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Sunday, October 20, 2019

Planning Board unanimously approves Coriell bed & breakfast.. Board of Ed Race: Dueling letters to the editor.. Football: Franklin runs over Plainfield.. Clinton Emails: State Dept. finds no deliberate mishandling of classified information.. Queen City Film Festival returns to Plainfield Oct 25-26..


[PLAINFIELD TODAY]
PLAINFIELD
  • Board of Ed Race -- Letters to the Editor
    • Why I'm voting for accountability. Read more here. -- For the Mapp slate.
    • Correcting an inaccurate email. Read more here. -- Terence Johnson critiques the above letter.
  • Drake House: 4 Centuries in a Weekend continues Sunday. Read more here.
  • Film Festival: Queen City Film Festival returns to Plainfield Oct 25-26. Read more here.
  • PHS Cardinals: Franklin runs over Plainfield. Read more here.
  • Planning Board: Planning Board unanimously approves Coriell bed & breakfast. Read more here.

OF INTEREST

  • Cranford: Rep. Malinowski discusses impeachment at town hall. Read more here.
  • Meteors: Orionid meter showers peak soon. Here's how to watch. Read more here.
  • Newark: Housing advocacy group challenges changes to rent control ordinance. Read more here.
  • Rutgers Football: RU's latest lost comes with stunning attendance number. Read more here.
  • Tax Abatement Fraud: Jersey City discovers apartment buildings were being run as hotels. Read more here.
  • Technology: Bots' superhuman role in pro-vaping social media strategy. Read more here.

STATE/NATIONAL

  • 2020 Prez Race --
    • Biden: Is there a crack in Biden's Black support? Read more here.
    • Booker --
      • Another Republican enters the race for Booker's Senate seat. Read more here.
      • Chris Redd's SNL impression of Booker is just awful. Here's why. Read more here.
    • Sanders: Bernie tops Warren with massive NYC rally Saturday. Read more here.
  • Clinton Emails: State Dept. finds no deliberate mishandling of classified info. Read more here.
  • Gov. Murphy: Murphy gives green light to $100M in state spending. Read more here.
  • Census2020: Efforts under way to maximize NJ's count. Read more here.
  • State Advertising: Group with close ties to Murphy gets $3M state advertising contract. Read more here.
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

  • Team: As inquiry ramps up,  Judiciary adds an impeachment scholar. Read more here.
  • Pelosi: Speaker Pelosi shuts down GOP Senate timeline. Read more here. -- Truth line more important than time line.
  • Quid Pro Quo: Mulvaney says, then denies, Trump held back Ukraine aid as a quid pro quo. Read more here.
  • Rooney: Florida Republican open to impeachment. Read more here. -- I came here [to DC] to do the right thing.

TRUMP WORLD
  • 2020 G-7 Summit: Trump says 2020 G-7 will not be at his Trump Doral property. Read more here.
  • Giuliani: Giuliani pushed Trump for a visa for Ukrainian promising dirt on Dems. Read more here.
  • Trump: Trump veterans see a presidency veering off the rails. Read more here.
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