PMUA calendar pickup locations.. Emerson school update.. Maria on graffiti, landlords, street lights.. Stummer exhibit..

PLAINFIELD

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Plainfield Today: (Click HERE to read the posts serially, otherwise take your pick below. There are more stories up than posted below, and more go up during the day. -- Dan)

• "PMUA's 2008 Calendar: Pickup Locations"

Plain Talker: "Emerson School in Progress"
Crescent Times:

• Landlords: "Where do our landlords live?"
• Graffiti: "Anti-graffiti laws?"
• Street Lights: "Street Lights" -- Of the non-working variety.

Plainfield Trees: "Tulip Trees" -- A new entry the ongoing series on Plainfield's trees.
Councilors are blogging: Check out Cory Storch (here) and Rashid Burney (here).

Exhibit: "Audio slideshow of 'R.I.P.', Helen Stummer's show at Alzira" -- Her photography was recently featured in a Plainfield Public Library exhibit.

Commuting: "P.A. approves 1st toll, fare hikes since 2001"
Hospitals: "Bidder would divide bankrupt Barnert Hospital" -- An option in Muhlenberg's future?
School Funding: "3 districts dispute school funding plan" -- Well-off towns have gripes, too.

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

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• Today - January 5. Times unknown. 6 NJ Rallies for Obama. Was I dreaming I heard this yesterday? Not mentioned in today's Ledger story (see here), on Obama's website, or on the BlueJersey blog. Whazzup?
  
  
• Tomorrow - January 6. 12:30 PM. Post-Christmas Concert. Mezzo Grace Hackett of the Newark School of the Arts, and soprano Audrey Miller-Sidney join Alston Jack, who accompanies on the Trinidadian steel drum. A concert of 'Creole' carols, classical music and well-known holiday standards. At Grace Episcopal Church, East 7th Street and Cleveland Avenue. Info: (908) 756-1520 or www.graceplainfield.org. Public cordially invited.
  
  
• Tuesday - January 8. 7:30 PM. Act IV Productions: Auditions for 'Twelve Angry Jurors'. Planned as the community theater group's Spring show. Info: (908) 756-0750.

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CENTRAL JERSEY

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Newark --

• Booker: "Booker nominates pair to fill new vacancies"
• NY Times: "Booker Losing 2 Key Officers in Newark" -- The Times plays catch-up.

Somerset County: "Palmer named Somerset freeholder director" -- Also longtime backer of Raritan Valley Coalition.


STATE

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Obama & NJ: "Fresh from victory, Obama sees Garden State in play"
Human Trafficking: "For woman who enslaved Hondurans, a prison cell awaits"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.


NATION / WORLD

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2008 Primaries --

• New Hampshire: "Act II: A Change In States, Stakes"
• Clinton: "Hillary exacts her revenge on Obama"
• McCain: "McCain May Benefit From Huckabee’s Jolt to G.O.P."
  
• Media: "In Calling The Race, The Media Miss by a Mile"

Bush: "A Sudden Concern About the Economy" -- What to do? Tax cuts?
Death Penalty: "Justices to Consider Death Penalty Issue"
Economy: "Unemployment Sounds Warning About Economy" -- Ledger | NY Times |
Iraq: "In Baghdad, low expectations supplant high ideals"


OF INTEREST

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Blogs: "In Race for Gossip, TV Shows Turn to Blogs" -- 'Nasty, breathless and up-to-the-moment', but not any blogs you read, for sure.

Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.

BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |

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