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0 Comments | Buffalo News, Mar 30, 2010
Why is mayor trying to keep PBA from testing for mold?
How can Mayor Byron Brown repeatedly deny any adverse health effects on the employees at the D District Police Station? The city’s own report states several different types of mold were found in the building, including Stachybotrys. Stachybotrys is a very toxic black mold. Exposure can result through inhalation, ingestion and dermal exposure. There are too many health problems from just this mold to list.
An officer complained that many working there were sick. The city then hired a company to clean the air ducts, prior to air quality and other tests. If there are no health risks, then why is the city making it extremely difficult for the Police Benevolent Association to do its own testing? The city is requiring people who go into the building for testing with the union to have a $1 million liability insurance policy on themselves and each vehicle that will be in the parking lot while testing. I’m sure the testing company would be insured, but I know of no one who has a $1 million liability policy on himself or his car.
If the building is as safe as the mayor is saying, then why the major roadblocks and stipulations for the PBA to do its own tests? It makes one wonder what’s really in that building.
Debbie Cordone
Cheektowaga
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Israelis reveal contempt for U.S. with Biden snub
As if we needed any further evidence of Israeli contempt for the United States, and its control over the U.S. political environment, the recent exchange between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government serves as a perfect illustration. First, the Israelis insult Vice President Biden by throwing their plans for further settlement expansion right in his face while he is visiting to try to restart the peace process talks.
When the Obama administration rightly complains that this action undermines the possibility of the peace talks, Benjamin Netanyahu pleads innocence, the U.S. Congress then upbraids President Obama for his impudence and showers Netanyahu with professions of support when he visits the United States.
We are the tail — being wagged by a country that has a blank check from our Congress to pursue its own schemes, regardless of how much harm it causes to the Palestinian people, or how much trouble it causes for us in the Middle East.
Eric A. Gallion
Blasdell
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High taxes, lack of jobs spur many to leave area
As a lifelong Erie County resident, I am often perplexed by the reaction to the Buffalo region when traveling regularly for business
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