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Uploaded by on Dec 7, 2008

USA TODAY examines the impact of industrial pollution outside the nation's schools and explores how toxic chemicals shuttered one elementary school in Addyston, Ohio, three years ago.

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  • So has anything been found since 2005, There are many elderly people that are over 80 that live in Addyston, that have lived there their whole life, so maybe Mrs. B needs to tell them to drop dead so she and the EPA can prove a point. The point that they don't care about the people affected. So tell those old folks to go down so Mrs. B looks like the super dooper woman for the TRD....

  • Imagine this; if addyston kid's were the one's attending this school, there would not have been such a fuss. Why?; Because their kid's were not going to this school. But as always crap roll's down hill. Hmm. Yep. the crap on the hill. You know, those folks that are too good to deal with reallity. I got a jar of dirt, guess what's inside it.....TRD

  • the US Pipe foundry gave it to them. So now that they legally own it after all this termoil, they got the votes (due to Mrs. B getting the highschool kids involved) got what they wanted. Those kids that voted don't own propery in saylor park or addyston, well that shows they have nothing to lose. Stick it in and break it off!!! Yep, that's what happened. But worked out well for those well to do folks up on the hill in the Three Rivers District. They hate Sayor park and Addyston. Go TRD!!

  • Am I saying this company or companies is right, No! But it was not alway's a chemical plant. It started as the US Pipe foundry. Which truthfully owned the Addyston school, Mrs. B had to fight for the ownership of the school from them. They did not own the school when this all took place. Even after the school was shut down they did not legally own the property. Of course many like Mr. L like to say different. But the truth be known they did not legally own the property till cont.

  • And oh, I forgot to mention that the EPA got millions of dollars in fines from this company, but what about the family in the video??? Oh that's right they also got nothing, but the EPA gained millions of dollars in fines from this. Jeeez come on!! Wake up folks politics suck balls.

  • USA Today must have liked the blow job and pay off they got from Mrs. B. Hope you enjoyed yourself. While the rest of us are throwed under the bus. You , USA Today helped her put us there. Congrats. Bet you feel good about that.!!

  • So here the citizens of Saylor park sit with nothing while the three rivers shool district benifits from this. But the people that were actully affected gets nothing. Oh by the way if you look for the EPA people that were on this case and made the decisions, they can no longer be found to talk with. Why is that? HMMM

  • And the EPA monitoring is a complete joke!!!! They monitored for a while, the school closed, the goal was accomplished. But after the school closed the EPA said they would continue to monitor. HA what a joke. They monitored after the school closed and found nothing, but EPA did not report that due to the fact that it would impair the voters decision to pass the levy for the new school. Wake up people!!! Oh thats right can't do that when Mrs. B is up your butt. Your paid to shut up.

  • By the way, Three Rivers school district got 700 thousand something as a settlement from this plant, Saylor park got nothing, and OH thats right Addyston got nothing. People that were actually affected from this got nothing. Mrs. B and her citizens rights activists people got what they wanted. The school was closed. She wanted this to happen so the school closed and they could put a new levy on the ballot for a new school. People wanted a new school, but not like this. Moving on.

  • OK so the video talks about addyston, but the smoke stacks they show on the video is not from the plant across the street. Mrs. B has one hell of an impact. Some one has gotten some serious pay off''s. If dude is from saylor park they should not have a problem selling their house considering Addyston was the one affected by this. Oh, that's right our wind flows east toward's sayor park, so let's close hitchens and not the school in saylor park. HMMM. seems strange too me. So Saylor park now what

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