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Friday, December 31, 2010
PEOPLE v. MARTIN - Leagle.com
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Army-Navy game coming to FedEx Field - Dayton Business Journal:
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The , the and Destination D.C. have announce that the 112th Army-Navy game will be played at in Marylanron Dec. 10, 2011. Along with the footbalkl game, the event brings with it a weekend ofancillary events, including the Army-Navy Gala. “Thiws is a phenomenal achievement by the three organizations to secure such an historic event forour nation’ws capital,” said Robert Sweeney, president of the Greate r Washington Sports Alliance.
“With nearly a half million active and retired military personnel currently living in our region and the historixc memorials that honorour nation’s serviced men and women, it just makes sense to have a game of this magnitudwe played in Washington.” The event is part of an eight-year packaged announced Tuesday by the and the . Philadelphiaa will host the gamein 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017. The game will take placew in Baltimore in 2014and 2016.
The , the and Destination D.C. have announce that the 112th Army-Navy game will be played at in Marylanron Dec. 10, 2011. Along with the footbalkl game, the event brings with it a weekend ofancillary events, including the Army-Navy Gala. “Thiws is a phenomenal achievement by the three organizations to secure such an historic event forour nation’ws capital,” said Robert Sweeney, president of the Greate r Washington Sports Alliance.
“With nearly a half million active and retired military personnel currently living in our region and the historixc memorials that honorour nation’s serviced men and women, it just makes sense to have a game of this magnitudwe played in Washington.” The event is part of an eight-year packaged announced Tuesday by the and the . Philadelphiaa will host the gamein 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017. The game will take placew in Baltimore in 2014and 2016.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Ohio communities struggle to fill big box stores - Dayton Daily News
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Ohio communities struggle to fill big box stores Dayton Daily News AP Updated 3:22 PM Sunday, December 26, 2010 DAYTON, Ohio â€" Ohio communities are struggling to fill big box retail stores abandoned when companies move on ... |
Friday, December 24, 2010
Home prices in mountain states up 1.3%, outpacing nation - Denver Business Journal:
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percent in April from the previousd month, the biggest increase of any region ofthe nation, the Federapl Housing Finance Agency reported The nation as a wholes saw a 0.1 percen home-price decrease in April over March, the report but the pace of the month-to-month pricse declines is slowing. Nationwide prices the previous montg declined arevised 1.4 percent. The mountain-state region includes Colorado as wellas Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arizonsa and New Mexico. Year over year, the mountai n states saw a 10.2 percent housing-price decreasw in April from the same montyh ayear earlier, FHFA said in its monthly Housing Price Index report. That was a greate r drop than the 6.
8 percent national declinre and was exceeded regionally only by the PacificCoast 17.1 percent year-over-year drop. Averager nationwide prices aredown 11.2 percenyt from an April 2007 peak, according to FHFA The FHFA data include only salezs with mortgages sold or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "Althoug monthly data are volatile, we may be starting to see signs of stabilizatiob in prices for houses funded by conforming loans, as the Housing Price Index is down only 0.3 percentr for the first four months of the said FHFA director James Lockhart in a .
percent in April from the previousd month, the biggest increase of any region ofthe nation, the Federapl Housing Finance Agency reported The nation as a wholes saw a 0.1 percen home-price decrease in April over March, the report but the pace of the month-to-month pricse declines is slowing. Nationwide prices the previous montg declined arevised 1.4 percent. The mountain-state region includes Colorado as wellas Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arizonsa and New Mexico. Year over year, the mountai n states saw a 10.2 percent housing-price decreasw in April from the same montyh ayear earlier, FHFA said in its monthly Housing Price Index report. That was a greate r drop than the 6.
8 percent national declinre and was exceeded regionally only by the PacificCoast 17.1 percent year-over-year drop. Averager nationwide prices aredown 11.2 percenyt from an April 2007 peak, according to FHFA The FHFA data include only salezs with mortgages sold or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "Althoug monthly data are volatile, we may be starting to see signs of stabilizatiob in prices for houses funded by conforming loans, as the Housing Price Index is down only 0.3 percentr for the first four months of the said FHFA director James Lockhart in a .
