Monthly Archives: October 2011

We Lost Our Hospital: Now What?

It has been 3 years now since Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center closed.  It was both the largest employer and the largest taxpayer in Plainfield, not to mention the place where almost everyone in town went, when they needed hospitalization, emergency room … Continue reading

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Banning Pay-to-Play

One of the most embarrassing things about New Jersey, politically speaking, is the common practice by which business entities and professionals who want to do business with local governments, or the State and its agencies, make campaign contributions to those … Continue reading

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Where Your Taxes Go

Everyone complains about our high property taxes, but Plainfielders do not really pay more than people in most of the towns around us do.  Of course, if our homes had the value of similar properties in nearby towns, and were … Continue reading

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