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PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today: "Relay for Life 2007 - A Slideshow"
Crescent Times: "3-day Garage Sale to benefit Crescent Area"
Schools: "School board under fire after Howard resignation"
Liquor Licenses: "Liquor licenses boon, bust for towns" -- and state definitions. Table shows Plainfield with 34 total: 16 bar/restaurant, 13 liquor store, 5 club.
Plainwood Square Concerts: "Summer concert series continues at park"
Obituary: "Dr. Annette Kearney, former Plainfield School Superintendent"
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REAL ESTATE SUNDAY
SMALL PICTURE
Credit Bureaus and You: "How credit bureaus are profiting off your loan applications"BIG PICTURE
Fraud: "Web Help for Getting a Mortgage the Criminal Way"
Factories to Condos: "‘Gold Coast,’ Sterling Views, but ..."
NJ Mortgage Fraud: "Mortgage fraud skyrocketing; NJ tops nation in the growth of schemes"
Mortgages & Bond Markets: "Slumping Confidence in Bonds Tied to Subprime Mortgages"
Mortgages: "US Mortgage Payment Index"
TOOLS
Buy or Rent?: "Cost Comparison Tool" -- Enter your own values to calculate which is better, buying or renting. A really neat tool!
Ledger: "Home Finder", "Premier Estates" and "Real Estate" sections online.
Courier: "Real Estate" section online.
NYTimes: "This Week's Residential Sales Around the Region" -- North Plainfield?! Warren?! Yup.
Trulia: "Your Personal Real Estate Google"
WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Tomorrow. June 18. 7:30 PM. City Council Agenda Session. City Hall Library. 515 Watchung Avenue.
- Wednesday. June 20. 8 PM. City Council Business Meeting. City Council Chambers/Courthouse. Watchung Avenue and East 4th Street.
- Thursday. June 21. 6 PM. 3rd Thursday Concerts at Plainwood Square Park. Plainfield's own New Jersey Concert Opera. Sponsor: Plainwood Square Merchants and City of Plainfield. At Plainwood Square Park, South Avenue. FREE.
CENTRAL JERSEY
Development: "Last-ditch effort to keep Bayonne a shipping town"
Linden: "Linden crackdown targets speeders"
Maplewood: "Renewal Push Turns Avenue in Decline Into Tree-Lined Shopping District"
Newark: "Uncertainty roils Newark City Hall workers"
New Providence: "Resident wants end to diversity panel's closed meetings"
Paper Mill Playhouse: "Pure Gilbert and Sullivan? No. But Still a Glorious Thing."
Roselle: "Voter fraud? Absentee ballots in Democratic primary examined" -- Allegations of fraud in 2006 on behalf of De Filippo candidate.
Somerville: "Blueprint to redevelop old landfill expected this week"
STATE
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, June 17, 2007"
Corzine & Unions: "Corzine may yield to unions on benefit"
Clean Elections: "Filling the Coffers With $10 Here and There"
Gender Discrimination: "State cracks down on transgender discrimination"
Jersey City's Healy: "Mayor’s Turbulent Evening Is Big Case for Small Court"
Port Authority - SL: "Corzine, Spitzer tell P.A. to end its secretive ways"
..... - NYT: "Port Authority Needs More Openness, Governors Say, and They Have a Plan"
Schools Bonding: "Connecting With the Voters on Bond Issues"
Supreme Court: "Chief Justice Zazzali: His 8-month run was one mad dash"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Iraq - WP: "Abu Ghraib Investigator Points to Pentagon"
Palestine - NYT: "Hamas May Find It Needs Its Enemy"
Turkey - SL: "More unrest in Turkey"
OF INTEREST
Drug Safety: "FDA Scrutiny Scant In India, China as Drugs Pour Into U.S."
Food Safety: "Globalization in Every Loaf" -- Eating anything made with anything from abroad is getting scary. Note the weasel words from the food corporations.
Duke Rape Case: "Prosecutor in Duke Case Gives Up His Law License"
Graduations: Fran Wood: "Too much pomp for the circumstances" -- I'm with Fran!
Miracles: "Belief in miracles is as strong as ever"
Tattoos: "Erasing Tattoos, Out of Regret or Simply to Get a Fresh Canvas"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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