TODAY]

• "Plainfield celebrates on Saturday with parade, concert, fireworks"
  
• "Free outdoor movies begin tonight"

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 --

Farmers Market:  "Union County distributes free vouchers for Seniors"
Senior Housing:  "New senior housing on Roosevelt Avenue opens" -- 80 units.

Cast-Iron Skillets:  "Fashioning cast iron pans for today's cooks" -- Use my old skillets every day.
Corruption:  "Lakewood code inspector indicted for bribe-taking" -- Since 1997.
Duke Farms:  "Historic  Coach Barn restored"
ICE:  "Hudson County may end controversial partnership with ICE"
Jersey City:  "Allegations of racism fly over JC street art" -- The idea sounds cool, though.
Mercer County:  "Embattled parks director fired as corruption probe continues"
Newark:  "City finds elevated lead levels in 23 students"
New Providence:  "Microburst flips 2-ton van Tuesday evening" -- I heard the thunderstorm
NJ Transit:  "Controversial audio surveillance of NJT riders comes to quiet end"
Re-entry Programs:  "Prisoners at San Quentin get paid to code"

2016 Candidates --

• "Complaint charges Trump with violating campaign finance law" -- Bloomberg | Ledger | IBT |
• "Clinton reshuffles the swing state deck"
• "Battleground Bloodbath: Clinton leads Trump in seven swing states"
• "How much is Clinton leading Trump in NJ?"
• "Trump Institute offered get-rich schemes with plagiarized materials"

Bridgegate --

• "Now hidden evidence includes personal emails"
• "Christie's law firm says cellphone was returned to him"
• "Cellphone mystery: 5 new things in Biridgegate case"

Campaign Finance:  "NJ man admits giving Obama campaign illegal money from foreign politician"
Gas Pipelines:  "Penn East pipeline inspires Watson Coleman bill to regulate federal agency"
Guns --

• "Watson Coleman roundtable on gun violence sees cries for change" -- Ledger | Trentonian |
• "Pallone continues sit-in, gun violence discussion at his office"

Hospital Taxes:  "Effort to address hospital property taxes appears stuck in Legislature"
Sales Tax Deal --

• "NJ Senate Dems are opposed to gas and sales tax deal" -- Record | Ledger | PolNJ |
• "Christie pushes Senate to act on plan, says GOP behind him" | "Kean: Not so"
• "Christie on defense as gas, sales tax plan faces failure"
• "Fact-checking Christie claims on deal"

Transportation Trust Fund:  "NJ road plan ladles billions of new debt on old" -- Bloomberg | NJSpot |

Slavery:  "Who will tell the story of slavery?" -- The struggle for a National Museum of Slavery.


RECENT BLOG POSTS --

[BERNICE]   Bella Vita Estates ready for tenants; Celebrate Independence Day Saturday.

[OLDDOC]  SCOTUS's year. (6/29/16)

[Mayor MAPP]  Good police/community relations are vital to a community's well-being. (6/27/16)

[Councilor STORCH]  in support of Anderson-Hurtt-Pile for school board. (4/20/16)

[Councilor WILLIAMS]  Parade, concert, fireworks Saturday. (6/29/16)

[DAVID]  celebrates with the Cavaliers. (6/26/16)

[JACKIE]  BB18 live feeds into Thursday. (6/30/16)

[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger]  celebrates Katherine the Great (Dunham). (6/28/2016)

[NOEL at PALS]  YES basketball tournament, 6th-8th Grade Division. (3/26/16).

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