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Stem Cells Into Intestinal Tissue, More Biological Alchemy for Your Body - Singularity Hub
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Singularity Hub | Stem Cells Into Intestinal Tissue, More Biological Alchemy for Your Body Singularity Hub Creation of the intestinal tissue was lead by James W. Wells who has a history of researching embryonic development, embryonic stem cells and cancer in the ... |
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Refi rally for TexasLending.com - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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As many as 120 loan underwriters, accounting professionals, loan processors, loan closersa and clerical positions payingbetween $30,000 to more than $100,0090 a year will be added, said Kevin Miller, president, CEO and foundert of TexasLending.com. The jobs will be added beginning in Augusf and will be phased in durint the next six tonine months, he The company has 160 employees now, down from 180 at the peak of the Nortb Texas housing boom two years ago. Low mortgager rates and Miller’s expectation of climbing home sales are spurringthe company’ws growth, he said.
“We expect rates to be low for the next year and a then we expect home purchasinh to be strong after thatin Texas,” he The local housing market certainly has a lot of groundc to recover. New-home sales in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were down 40% for the firsg four months of the year compared to the same periosin 2008, and sales of pre-owned single-familt homes were down 24% duringh that period, according to housing market analyst Davir Brown, director of the Dallas office of Metrostudy. Theree were 4,191 new-home closings and 18,442 resales in the area througbh April, he said.
Brown expects 2009 salee to trail year-ago numbers for the remainder ofthe “We do expect to begin to see some modesyt recovery in terms of transactions beginningh in 2010, assuming we see the national econom y begin to turn around and we see the jobs picturde begin to improve,” he said. About 70% of TexasLending.com’se business today is refinancing, compared with 40% to 50% at this time last Miller said. TexasLending.com closes $60 million to $80 millio in monthly loan volume now, or about $850 million annually, Miller said.
With the additionalo employees, Miller’s goal is to reacgh $3 billion to $4 billion in annuao loan volume in the nextfive years, he The company provides residential mortgage loans in Oklahoma, Florida, Michigan, Missouri and Colorado, servicing all of them from the Dallax office. For the week ending May 22, mortgage loan applicationj volume nationwide wasup 28.5% compared with the same week one year according to a weeklyg survey by the Mortgage Bankersd Association. Refinancings made up 69.3 % of the mortgage activity. Loan volumes in Texas was $11.7 billion in the firsg quarter ofthis year, down slightly from $12.
4 billioh in 2008, according to the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association statistics. Mortgage industry employment in Texas fell by more thana 30% from 2007 to but has since stabilized, said Scott Norman, vice presidenrt of the Texas Mortgagd Bankers Association. Norman said he’s heard anecdotally that the surge in refinancings is prompting mortgage lenders toadd employees, but he did not have specific industryu employment numbers. To make room for new employees, TexasLending.
coj has signed a lease for 69,000 squarr feet in its existingv location at 4100 Alpha Road in Dallas more than triple the size it currently said Ben Hautt with the commercial real estate firm Streajm RealtyPartners LP. Hautt recently left Stream’s Dallae office to launch the company’x office in Atlanta, where he is managing TexasLending.com will begin moving into its expanded spacsein August, after the completio n of renovations that are now undeer way. After expanding, TexasLending.cok will occupy all of the fourth and fifth floor and part of the first floord inthe 11-story building, Hautt said.
“It’sx an expansion, and today that’es not something you see a lot Hautt said. “They’re thriving in the current economy.” The 227,000-square-foot building at 4100 Alphwa Road is part ofThe Centre, an 11-buildinfg office complex north of Interstate 635 off Midwa y Road. The asking lease rate for the spac e isabout $16.50 per square Hautt and Stream Realty colleagues Ben Sumner and Chad Hennings representede TexasLending.com in the lease, and Buddy Tompkinss and Seth Thatcher of commercial real estate firm GVA Cawley representedc the landlord. Hautt said TexasLending.com searched the markeg before deciding to expand withim itsexisting building.
As many as 120 loan underwriters, accounting professionals, loan processors, loan closersa and clerical positions payingbetween $30,000 to more than $100,0090 a year will be added, said Kevin Miller, president, CEO and foundert of TexasLending.com. The jobs will be added beginning in Augusf and will be phased in durint the next six tonine months, he The company has 160 employees now, down from 180 at the peak of the Nortb Texas housing boom two years ago. Low mortgager rates and Miller’s expectation of climbing home sales are spurringthe company’ws growth, he said.
“We expect rates to be low for the next year and a then we expect home purchasinh to be strong after thatin Texas,” he The local housing market certainly has a lot of groundc to recover. New-home sales in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were down 40% for the firsg four months of the year compared to the same periosin 2008, and sales of pre-owned single-familt homes were down 24% duringh that period, according to housing market analyst Davir Brown, director of the Dallas office of Metrostudy. Theree were 4,191 new-home closings and 18,442 resales in the area througbh April, he said.
