New Orleans The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) had acquired the old Proctor & Gamble soap manufacturing plant relatively speaking for a song. A big, hulking highly visible building on Lamar Street near downtown, the facility became a multi-purpose center for odds and ends of the district large and small. The district is now shuttering …
Tag: lead poisoning
HUD is Wrong on Lead Standards and Must do Right
New Orleans Here’s a simple question that I don’t think will take anyone long to answer, though perhaps it should. Donald Trump and his latest wife have a 9-year old son, Barron. Michelle and Barack Obama moved into the White House with two young daughters whose age at the time was less than two digits. …
This Lead Thing is Serious, Why Aren’t More People Taking it that Way?
New Orleans The stories coming out of Flint, Michigan are a scandal. Political indifference and economic decline coupled with the general unwillingness of our collective will to finance and repair infrastructure has produced the specter of an entire populations reduced to the level of undeveloped countries without potable water to drink. Worse, they are being …