If you think Plainfield politics is a jungle, consider outside political intervention in the affairs of Roselle, and the statewide effects of same. When Roselle's mayor, Garrett Smith, appealed a borough Council layoff plan which eliminated the...

Scrounged seating was the least of the issues Thursday evening. There have been two burning questions in Plainfield politics the past few days about the budget process. Of course the most important is what the Council will do to strike a budget...

Lucy and Ethel found it hard to keep up with the pace at the chocolate factory. While the Plainfield City Council is preoccupied dealing with the boobytrapped budget the Robinson-Briggs administration delivered to it after the state's budget-filing...

The Carlton-Watchung-Kensington-Putnam area. Update on the rape and robbery at gunpoint Tuesday evening on Carlton Avenue. A reader reported a large number of police vehicles in the area of Carlton, Watchung and Kensington Avenues somewhat before...

Watching the Plainfield City Council's first budget session after the past-due-date introduction by the Robinson-Briggs administration was instructive on two fronts: positively by Judge Joan Robinson-Gross and negatively by the Council itself. Judge...