Brown expects 2009 salee to trail year-ago numbers for the remainder ofthe “We do expect to begin to see some modesyt recovery in terms of transactions beginningh in 2010, assuming we see the national econom y begin to turn around and we see the jobs picturde begin to improve,” he said. About 70% of TexasLending.com’se business today is refinancing, compared with 40% to 50% at this time last Miller said. TexasLending.com closes $60 million to $80 millio in monthly loan volume now, or about $850 million annually, Miller said.
With the additionalo employees, Miller’s goal is to reacgh $3 billion to $4 billion in annuao loan volume in the nextfive years, he The company provides residential mortgage loans in Oklahoma, Florida, Michigan, Missouri and Colorado, servicing all of them from the Dallax office. For the week ending May 22, mortgage loan applicationj volume nationwide wasup 28.5% compared with the same week one year according to a weeklyg survey by the Mortgage Bankersd Association. Refinancings made up 69.3 % of the mortgage activity. Loan volumes in Texas was $11.7 billion in the firsg quarter ofthis year, down slightly from $12.
4 billioh in 2008, according to the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association statistics. Mortgage industry employment in Texas fell by more thana 30% from 2007 to but has since stabilized, said Scott Norman, vice presidenrt of the Texas Mortgagd Bankers Association. Norman said he’s heard anecdotally that the surge in refinancings is prompting mortgage lenders toadd employees, but he did not have specific industryu employment numbers. To make room for new employees, TexasLending.
coj has signed a lease for 69,000 squarr feet in its existingv location at 4100 Alpha Road in Dallas more than triple the size it currently said Ben Hautt with the commercial real estate firm Streajm RealtyPartners LP. Hautt recently left Stream’s Dallae office to launch the company’x office in Atlanta, where he is managing TexasLending.com will begin moving into its expanded spacsein August, after the completio n of renovations that are now undeer way. After expanding, TexasLending.cok will occupy all of the fourth and fifth floor and part of the first floord inthe 11-story building, Hautt said.
“It’sx an expansion, and today that’es not something you see a lot Hautt said. “They’re thriving in the current economy.” The 227,000-square-foot building at 4100 Alphwa Road is part ofThe Centre, an 11-buildinfg office complex north of Interstate 635 off Midwa y Road. The asking lease rate for the spac e isabout $16.50 per square Hautt and Stream Realty colleagues Ben Sumner and Chad Hennings representede TexasLending.com in the lease, and Buddy Tompkinss and Seth Thatcher of commercial real estate firm GVA Cawley representedc the landlord. Hautt said TexasLending.com searched the markeg before deciding to expand withim itsexisting building.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Aretha Franklin is Home From Hospital and "Feeling Great" - ThirdAge
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msnbc.com | Aretha Franklin is Home From Hospital and "Feeling Great" ThirdAge The legendary soul singer, 68, told JET magazine her stay in a Detroit hospital was "highly successful" and now she's "piddling around the house". ... Aretha Franklin 'so grateful' to be alive Aretha Franklin at Home, "in Great Spirits" Aretha Franklin Feels 'Great' Post-Surgery, Still Not Revealing Ailment |
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Microsoft's new slates looking to take a bite out of Apple iPad - Appolicious
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Techtree.com | Microsoft's new slates looking to take a bite out of Apple iPad Appolicious Bilton said unnamed sources described the Samsung device as “similar in size and shape to the Apple iPad, although it is not as thin. ... Microsoft set to reveal iPad rival - Report Microsoft gearing up to reintroduce iPad competitors running Windows 7 Why Microsoft Should Tabletize Windows Phone 7 OS |
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Further Review column - American Chronicle
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The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Further Review column American Chronicle 10--Assistant coach Brandyn Akana now has someone he can see eye-to-eye with at University of Hawaii basketball practice. Let's just put it this way: Akana ... |
Thursday, December 9, 2010
High-tech composites firm expands in Port Angeles - Washington Post
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KOMO News | High-tech composites firm expands in Port Angeles Washington Post AP PORT ANGELES, Wash. -- A fast-growing, local company that supplies parts to Boeing and other aerospace companies will be the "anchor" tenant for a new ... Aerospace gives major shot in the arm to Port Angeles economy ACTI of Port Angeles to expand, won't move away Aerospace firm stays in Washington |
Monday, December 6, 2010
UBS Seen Grooming Ermotti as Next CEO - Wall Street Journal
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The Business Insider | UBS Seen Grooming Ermotti as Next CEO W » |
Saturday, December 4, 2010
N. Ky./Cincy economic index shows gain - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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percent in April, the first increase in 12 That’s the word in “Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati by the the monthly newsletter of the Center for Economic Analysis and Developmenftat . The LEI gauges economic activity in the next three tosix months. It stood at 87.3 following a 0.3 declinre in March and a 0.9 decline in February. The nationall LEI related by the Conferences Board increased 1 percentin April, which was the first gain in that index in seven months.
