With only three items on the Plainfield City Council's special meeting agenda Monday night, most of the meeting was devoted to just one of them: the Robinson-Briggs administration's proposed layoff plan.
Plainfield's budget struggle gets under way in earnest tonight with the Administration's formal offering (finally!) of its FY2010 proposal to the City Council.
Besides the budget itself, the Council will take up the Robinson-Briggs administration's proposed layoff plan and its [...]
Plainfield's City Council President Rashid Burney posted his concerns about the Robinson-Briggs administration's proposed layoff plan to his blog last Sunday, November 15.
A reader commenting on Plainfield officials' attendance at the League of Municipalities conference in Atlantic City (see yesterday's story here) made the following suggestion -- I think that everyone who goes' [...]
Taking Plainfield's 2010 Census will provide $13/hour jobs for full- and part-time workers, according to information distributed by local coordinator George Gore at Monday's council meeting.
Today's Star-Ledger notes that officials responsible for New Jersey's count are looking to hire [...]
Legal notice of the PMUA's 'retreat'. (Click to enlarge or print.)
The Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority had a 'retreat' yesterday at the Borgata in Atlantic City, according to the special notice in a local paper supplied by a reader [...]
Elected officials and administrators from Plainfield will be joining those from across New Jersey this week for the 94th Annual Conference of the NJ League of Municipalities (NJLM).
Traditionally, it has been a week of schmoozing, boozing and deal-making -- including some [...]
Some of the 150 or so who attended last night's Council meeting -- though not there because of the Census presentation.
Plainfield City Council President Rashid Burney pressed the Robinson-Briggs administration pretty hard at last week's agenda-setting session, wanting [...]
During Plainfield's most recent political seasons there have been two 'stalking horse' blogs perhaps not known to the general blog-reading public. I thought to check up on them this weekend, to see what they're up to now that there is [...]
The Blessed Virgin Mary, stained glass window in Grace Church.
An abbreviated Plainfield Today today -- am off to the ordination of my friend Susan Ironside as a 'transitional' deacon at Trinity Cathedral in Trenton this morning. 'Transitional' [...]
Today's Courier features a story (see here) on the new speed humps on Kensington Avenue, promoted by Councilors Cory Storch and Rashid Burney and noted previously on their blogs (see here and here).
The 800-block of George Street is a quiet residential neighborhood.
I have learned there was a home invasion in the 800-block of George Street Thursday evening. UPDATE. I have since been told the incident happened around 3:00 PM, when [...]
A DPW worker (not Superintendent John Louise) mounting holiday decorations outside the (original) Texas Weiner near Watchung Avenue and East Front Street. (Photo courtesy Cheri Bullock)
Consider it an amplification of yesterday's picture gallery of scenes around' [...]
As of yesterday, drivers entering Plainfield via Somerset Street no longer need endure the bone-jarring corduroy road which the block from the North Plainfield line to Front Street has been for decades.
Veterans Day annouccement on City's website. (Click to enlarge.)
Plainfielders who read the city's official (and presumed official) pronouncements on this year's observance of Veterans Day may find them alternatively incontrovertible, inscrutable, and inexplicable, or' [...]
A Plainfield commuter who lives in the 900-block of Madison Avenue was robbed at gunpoint while walking home from the train station this past Tuesday evening, I learned from a VWB resident on Saturday evening.
'Wiener Man' took First Place in the 2008 contest's amateur division.
Entries in the Plainfield Public Library's 4th annual photography contest will be on display in an exhibit that opens today with a reception from 1 -3 PM in [...]
Plainfield streets were bombarded with campaign signs.
Plainfielders who get annoyed at how long it takes for political signs to disappear after an election (even if taxpayer money is spent picking many of them up) may wish they had [...]
Plainfield Today is four years old (see the very first of 1932 posts so far here).
Here are some suggestions derived from the 'modern gifts' table at findgift.com (see here), which says 'APPLIANCES' are just the thing for a fourth anniversary. [...]
Plainfielders who thought the election was settled may want to check their dead-wood editions of the Courier News today, where they will find (on page A-4) that Marty Marks beat Jerry Green in the 22nd Legislative' [...]
Here are ten reasons to give Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs a second term. (Follow the links if your memory needs refreshing.) 10. She's a MATH WHIZ. Defying the laws of mathematics and gravity, Mayor Sharon' [...]
Plainfield's 'BUF' has been identified by this sign in recent years.
Reading an article in The Positive Community magazine on the National Black United Fund's recent launch of a campaign to increase donors and donations (see here), [...]
