Readers' Comments

AUMF Hunger Strike: Forget #Petitions. Take #DirectAction to #DemandAction to Pass #HR198, Repeal #AUMF 2001 and Undo #NDAA 2012. #AumfHungerStrike: Learn more: bit.ly/10sZfxG

Your the uninformed the professor that did the study based it on the census track that includes Hinkley which more than tripled then number of residents it also did not track down the many families who left and then subsequently had family members die of cancer that is directly related to chromium 6 and cancer is just one of many medical problems that is caused by hexavalient chromium I have talked to the researcher from the cancer registry he just needed to get published and he travels around talking about his fraudulent lazy study I am a layman but have spent a couple of years learning about chromium 6 and how bad it is to humans you need to take the time to learn everything before writing your opinion based of one professor who did it completely research his subject and based it off of a incorrect number remember I spoke to him he works a Loma Limda university and for the cancer registry for San Bernardino county and I new more about the carcenagine then he did. Do not let big business fog your mind they lie, cheat and kill all in the name of money

If you want to be taken seriously as a commenter, telling the writer to "do your research" when you don't specify what you think is wrong with the article accomplishes nothing.

A study released in 2010 by the California Cancer Registry showed that cancer rates in Hinkley "remained unremarkable from 1988 to 2008." An epidemiologist involved in the study said that "the 196 cases of cancer reported during the most recent survey of 1996 through 2008 were less than what he would expect based on demographics and the regional rate of cancer."
This author is uninformed and obviously has a biased opinion. Industry scientists are usually the best around. That is why they are solicited for scientific panels. Science doesn't lie, people do. PG&E was harassed into paying a $333 million settlement of which, Brokovich's firm got $133 million dollars. The legal suit was not "won" by anyone. That's the way most big class action suits work. The law firm gets rich for harassing a company until they decide that it will cost more to keep being harassed than to just pay them to stop harassing.

Chromium is a very heavily regulated chemical. If she can't even find those facts out correctly, what can she "investigate" properly?

The difference between these processes is that the fuel from the plasma gasification process produces fuel that burns so cleanly in vehicles that the exhaust can be breathed. Processing LA's sludge could generate $1.5 million profit a week and reduce LA'a fuel requirements by 1%. What are the characteristics of the process you propose and the byproducts from its use?

The article left out the fact that predatory lending and subsequent foreclosures have massively contributed to the shrinking population and the crumbling tax base. People have been losing homes to mortgage and tax foreclosures all over the city. Plus, the article also failed to mention that the Governor cut revenue sharing to cities to plug holes in the state budget, cut money from schools and gave a huge tax cut to businesses. So now the state has a surplus but cities and school districts all over the state are struggling to stay within their available funds. The fact of the matter is this: No one can financially manage a city or a school district if the Governor and the banksters are strangling the cash flow. Not even the Magic Orr from Chevy Chase.

The history of Emergency Managers (EM) in Michigan clearly indicates that it does not benefit the cities where they have been in power. So who have EMs benefited? They have benefited the banks, creditors, the EMs themselves and their friends. The EMs have only drained the cities dry.

In the U.S., we pride ourselves in our democratic system. There is no justification, and should be no tolerance for Emergency Managers or anyone with dictatorial powers.

Sign our petition at www.wh.gov/wGJK.

They form worker's cooperatives, which have all of the decision making and none of the shareholders. They've been doing well in the wake of being abandoned.

As well, your contempt for an entire city's worth of people and your implication that the manufacturing heart of the USA abscessed because people refused to live like serfs in a company town is heartless and crude.

No matter how bad the finances of Detroit are, the Governor of Michigan and his Teabagger Republicans surely cannot legally set aside elected officials. we need a comprehensive voting act to ban actions like this, gerrymandering, and other attempts to deny voter rights. All Americans ought to be able to get behind such a law. In this particular case, it's hard for me to believe that should a suit be brought before the Supreme Court (much less lower courts), the Michigan EFM law would not be ruled unconstitutional. There is a racist dynamic going on. If white and/or wealthier citizens have fled Detroit, it falls to the state to help pick up some of the bills. My sympathies are with the residents of this great American city.

This is NOT how a democracy functions! These right wing extremists are constantly talking about our founding fathers. The founding fathers would be up in arms over this.

We can always expect the south to stick together. ALEC depends on ignorance to change America slowly to fear and hatred of Democracy. It is a cancer that eventually kills the American dream.