The one local issue few elected officials truly want to tackle is the environment. It’s too expensive, too complicated and just too scary to face. Yet any one who has lived here any length of time can rattle off a list of friends, family members, church members and fellow workers who have been stricken with cancer – and not just lung cancer.
I found this article in the Herald Tribune about the families of cancer victims in Bradenton, Florida that are questioning whether contamination at their Bayshore High School may be at the root of the rare cancers killing their loved ones.They have counted 63 cancer cases among alumni and former staff of the old school. Another 20 report their children had birth defects.
