News releases you won’t see from Com Ed anytime soon. From Wisconsin Electric in Milwaukee: “Two large wind turbines specially designed for the Midwest’s lower wind speeds are scheduled to be installed on the bluffs near De Pere in southern Brown County, Wis., this fall.”
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“State politicians sit on funding that could eliminate household lead hazards in at least one community,” reports Carl Vogel in The Neighborhood Works (April/May). “Since September, the State of Illinois has had $1.2 million in a bank account, the first installment of $6 million for a three-year, community-based lead abatement program, courtesy of a federal Centers for Disease Control grant.” The money would go to the Community Lead Poisoning Initiative to test every child in a six-square-block area on the west side, and then to identify and eliminate the sources of any significant level of lead in their bodies. Unfortunately, “until the Illinois General Assembly appropriates the money, the project administrators–community groups from the Near West Side–can only make preliminary plans.”
PC test: who’s talking here? The following statement is politically correct if it’s the Midwest Center for Labor Research (MCLR) decrying corporate subsidies. It’s politically incorrect if it’s U.S. representative Henry Hyde decrying environmental regulations. You make the call: “Despite their huge investments, most states and municipalities are not performing comprehensive cost-benefit analyses nor requiring detailed performance reports. They cannot say, with any certainty, that the deals are paying off or will pay off in the future.” Answer: MCLR Newsletter (spring). Unfortunately, the statement is true in both cases.
Up, Up, and Away Parasail, Inc.: “The parasailor departs from the deck of the boat, is carried into the air as a wench is released slowly and then lands back on the deck–safe and dry.”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Illustration/Carl Kock.
