Author: floridagal

We are seeing this week the turning against the president from his own.  They trusted him.  They thought he would appoint someone who would advance the ideology they wanted.  I don’t know if the Democrats...

It appears to be going the way of all Superfund cleanup sites, which means it just won’t get cleaned up.  I gather the program has been defunded.  

It’s hard to find pictures of Mount Dioxin in Pensacola.   I did find this aerial view.    Looks like the EPA in its infinite wisdom has decided to just cover it and not decontaminate.   Even those in the city who had been going along with not doing much about it are now irate.  

ETC was a former wood-treating company. The facility occupies 26 acres in an industrial area, but three African-American residential neighborhoods are in the immediate vicinity of ETC. The site was first developed for creosote wood preserving in 1941. Penta-chlorophenol (PCP) has been used as a preservative at the site since 1963 and was the only preservative used after 1970. Manufacturing activities have not taken place at the facility since October 1982, and the site was officially abandoned through bankruptcy proceedings in February 1991.

Just sit down and shut up, quit rocking the boat….Amy Sullivan sort of threatens women’s rights groups that if they don’t go along with the moderates in the party they won’t get their backing on supreme...

They don’t really go together except in one way.  They were both explained in full a year ago this September.   Recent events reminded me that in his book last year Howard Dean addressed both issues.  He...

Highways are always jammed before hurricanes.  They knew it would happen.  I have very deep feelings about the mess on the highways there.  If the jams continue, those people could be without recourse to shelter...