1) This technology isn’t fully developed yet and hasn’t been deployed commercially anywhere, meaning even if somehow fast-tracked this scenario could be a decade away in North Tonawanda.
2) The council and residents (present) unanimously don’t want it anyway.
3) Health risks from a tragic accident, environmental contamination, tanked home values, radioactive material storage concerns, disposal problems and more were cited from community members as reasons a “micro” nuclear reactor (they aren’t necessarily “small” but certainly much less so than current large-scale reactors) should not be permitted anywhere in North Tonawanda, including [...]
“Old habits are hard to change in people and especially hard to change in government,” said Paul Wolf, President of the non-partisan, non-profit New York Coalition for Open Government.
“Elected officials should begin 2022 by conducting the public’s business in an open and transparent way,” he said.
“To show their commitment to open government, elected officials serving on a village board, town board, city council or a county legislature should introduce and pass a New Year resolution stating they will:
(1) Post timely notice of all meetings at least one week prior to a [...]
New York City, 2002 — “Sometimes your feelings become your memories.”
Steven Whipple said that’s when he realized his recollection of Sept. 11 was bogus.
Because he lived just two miles from the smoldering, stinking, spewing nightmare of Ground Zero, the former Albion resident reported his Greenwich Village neighborhood seemingly deserted for weeks.
“It was a ghost town,” he said. “No cars, no horns, no people and the restaurants were all shut down.” Then he consulted his journal, which told a different story. “Actually, it says here that it lasted only three days.”
Three days. Three weeks. Or 365 [...]
