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Plainfield (NJ) news, politics, community news and cultural activities. Every Monday is a review with links to past week's stories. Every Friday is a gossip roundup. My tagline: Turning things over with a pointy stick.
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Assemblyman Jerry Green: How I let you all down, again
Perhaps Plainfield Assemblyman Jerry Green should stop writing OpEds, considering that a close reading of them often does not advance his cause.Take, for instance, the piece "Let's clear the air, post...
D-Day today for Robinson-Briggs and Green on Muhlenberg
D-Day , no turning back.Today is D-Day today for Plainfield Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs and Assemblyman Jerry Green on the rescue of Muhlenberg Hospital.In two meetings today -- one including Commiss...
Plainfield's latest 'park' not its greatest
This abandoned pallet marks the entry from the rear parking lot. Bare dirt comprises most of the 'park' site. The sign. No comment.Plainfield's latest 'park' is hardly its greatest.I've been watching...
Something Mayor and Council could do about Muhlenberg
Whatever the outcome of Solaris' plan to close Muhlenberg (and I think the deal has long ago been cut), there is something important that Mayor Robinson-Briggs and the City Council could do that, to m...
Muhlenberg and the Council: Sue who?
At this point in the struggle to keep Muhlenberg open, it seems inconceivable the Council has no proactive position of its own.I have written earlier that it has done just as it was allowed to do and ...
Council discusses troublesome South Avenue zoning changes tonight
View Larger MapNote: Click on a colored area to see some of the proposed changes.Mapping required giving each segment a unique name (West, Center, East),which is not part of the zoning proposal langua...
Ad praising Jerry part of plan to embarrass Council?
Full-page ad thanks the Assemblyman.The full-page feel-good ad (see image HERE) in this past Tuesday's Ledger thanking Assemblyman Green has raised quite a few eyebrows.The first question on readers'...
Davis acquitted in DWI
Justice has been wrought.Councilor Don Davis, as reported in today's Ledger, Courier and by Bernice at the Plaintalker, has been acquitted of the March, 2007 DWI charge (see links at end of story).D...
The Curious Case of 'Kathleen Lewis'
Who?'Kathleen Lewis', that's who.A curious letter appeared in Friday's Courier (see here), in which the writer -- 'Kathleen Lewis', supposedly -- wrote an impassioned attack on Plainfield's 'New Dems'...
Primary Election: A look at the numbers
Plainfielders interested in how the votes went district-by-district in June 3's primary election will find the complete unofficial results posted here (PDF).Official results are certified by the Count...
McWilliams & Mapp: Celebration slideshow
A slideshow of pictures snapped at the McWilliams and Mapp victory celebration after the polls closed on Primary Day, June 3, 2008.Adblock Enjoy!...
Kudos to Olive Lynch, candidate, Muhlenberg activist
Though she did not win the Ward 3 Democratic nomination, I tip my hat to Muhlenberg activist Olive Lynch, who ran a feisty campaign and garnered a respectable number of votes.As she said to me last ni...
Links to Primary runup stories: A referendum on Jerry Green
For those who simply cannot get enough of Plainfield political hurly-burly, here are the links to my posts leading up to Tuesday's stunning defeat of Assemblyman Jerry Green's handpicked City Council ...
Voters Rebuke Green Team With McWilliams-Mapp Blowout
Annie McWilliams and Adrian Mapp celebrate with supporters aftersweeping Tuesday's Primary Election. (Photo, Allison McWilliams)Plainfield voters soundly rebuked the political leadership of Assemblyma...
Tuesday To-Do's: Vote, Party
It's Primary Day. I will be working as a volunteer challenger on behalf of Annie McWilliams today.I'm hoping you are so tired of the 'same old, same old' -- or angry, embarrassed or frustrated about t...
The Assemblyman's panic attack
As Plainfielders prepare to vote in Tuesday's primary election, Assemblyman Jerry Green's team gave way to an anonymous, hysterical panic attack on Sunday.Worshipers at many West End churches emerged ...
The problem with Don Davis
In her recent mailer, Olive Lynch, one of the challengers for Don Davis' council seat, asks rhetorically whether Plainfield can afford Don Davis' bar tab. While some may be annoyed at what D...
Slimemeister Green avoids Gibson's true cost to taxpayers
Plainfield's slimemeister strikes again!Assemblyman Jerry Green's political style (you didn't think these campaign mailers flooding your mailbox were the candidates' idea, did you?) rears it ugly head...
Plainfield's 'Corruption Tax', the Platters and You
"The fact is that the residents of New Jersey pay for the misdeeds of government decision-makers by paying in effect, a “corruption tax.”" -- Jon Corzine (more here). Prosecutors who deal wit...
Gibson and Muhlenberg: Sleeping through the crisis
Sign by Muhlenberg supporter in front of his house, Watchung Avenue.If Plainfielders want evidence that Council President Harold Gibson slept through the Muhlenberg crisis until it was out of control,...
Tuesday's Primary: The Buying and Selling (out) of Plainfield
I left off yesterday's post with Plainfielders wondering about the money being spent by Assemblyman Green on next Tuesday's primary election.Well, you need wonder no longer. Jerry himself revealed all...
Tuesday's Primary: A Referendum on Assemblyman Jerry Green
NOTE: For a REAL candidate forum, hosted by a REAL organization, come out tonight to the Plainfield Public Library at 7:00 PM. A candidate forum hosted by the Netherwood Heights Neighbors, the associa...
Plainfield Councilor Davis' DWI trial postponed -- again [updated].
Ward 3 Councilor Don Davis. [NOTE: This post updated after a conversation with Don Davis. See end of story.]Three weeks to the day before Ward 3 voters are set to decide whether he should get anoth...
New Finance Director's first week a freebie?
Image from Mr. Peck's website, DPMG.net.For him, not for us.Word is that Plainfield's new Acting Director of Administration and Finance, Douglas Peck, not only got a $12,000 moving allowance (no bills...
City Council: Dept. of Jots and Tittles
Plainfield resident Dr. Harold Yood rose at the comments section of Wednesday's City Council meeting to question the inclusion of resolution R203-08 as a consent item.The item was the award of a profe...
Councilor Storch asks a stumper question
The topic was information technology and Plainfield City Administrator Marc Dashield was presenting.Councilor Cory Storch's question was simplicity itself: Does this mean that we'll be able to get our...
Public memorials and namings in Plainfield [a slideshow]
As friends and family of the late Mayor Al McWilliams prepare to honor his memory at Sunday service at Shiloh Baptist Church, I am reminded that the proposal for a public memorial in Al's name was rem...
90-day 'acting' appointments. It's the law.
As the Plaintalker pointed out today (see here), City Administrator Marc Dashield's service as acting Director of Administration and Finance is now well past the time limit (February 24, by my count) ...
Jerry's troubling trifecta
A real king's job is to be in charge.And at first glance, Plainfield's Assemblyman Jerry Green appears very much in charge indeed.Wednesday evening, the Plainfield City Council delivered him his much-...
Police Chief: Council's make-or-break moment is tonight
Plainfield's City Council faces its final vote tonight on the Green/Robinson-Briggs' administration's ordinance to abolish the position of Police Chief and thus bring to an end an office that Plainfie...