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At some point, presumably, the stink will be gone. But the rest of the hazards will remain, and residents are weary of it all. She is one of many longtime residents organizing to demand answers and remedies.

The human toll of freeway expansion. Alvarez grew up on th Street, a few hundred yards from the channel and across the street from a refinery tank farm. Her family has lived in several units at that location for decades, about 30 of them altogether. Her grandmother died of cancer. Her late grandfather, who worked at the StarKist cannery, had diabetes. Her mother died of a heart attack at Alvarez said that growing up, multiple family members had allergies and respiratory problems.

It was so common, nobody gave it much thought. Her brother, Frank Saldana, is the Carson High football coach and a longshoreman. Six years ago, I wrote about a guy named Martin Saldana, one of thousands who lost their jobs when the Boeing assembly plant at the Long Beach Airport shut down.

I remember visiting Martin Saldana and noting the oil tanks across the street. Martin Saldana, who never found good-paying steady work after losing his job at Boeing, died in of complications from diabetes. He was Overall, air quality in the Los Angeles Basin has improved over the last few decades thanks to pollution control regulations. Rob McConnell, a USC-Keck environmental epidemiologist who has studied the adverse effects of pollutants on children living near industry and roadways.

Due in part to a history of redlining, McConnell said, as well as the lower cost of housing in industrial and highway corridors, many of the most impacted areas are working-class communities of color. Johnston has been part of a program called the Community Emissions Reduction Plan, made possible by legislation that brought community groups, businesses and authorities together to set clean air goals and monitor the progress.

One of her associates in that effort is Jesse Marquez, founder of Community for a Safe Environment, an activist for half a century. Click the link we sent to , or click here to log in. I was thinking about the French take on puer. Reputation is something that clings to one like a bad odor. Someone of ill repute has the odor of their ill-viewed practices upon them. The crude, abbreviated word for sex-worker in French is pute. The women who practiced the oldest profession were considered unclean.

When the French want to use the "f-word" they say "putain", a longer form of the word for a prostitute, interestingly. Backbencher Subscribe Sign in. About Archive Help Sign in. Share this post. Why do we say "P.

A Backbencher investigation. Timothy Noah. Asked if he was aware of the weblog backlash, he answered: "What we are aware of is that individuals and others link to our site without an agreement, and we have a Web policy clearly outlined. The policy he refers to -- posted on the company's website -- states, "KPMG is obligated to protect its reputation and trademarks and KPMG reserves the right to request removal of any link to our website.

He said that this was not a new policy, nor was it unusual. Indeed, he wondered why this was considered newsworthy at all, as "many organizations do this. And Ledwith is right -- others have tried to enforce linking rules. Last year, Ticketmaster alleged that a rival company, Tickets. But Ticketmaster lost that bid. District Judge Harry Hupp.