“The locakl index has been generally fallinyg since the middle of but the pace of its decline has slowedc substantially inrecent months,” according to the article written by senioer research economist Feng Guo and Janet Harrah, the center’se senior director. “The average workweek, local stock building permits, local purchasing manager index and national LEI all contributed positivelu to the indexin April, more than offsettinb the negative contributions from initial unemployment claims and in-bound air freight.” The Northern Kentucky/Greaterr Cincinnati Current Conditions Index fell 0.6 percentr from the preceding month to 93.3 in April.
Driven by continued declines in employmentand non-residential electricitg usage, the index has now declinesd for 12 months in a row. The seasonallt adjusted unemployment rate roseto 9.2 percenrt in April, up from March’d 8.8 percent. And, the article noted, job lossees are likely to continue after Chrysler and Generao Motors filed for bankruptcy and terminated relationshipxs withlocal dealers. The only positive impact on the CCI was the increaswe in the CVG airtransportatiom index. The new lower air fare structurew put in place by atthe Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Internationalp Airport was reflected in the rise in local traffid in April.
Based on the announcement that the company will reactivate its CVG facilittyby mid- to late summer, the air transportation indexx is expected to rise through the rest of the Guo and Harrah wrote. “While caution needs to be exercisef about drawing conclusions from just asingle month’s wortuh of data, this is definitelyh good news at a time when there hasn’t been much positivs news about the local economy,” they “Taken together, the behavior of the composite indexz suggests that the contraction in economic activityh will continue in the near term, but will likely becom less severe in the upcoming months.” The center will release its newsletteer Friday.
That’s when it will be available onthe center’ds web site .
percent in April, the first increase in 12 That’s the word in “Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati by the the monthly newsletter of the Center for Economic Analysis and Developmenftat . The LEI gauges economic activity in the next three tosix months. It stood at 87.3 following a 0.3 declinre in March and a 0.9 decline in February. The nationall LEI related by the Conferences Board increased 1 percentin April, which was the first gain in that index in seven months.
“The locakl index has been generally fallinyg since the middle of but the pace of its decline has slowedc substantially inrecent months,” according to the article written by senioer research economist Feng Guo and Janet Harrah, the center’se senior director. “The average workweek, local stock building permits, local purchasing manager index and national LEI all contributed positivelu to the indexin April, more than offsettinb the negative contributions from initial unemployment claims and in-bound air freight.” The Northern Kentucky/Greaterr Cincinnati Current Conditions Index fell 0.6 percentr from the preceding month to 93.3 in April.
Driven by continued declines in employmentand non-residential electricitg usage, the index has now declinesd for 12 months in a row. The seasonallt adjusted unemployment rate roseto 9.2 percenrt in April, up from March’d 8.8 percent. And, the article noted, job lossees are likely to continue after Chrysler and Generao Motors filed for bankruptcy and terminated relationshipxs withlocal dealers. The only positive impact on the CCI was the increaswe in the CVG airtransportatiom index. The new lower air fare structurew put in place by atthe Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Internationalp Airport was reflected in the rise in local traffid in April.
Based on the announcement that the company will reactivate its CVG facilittyby mid- to late summer, the air transportation indexx is expected to rise through the rest of the Guo and Harrah wrote. “While caution needs to be exercisef about drawing conclusions from just asingle month’s wortuh of data, this is definitelyh good news at a time when there hasn’t been much positivs news about the local economy,” they “Taken together, the behavior of the composite indexz suggests that the contraction in economic activityh will continue in the near term, but will likely becom less severe in the upcoming months.” The center will release its newsletteer Friday.
That’s when it will be available onthe center’ds web site .
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
$94 million toxic ash cleanup begins - bizjournals:
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A week from now, construction equipment will remove two feet of soil from the grounda of the Springfield church on West Fifth Street and replacde it withnew soil, early signs of a massivs environmental cleanup project slaterd to begin in the The property and an additional 1,100 acrew were contaminated by three city-run municipal incinerators that operated until the 1960s. They burned trasgh into ash thatleft arsenic, lead and other metals in the in addition to septic sludgse and other wastes, according to documents. The city last year dubbe d the area andits $94 milliom cleanup Project New Ground.
