| Brief: Commission approves construction of cancer center garage
The Smilow Cancer Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital moved one more step towards reality on Wednesday, when the City Plan Commission unanimously approved the site plan for the garage on the Lot E site. The 845-parking garage was at the center of negotiations completed last fall. Arbitration ended in early October as the hospital agreed to include 24 units of market-priced housing. The housing will be offered to patients undergoing treatment who do not need hospitalization and their families, as well as staff members on a temporary basis. Although more expensive for the hospital, the housing was important for city officials who wanted to avoid having the center isolated from the rest of the community. Retail shops will also surround the mixed-use garage.
Friday wild card
Or the Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce should pick up the tab willingly to settle this ongoing tempest. I'm posting this from home, so I can't provide the rest of my editorial today. But there's enough here to discuss. We think Post Falls should quit acting like a jealous sibling and eat the cost of city services for the Coeur d'Alene Ironman. Are we all wet? .
Chamber honors Vectren executive
As regards to my heating and cooling, I have never had it so good as I do now. 8 Years ago I returned to Indiana and the SIGECO/Vectren system after 38 years in Kentucky. Local folks that complain so much simply do not know how the rest of the (utility systems) world works. Thanks for good, dependable and reasonable priced gas and electric. Note this; I have never and do not now have any relationship with Vectren. hmorgan .
Filed under: NFL
Join us and live in peace or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you. The alien Klaatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) * * * Often something happens in the world of sport that transcends the mundane realities of life. The San Antonio Spurs winning their 4th NBA championship is a recent example. To Spurs fans, at least, that victory will resonate. To some fans it will offer lifelong validation of allegiance to their team. As fans, as human beings navigating this thing we call day-to-day life, we need these moments of transcendence. They help us to put our own toils in a grander perspective; they remind us that we are capable of bigger things. They help us to celebrate our very ordinary human-ness while they illuminate the intricate ways in which sport and history weave themselves into the fabric of our society and into the threads of our being.
The Rise, Fall, Rise, and Imminent Fall of DDT
DDT is probably the single most valuable chemical ever synthesized to prevent disease. It has been used continually in public health programs over the past sixty years and has saved millions from diseases like malaria, typhus, and yellow fever. Despite a public backlash in the 1960s, mainstream scientific and public health communities continue to recognize its utility and safety. DDT's delisting for various uses in the United States in 1972 was a political, not a scientific, judgment. After decades of extensive study and use, DDT has not been proven to be harmful to humans. But by 1997, its future looked bleak. Environmentalists were pushing for it to be banned worldwide, and its most articulate champion, the South African Department of Health, stopped using it. Surprisingly, DDT recovered its reputation, and in 2006 the World Health Organization (WHO) championed it again.
City Briefs
Doctors who treat the poor are getting shortchanged on payments from health insurance companies, according to a report out today. A study by the Primary Care Development Corporation found that city health-care facilities in struggling neighborhoods lose between $28 and $226 per patient visit for routine care, like physicals and the flu, because insurance companies don't cover the full cost. City Controller William Thompson and Council Speaker Christine Quinn called for a reform of the system. Kathleen Lucadamo Poker slay suspect indicted A Florida man was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury yesterday on charges that he killed 55-year-old Frank DeSena on Nov. 2 during a robbery of a private poker parlor near Fifth Ave. and 28th St. The indictment of Steven Perez, 21, of Tampa comes three weeks after William DelValle was charged with the murder.
A TV Ad For Obama
The opening salvo in the presidential air wars is a 30-second spot on health care to be broadcast in the Hartford-New Haven market and on cable systems in Fairfield County, said David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager.
Plouffe declined to say if the campaign will invest in expensive television time in New York, the home turf of Hillary Rodham Clinton. But he said they will compete in New York, even if polls show they cannot win.
The winner-take-all rules of Republican primaries force GOP candidates to carefully target their resources, but the Democratic primaries are proportional races.
"You can aggregate delegates even in someone's backyard, like Sen. Clinton's," Plouffe said.
Plouffe called the Connecticut buy "substantial," but declined to give specifics.
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