Primary Day - Bernice: Polls open, independents file today; Ramadan fast begins.. Rebecca: Rushmore redux - Time for levity..

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[PLAINFIELD TODAY]

• "Get more rush voting the 'A Team' all the way"
  
  
• "Dem Primary --
• "The boldest and most honest thing Tracey Brown ever did"
• "Rebecca Williams brings community involvement to the table"
• "Charles McRae will truly represent the Third Ward"
• "Desperate, Tracey Brown turns to racist tactic"

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 --

Election:  "How unaffiliated voters can cast a ballot Tuesday"
Schools:  "$100K grant provides for Plainfield summer school"
Teachers:  "Plainfield's ten 'best and brightest' teachers honored"
Food Recall:   "Hostess recalls 710K cases of snack cakes and donuts"

Bloomfield:  "Town must pay $2.9M, 7 times more than it offered, for eminent domain property"
D-Day Remembered:  "Former Gov. Whitman sends students to Normandy"
Linden:  "Linden cadets arrive at Fleet Week in style"
Made in NJ:  "23 items made in the Garden State"
Newark:  "Redeployed police force targets crime hotspots"
Sports:  "Serena Williams now the highest paid female athlete"
Technology:  "Churches are using smartphones for prayer concerns, donations, volunteer signups and more"

2016 Candidates --

• "Chelsea campaigns for Hillary in NJ Tuesday" -- PolNJ | Ledger |
• "AP: Hillary clinches Dem nomination" -- Ledger | NYTimes | Politico |
• "Trump orders surrogates to intensify criticism of judge, journalists" -- NYTimes | Record |
• "GOP leaders acted cowardly, now racist Trump represents the party" -- WashPost.
• "Obama eager to stump for Hillary and shred Trump"
• "How Trump's favorite movie explains him"
• "Pelosi endorses Clinton"

Bridgegate --

• "Court mum on release of names" -- Ledger | Record |

Affordable Housing:  "Appeals court hears arguments over housing obligations"
Drug Treatment:  "Beds for the poor are disappearing in NJ"
Gas Tax:  "Professor weighs in on Fulop gas tax plan"
Horizon Blue Cross:  "Blocked by Sweeney, legislators approve weaker insurance regulation"
NJ Pensions:  "Dems pension funding push moves forward" -- PolNJ | Ledger |
NJ Transit:  "Commuters one step closer to getting seat on NJT board"


RECENT BLOG POSTS --

[BERNICE]  Polls open, independents file today; Ramadan fast begins.

[OLDDOC]   ponders lessons of the past for the future and endorses the local party nominees for office. (6/06/16)

[Mayor MAPP] Mayor Mapp squelches misleading Board of Ed election rumors. (4/11/16)

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

[Councilor WILLIAMS]  Bonnie Watson Coleman endorses Williams and McRae in Column A. (6/05/16)

[DAVID]  Plainfielders lead rally against violence. (6/04/16)

[JACKIE]  Jackie's week in review catches a vain pigeon. (6/05/16)

[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger]  Linda Carter endorses "A" eam; Rusmore Redux (you MUST see this!). (6/05/2016)

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

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