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18 Indian Point sirens fail in test – Lower Hudson News

Greg Clary of LoHud.com (Lower Hudson News) reports that More than 10 percent of the 172 emergency sirens within 10 miles of Indian Point failed to work properly during a quarterly test of the alert system?this morning, according to emergency and plant officials. A spokesman for Entergy Nuclear, which owns and runs Indian Point, said [...]

Vallone, NYPD propose repeal of Enlightenment, modern science

In a proposal that we first thought had been written by The Onion, City Council member Peter F. Vallone, Jr., at the behest of the New York City Police Department, has proposed  legislation which, t use the description of Ellie Engler, of the United Federation of Teachers, would be the equivalent of “universally requiring permits [...]

Mexican Oil Pipelines Attacked at six points, causing fires, evacuations

Kris Alexander at Danger Room has a short report and incisive analysis of these attacks, which PEMEX (Mexico’s oil exporting entity) claims will require hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs. PEMEX also claims – in my view, not plausibly – that it won’t cause disruptions in exports (and to United States imports). Photo by [...]

Good Samaritan killed on Prospect Expressway

From the Times’ “Metro Briefing” on Thursday, page B4 of the print edition, link to online archived version here A man who stopped to help a driver in a disabled car on the Prospect Expressway early yesterday was killed when a drunken driver in a third car smashed into his car and the broken-down vehicle, [...]

“A moment of Stray Voltage”

This is why the Times policy of limiting certain articles to Times Select subscribers is disturbing. I’m going to write now about an actual life-and- death issue for New Yorkers, but can’t link to it because of their restrictions. We regard the following excerpt as within the scope of the “fair use” doctrine of the [...]


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