But the contamination sites includedr in the project were long known by the namezs the EPA gavethem — Jacksonville Ash and Brown’es Dump — when they were deemed among the country’s most hazardousx wastelands and entered into the federal Superfund programn a decade earlier. The Jacksonvilld Ash Site encompasses three former incineratorsites McCoy’s Creek Boulevard and Margaret Street; Fifth and Clevelanc streets; and Moncrief Road and Soutep Drive. Brown’s Dump includexs the former Mary McLeod BethuneElementary School.
Residents say ash that wasn’t scattered by wind, buried in a nearby landfill or seeping into the groun d beneath the incinerators was sprayer ontothe streets, which were dirt in those days. R.L. Gundy, 55, is the pastorf at Mount Sinai MissionaryBaptist Church, and grew up just a few blockws from one of the incinerators. He remembers playingg in it. “You could smell it, you could see it, but you didn’t know what it said Gundy, who has been diagnosed with prostate He talks about how many neighbors and friends have been stricken with cancetr andother diseases, not knowing for sure if the earthn below was the cause.
Last the first properties thatwere “fast-tracked” began the cleanup St. Stephens, which operates a school acrosthe street, is the last property on the priorit list before general cleanup Joe Alfano, EPA project manager for the said the cleanup plan should get final approvap by September. Once the full-scale excavation is under way, it will be yearsa before machinery can dig up two feet wortghof metal-laden soil across 1.7 square miles. “Thisa site’s main problem is the size,” Alfano “We’ve had to sample as many of those propertie as wecan individually, so we have to get access to those properties. Sometimes we have to sample more.
the sheer number of propertiesw isa problem. It’s in excessz of 2,000 residential properties and 500 industrial The biggest concern at the sites is elevates levels of lead in the which in the most severely contaminated areasw is twicegovernment standards. As part of the investigationn process, the Duval County Healtnh Department tested about 350 childrej for lead inthe bloodstream. Five of the sampless showed blood lead levels in thetoxic range. Residentse demanded the city close ash-site schoolsw Forest Park Head Start and Mary McLeod BethuneElementaryy School, and it did.
Children exposex to lead can suffer from learning disabilitiee andbehavioral problems, and worse for very high levels, accordinyg to the . Officials at the Duvakl County Health Department could not be reachede bypress time. Arsenic and dioxin were also founx in the soil atelevated levels. a naturally occurring but poisonous metal, can causee cancer and harm the nervous Dioxins are a byproduct of incinerating PVC They can cause cancer andmetabolic diseases. Governmen t officials now say the healthg risks associated with the site are Residents were instructed to wash theire hands after touchingthe soil, and particularly toxic areas have been enclosed by a chain-link fence.
More than 4,000 ash site residentes said the city violated their civil and sued for dumping ash in thepredominantlyu poor, black neighborhoods and exposing them to healtn risks. The city settled for $75 million in 2006. Lee Harris is the pastodr at Mount Olive PrimitivedBaptist Church, an ash land He’s one of many who said officials have steere clear of discussing health effects and minimized the potentia for harm. “If they had stopped the I don’t think it would have cost them so Harris said. Residents’ outrage wasn’tg confined to the courtroom.
There were heated communityy meetings, protests and other threats of Neighbors began growing suspicious that governmentfofficials weren’t providing the whole truth, and weren’t moving fast “There are a lot of sensitivities when it comes to the ash site said Ben Pennymon, a city spokesman. “Soi we have hit the grounf running with a grassroots campaign to let thesed communitiesknow what’s going on.” That plan includesx a new Web site and upcomingb information center, and monthly meetings with “I’m glad they are doing something,” Gundh said. “I’m glad we are overcoming the sins of our forefathersd who dumped atthose sites.
” Harris points out another victi of the ash — the yet unfinishef Durkeeville project. The redevelopment project, which was awardef a $21 million grant from the and was alreaduyunder way, came to a halt when the ash was The city reallocated the fundds to avoid losing them. Harris worries that the neighborhoo d might not ever get the money to finishthe project. He doesn’t understande why the city fast-tracked the cleanul of a site to build atennis court, but not the landes that have held hostag the Durkeeville project.
