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Friday, February 7, 2020

Plainfield's Freedom Church, school board dispute heads to court.. Olddoc looks forward to his 100th birthday.. Planning Board adopts new plans for downtown parking lots, South Avenue.. Plainfield man pleads guilty to distributing cocaine, oxycodone.. Noel at HS Sports: Defense leads Plainfield over Union.. Jackie: Survivor 40: Winners at War blog pool opens..


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PLAINFIELD
  • Drugs: Plainfield man pleads guilty to distributing cocaine, oxycodone. Read more here.
  • Freedom Church: Plainfield church, school board dispute heads to court. Read more here.
  • ICE: ICE sweep nets 115, including man from Plainfield. Read more here.
  • NJEA: NJ Supremes to take up case of JC district paying union rep's salary. Read more here.
  • Plainfield Public Schools: District encourages wearing of red Friday. Read more here.
  • Planning Board: Board adopts new plans for downtown parking lots, South Avenue. Read more here.
  • Streetlights: Making the case for replacing them with LED lighting. Read more here.
  • Wawa: Wawa ground broken Wednesday. -- TAPinto | Courier |

OF INTEREST
  • Boomers v. Millennials: These Boomer brands may soon disappear. Read more here. -- Diet Pepsi?
  • EWR: Newark airport sees NJ's first mandatory coronavirus quarantine. Read more here.
  • Kean U.: NJ Education Commissioner Repollet being considered for president. -- PoliticoNJ | Ledger |
  • Sen. Lesniak: Former NJ senator to be inducted into Sports Betting Hall of Fame. Read more here.
STATE/NATIONAL
  • 2020 Prez Race --
    • Iowa Caucuses --
    • Election Security: McAfee finds county website in 13 states lack basic security. Read more here.
    • Bloomberg: NJ's Mikie Sherrill backs Bloomberg. Read more here.
    • Buttigieg --
    • Warren: Women of color bolt Warren's Nevada operation in frustration. Read more here.
    • New Hampshire: Sanders takes the lead, Buttigieg and Biden battle for second. Read more here.
  • Dem National Convention: Former Murphy aides fired from host committee. Read more here.
  • Gateway Tunnel: Senators demand tunnel timeline from Trump administration. Read more here.
  • Judicial Censure: Judge faces censure for courtroom behavior. Read more here. -- You gotta read this.
  • Migrants: Judge overturns conviction of Unitarians who left food, water in desert. Read more here.
  • Sexual Harassment --
    • NJ's boozy, male-dominated politics gets its #metoo moment. Read more here.
    • NJ Chamber of Commerce to offer free sexual harassment training seminars. Read more here.
  • State of The Union --
  • Ukraine: Ukraine says US holding up $30 worth of guns, wants its money back. Read more here.
TRUMP WORLD
  • Prayer Breakfast: Trump attacks impeachment foes for invoking faith. Read more here.
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