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Policies to Reduce Lead Exposure: Lessons from Buffalo and Rochester
Full text linkLead exposure remains a major issue in cities, such as Buffalo and Rochester, with concentrated, segregated poverty and old, deteriorated housing stock. Exploring and comparing local policies and programs in these two cities, the author suggests that increasing the number of proactive housing inspections in high-risk areas and forming a single-purpose non-profit group dedicated to lead education and advocacy are two valuable interventions. He recommends additional policy steps, such as more stringent inspection standards; state adoption of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Renovation and Repair Program; the lowering of state elevated blood level thresholds; a focus on in-person, interactive education by community health workers; and more vigorous enforcement of testing requirements among physicians
City of Buffalo 2008-2009 Budgets and Four Year Plans
Full text linkI am writing on behalf of the Partnership for the Public Good (PPG) to comment on the City of Buffalo’s 08-09 Action Plan Recommendation. PPG is a new collaboration promoting a revitalized, sustainable Buffalo through research and advocacy. Our 2008 Platform has been endorsed by over 30 organizations, including Belmont Shelter, Catholic Charities, Community Action, Cornell University ILR School, PUSH Buffalo, the Homeless Alliance of Western New York, and the Center for Urban Studies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Affordable Housing and the Environment in Buffalo, New York
Full text linkBuffalo is suffering from severe housing and environmental problems, many of which overlap. New housing continues to sprawl into the suburbs and exurbs, despite a large surplus of housing units in Buffalo, where the City plans to demolish 10,000 units in the next ten years. In general, housing is not being designed, built, or renovated in an environmental manner. Our outdated housing policies and choices contribute significantly to pollution, both locally and globally: the region gets a failing grade for air quality; the city has 68 sewage overflows per year; and residential energy use is the largest source of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions. Air pollution affects people with low incomes the most severely, and, with the advent of climate change, it has the potential to make millions of people homeless around the globe
Buffalo’s Outer Harbor: The Right Place for a World-Class Park
Full text linkBuffalo’s Outer Harbor is a stunning natural area in a remarkable location. This report details the natural, historic, and recreational assets of the Outer Harbor and its connections to nearby parks and trails
Responding to New York's Budget Crisis
Full text linkWealthy individuals and big businesses have benefited dramatically from reduced taxes and increased subsidies, and they should make a fair contribution to resolving New York’s budget crisis. Taxes on the very wealthy and reduction of corporate welfare will do much more to reinvigorate the economy and restore fiscal health than drastic cuts in health and education spending.Government__Responding_to_New_York_s_Budget_Crisis.pdf: 18 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Responding to New York\u27s Budget Crisis
Full text linkWealthy individuals and big businesses have benefited dramatically from reduced taxes and increased subsidies, and they should make a fair contribution to resolving New York’s budget crisis. Taxes on the very wealthy and reduction of corporate welfare will do much more to reinvigorate the economy and restore fiscal health than drastic cuts in health and education spending
Working Toward Equality: Employment and Race in Buffalo
Full text linkFor all of the progress that our nation and our community have made toward equality, we remain plagued by severe racial disparities in many aspects of life. Perhaps none is more troubling or more important than inequality in employment. Access to a good job is, for most people, the key to a good life. Something is sorely amiss when the black and Hispanic unemployment rates in Erie County are more than twice those of whites, and when people of color are earning just over 70 cents for every dollar earned by whites
Legal Scholarship for Equal Justice: Summary of Panel Discussion
Full text linkIn 2002, a group of professors, deans, equal justice practitioners, and a Minnesota Supreme Court justice formed a Legal Scholarship for Equal Justice committee (LSEJ) to explore ways to link the work of professors and students to the equal justice issues faced by the bench and bar in our state. Since then, LSEJ has become a formal project of the Minnesota Justice Foundation, a nonprofit group that works at the four Minnesota law schools to integrate public service into the law school experience. So far, LSEJ has created an issues list, a class, and an annual symposium. The issues list contains topic descriptions and contact information for equal justice research-and-writing projects identified by practitioners or academics. Available at www.lsej.org, the list can be used by professors and students searching for topics for law review articles, independent research projects, and term papers. The list also forms the basis for the new “Equal Justice: Advanced Research” class rotating through the four schools and described by Eric Janus in an article in this issue. To generate more ideas and inspiration for equal justice scholarship, LSEJ also instituted an annual symposium to bring national equal justice scholars together with local equal justice scholars and practitioners. In selecting our first keynote speaker, we turned to an obvious choice: James Liebman, whose careful, empirically based studies of the death penalty system and its failure rate have radically altered public debate and public policy. After his address, reprinted in this issue, he joined our local panel of three professors and one practitioner to address the interplay of scholarship and practice. The panel discussion does an excellent job in providing examples of how legal scholarship has helped equal justice advance in the past, what some of the barriers to equal justice are, and how those barriers can be overcome so that academics like Liebman, Magee, Balos, and Janus, along with practitioners like Thompson who have successfully bridged the gap between theory and practice, become the norm instead of exceptions. The following panelist comments were drawn from transcription of the event held at William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 24, 2003. The panel participants reviewed this written form prior to publication
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