Noel at PALS: Week 1 - Mid-State 38 Conference Top 10.. Jackie: BB18 live feeds into Thursday evening.. Rebecca: Plainfield Plays Tennis free event Sept. 25..

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[PLAINFIELD TODAY]

• "Plainfield photographer captures Plainfield wildlife"
  

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 --

Schools --

• "Former Elizabeth coach John Quinn is now Plainfield Supervisor of Athletics" -- Oddly, story not floated by the District.
• "Plainfield students take part in 9/11 observance"
• "Rotary Club to distribute free dictionaries in Plainfield schools"

Union Catholic HS:  "School honors teen Olympian Sydney McLaughlin" -- Ledger |Courier |
Product Recall --

• "Samsung officially recalls Galaxy Note 7"
• "Fiat Chrysler recalling 1.9M vehicles over faulty airbags"

Jobs:  "Top 5 lowest paying jobs in NJ"
National Museum of African American History:  "I, too, sing America"
Newark:  "Is it finally showtime for stalled $116M  NJPAC development?"
Scotch Plains:  "Newly retired police chief charged in DUI"
Student Loans:  "Former ITT Tech students start debt strike"
Trenton:  "A Trenton middle school hailed as exemplary in combating absenteeism"

2016 Presidential Race --

• "Poll: Voters view Trump presidency as risky"
• "Trump still won't acknowledge Obama was born in US" -- NYTimes | Politico |
• "US Senate's Dem leader calls Trump a 'leech, con man and spoiled brat'"
• "Presidential Health:  Health mysteries of four presidents"
• "Donald Trump in the Land of Oz"
• "Donald Trump Jr. faces backlash over 'gas chamber' comment"

Bail Reform:  "Reforms bring 'seismic shift' in bail, speedy trials. officials say"
Courts:  "Five ways Trump could change the Federal bench in NJ"
NJ Pensions:  "Sweeney: Police and fire unions should control their own pensions"
NJ Supremes:  "Top court rules town's ban on electronic billboards is unconstitutional"
Pay Equity:  "NJ's wide gender pay gap detailed by Census for first time"
School Funding --

• "The school-funding battle: No holds barred"
• "Christie wants to reopen school funding case" -- That would be Abbott v. Burke.
• "Senate passes school funding  commission, but Prieto not on board"
• "Chrisite: My patience has run out with urban 'failure factories'"  -- Notice he doesn't have the nerve to come to an urban district to say this.

School Security:  "Bill putting armed, retired cops in schools passes Senate"
Transportation Trust Fund:  "$1.3B tax cut at center of new plan"


RECENT BLOG POSTS --

[[BERNICE]  Symphony event coming up.

[OLDDOC]  rates Monday's Council meeting a "yawn".  (9/13/16)

[Mayor MAPP]  What does 'One Plainfield, One Future' really mean? (9/12/16)

[Councilor STORCH]  on supporting our youth. (7/26/16)

[Councilor WILLIAMS]  Career and Job Fair in Plainfield Thursday. (9/13/16)

[DAVID]  reports on a short vacation in the Yucatan. (8/21/16)

[JACKIE]  BB18 live feeds into Thursday evening. (9/15/16).

[REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger]  Plainfield Plays Tennis free event Sept. 25. (9/12/2016)

[NOEL at PALS]  Week 1 - Mid-State 38 Conference Top 10. (9/15/16).

**NOTE: As of Monday, 8/15/16, PolicitckerNJ has become part of the NY Observer's website. (Both are owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner). I have always used the abbreviation 'PolNJ' to point to articles from the site. Things have gotten complicated in the meantime, since Politico, the award-winning national news site, has begun to branch out with a NJ version -- PoliticoNJ. To avoid confusion, I will henceforth refer to PolitickerNJ with the abbreviation "ObsNJ'..  Hope that's not all too confusing. -- Dan

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