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Monday, April 20, 2020

Plainfield coronavirus cases near 1,000.. Tequila Club owner charged will selling drinks inside bar.. How to keep your glasses from fogging when wearing a mask.. Plainfield Gateway YMCA housing residents provided meal donations.. Mayor Baraka helps distribute masks to Newark residents.. Nieman-Marcus to file for bankruptcy this week..

[PLAINFIELD TODAY]
PLAINFIELD
  • Alcohol Sales: Tequila Club owner charged will selling drinks inside bar. -- TAPinto | Ledger |
  • Coronavirus: Plainfield coronavirus cases near 1,000. Read more here.
  • Homeless: Gateway YMCA housing residents provided meal donations. Read more here. 
  • Wardlaw-Hartridge: W-H thespians receive awards nominations. Read more here.
CORONAVIRUS
  • Information Resources --
    • NJ Dept. of Health. View here. -- Daily case, mortality information is here.
    • NJ Coronavirus Portal. View here. -- Organized by stakeholder groups.
    • Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Portal. View here. -- Global perspectives.

  • Aid: Deal near on more aid for small business. Read more here. -- Misleading, really small business is getting nothing.
  • Health-care Workers: How not to say the wrong thing to health-care workers. Read more here.
  • Hoarding: Grocer shuts down customer attempting to return thousands of TP rolls. Read more here. -- Karma is a bitch.
  • Masks --
    • How to keep your glasses from fogging when wearing a mask. Read more here.
    • Mayor Baraka helps distribute masks to Newark residents. Read more here.
  • New Jersey: NJ cases rise to over 85K, 4,202 deaths. Read more here.
  • Nursing Homes: Nursing homes ordered to report cases to patients, families and feds. Read more here.
  • Restarting: Murphy, other governors announce appointments to multi-state council. Read more here.
  • Service Workers: NJ service workers hit hard getting some relief in online tips. Read more here.
  • Stats: Thirteen NJ towns with at least 1,000 cases. Read more here.
  • Testing --
    • CDC labs were contaminated, delaying coronavirus testing. Read more here.
    • Trump invokes DPA for testing swabs, weeks after shortages noted. Read more here.
    • New partisan battle lines emerge over testing. Read more here.
  • WHO: Americans working at WHO transmitted early information to Trump administration. Read more here.

OF INTEREST
  • Mountainside: Nurse fired after complaining of understaffing at Rt. 22 nursing home. Read more here.
  • Retail: Nieman-Marcus to file for bankruptcy this week. -- Ledger | Yahoo |
  • Somerset County Business Partnership: SCBP launches web portal to support restaurants, health care workers. Read more here.

STATE/NATIONAL

  • 2020 Prez Race --
    • Elections --
      • OpEd: A Democratic wave election is coming this November. Read more here.
      • South Korea shows how to hold elections in a pandemic. Read more here.
    • Sanders: Why Bernie bit the dust; he couldn't embrace a patriotic American narrative. Read more here.
    • Trump: Campaign decides more to be gained by attacking Biden. Read more here.
  • Gov. Murphy: Murphy warns of historic layoffs if Congress fails to supply state aid. Read more here.
RECENT BLOG POSTS

  • [ OLDDOC]  Olddoc assesses the current situation, posts a gaggle of toons. (4/17/2020)
  • [Mayor MAPP]  Mayor Mapp advises he has discontinued his blog.
  • [Freeholder WILLIAMS]  Plainfield Recreation's Seniors on the Move video features chair exercises. (4/12/2020)
  • [SEAN McKENNA]  Sean posts on the introduction of the budget on April 13. (04/10/19)
  • [JACKIE]  Survivor 40: Winners at War April 15 blog party. (4/15/2020)
  • [REBECCA at Bathrobe Blogger]  On Plainfield Recreation's "Take Home" Easter Egg Hunt. (4/01/2020)
  • [NOEL at Jersey HS Sports]  Elizabeth defense too much for Plainfield. (3/07/2020)
  • [CARL at Plainfield Wildlife] Carl: Fox checks out a woodpile. (4/14/2020)
  • [DAN at Laona Boy] Dan recalls boyhood Halloweens of the 1950s. (10/30/18)
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Posted by Dan at 12:52 AM