“This has put everyone’s live on hold,” he
A week from now, construction equipment will remove two feet of soil from the grounda of the Springfield church on West Fifth Street and replacde it withnew soil, early signs of a massivs environmental cleanup project slaterd to begin in the The property and an additional 1,100 acrew were contaminated by three city-run municipal incinerators that operated until the 1960s. They burned trasgh into ash thatleft arsenic, lead and other metals in the in addition to septic sludgse and other wastes, according to documents. The city last year dubbe d the area andits $94 milliom cleanup Project New Ground.
But the contamination sites includedr in the project were long known by the namezs the EPA gavethem — Jacksonville Ash and Brown’es Dump — when they were deemed among the country’s most hazardousx wastelands and entered into the federal Superfund programn a decade earlier. The Jacksonvilld Ash Site encompasses three former incineratorsites McCoy’s Creek Boulevard and Margaret Street; Fifth and Clevelanc streets; and Moncrief Road and Soutep Drive. Brown’s Dump includexs the former Mary McLeod BethuneElementary School.
Residents say ash that wasn’t scattered by wind, buried in a nearby landfill or seeping into the groun d beneath the incinerators was sprayer ontothe streets, which were dirt in those days. R.L. Gundy, 55, is the pastorf at Mount Sinai MissionaryBaptist Church, and grew up just a few blockws from one of the incinerators. He remembers playingg in it. “You could smell it, you could see it, but you didn’t know what it said Gundy, who has been diagnosed with prostate He talks about how many neighbors and friends have been stricken with cancetr andother diseases, not knowing for sure if the earthn below was the cause.
Last the first properties thatwere “fast-tracked” began the cleanup St. Stephens, which operates a school acrosthe street, is the last property on the priorit list before general cleanup Joe Alfano, EPA project manager for the said the cleanup plan should get final approvap by September. Once the full-scale excavation is under way, it will be yearsa before machinery can dig up two feet wortghof metal-laden soil across 1.7 square miles. “Thisa site’s main problem is the size,” Alfano “We’ve had to sample as many of those propertie as wecan individually, so we have to get access to those properties. Sometimes we have to sample more.
the sheer number of propertiesw isa problem. It’s in excessz of 2,000 residential properties and 500 industrial The biggest concern at the sites is elevates levels of lead in the which in the most severely contaminated areasw is twicegovernment standards. As part of the investigationn process, the Duval County Healtnh Department tested about 350 childrej for lead inthe bloodstream. Five of the sampless showed blood lead levels in thetoxic range. Residentse demanded the city close ash-site schoolsw Forest Park Head Start and Mary McLeod BethuneElementaryy School, and it did.
Children exposex to lead can suffer from learning disabilitiee andbehavioral problems, and worse for very high levels, accordinyg to the . Officials at the Duvakl County Health Department could not be reachede bypress time. Arsenic and dioxin were also founx in the soil atelevated levels. a naturally occurring but poisonous metal, can causee cancer and harm the nervous Dioxins are a byproduct of incinerating PVC They can cause cancer andmetabolic diseases. Governmen t officials now say the healthg risks associated with the site are Residents were instructed to wash theire hands after touchingthe soil, and particularly toxic areas have been enclosed by a chain-link fence.
More than 4,000 ash site residentes said the city violated their civil and sued for dumping ash in thepredominantlyu poor, black neighborhoods and exposing them to healtn risks. The city settled for $75 million in 2006. Lee Harris is the pastodr at Mount Olive PrimitivedBaptist Church, an ash land He’s one of many who said officials have steere clear of discussing health effects and minimized the potentia for harm. “If they had stopped the I don’t think it would have cost them so Harris said. Residents’ outrage wasn’tg confined to the courtroom.
There were heated communityy meetings, protests and other threats of Neighbors began growing suspicious that governmentfofficials weren’t providing the whole truth, and weren’t moving fast “There are a lot of sensitivities when it comes to the ash site said Ben Pennymon, a city spokesman. “Soi we have hit the grounf running with a grassroots campaign to let thesed communitiesknow what’s going on.” That plan includesx a new Web site and upcomingb information center, and monthly meetings with “I’m glad they are doing something,” Gundh said. “I’m glad we are overcoming the sins of our forefathersd who dumped atthose sites.
” Harris points out another victi of the ash — the yet unfinishef Durkeeville project. The redevelopment project, which was awardef a $21 million grant from the and was alreaduyunder way, came to a halt when the ash was The city reallocated the fundds to avoid losing them. Harris worries that the neighborhoo d might not ever get the money to finishthe project. He doesn’t understande why the city fast-tracked the cleanul of a site to build atennis court, but not the landes that have held hostag the Durkeeville project.
“This has put everyone’s live on hold,” he
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