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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Thief steals $1K in Girl Scout cookie money at mall.. Olddoc on Martin Luther King Day.. Noel at HS Sports: Balance scoring leads Plainfield over Sayreville.. Jackie: Celebrity Big Brother 2 blog pool opens.. PAAAS students win at speech and theater competition..


[PLAINFIELD TODAY]
PLAINFIELD
  • Boys Basketball: Plainfield trounces Sayreville. -- TAPinto | Ledger |
  • Freeholder Pay: What are you paying your freeholders? Read more here.
  • PAAAS:  PAAAS students win at speech and theater competition. Read more here.
  • Recycling:  Union County has an app for recycling in all its towns. Read more here.
  • Special Ed: Special Ed Parent Advisory Group to hold Open House. Read more here. -- Information and networking.
OF INTEREST
  • DC Confrontation --
    • Teen in confrontation: I didn't provoke anyone. Read more here.
    • Catholic school apologizes after clip emerges of students mocking Native Americans. Read more here.
  • Food: Mac and cheese festival coming to Hoboken. Read more here.
  • Gannett:  Gannett remains mum on takeover bid. Read more here. -- It's NJ papers do not cover the story.
  • MLK Day --
    • Gov. Murphy: Remembrance is easy, action is hard. Read more here.
    • The day Dr. King came to Paterson. Read more here.
    • NJ was against state holiday before it was for it. Read more here.
    • New Brunswick, Highland Park celebrate MLK Day with public art. Read more here.
    • Book Review: Breaking White Supremacy: MLK and the Black Social Gospel. Read more here.
  • Pets:  NJ pets in need, Jan. 21. Read more here.
  • Thefts --
    • Thief steals $1K in Girl Scout cookie money at Woodbridge mall. Read more here.
    • Retired NJ firefighter stole items from museum and sold them on eBay. Read more here.
STATE/NATIONAL
  • 2020 Prez Race: Menendez, Norcross not angling for roles in possible Booker administration. Read more here. -- Getting a little ahead of ourselves, aren't we?
  • Sen. Booker:  Booker, John Lewis visit Jimmy Carter in Georgia. Read more here.
  • Sen. Menendez: Menendez to fundraise for Senate Dems in 2020. Read more here.
  • Alvarez Rape Allegation:  Top investigator in case calls theory of political pressure 'complete nonsense'. Read more here.
  • Christie: Christie gears up for Feb. 1 book promotion appearance. Read more here.
  • Dark Money:  Singleton bill would shed some light on dark money. Read more here.
  • NJ Supremes: Top court dismisses massive backlog of municipal cases. Read more here.
  • Online Gambling:  Sweeney taps Lesniak to take on DOJ over new ruling. Read more here.
  • Shutdown --
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