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Toxic Landscape: A Neighborhood In Peril
The Record's three-part series "Toxic Landscape: A Neighborhood In Peril" chronicles 30 years of poor decisions, lax enforcement, and bureaucratic indifference by the New Jersey Department of Enviromental Protection that lead to an entire Garfield, N.J. neighborhood becoming a Superfund site last year.
Tags: New Jersey Department of Enviromental Protection; Posion; Garfield; New Jersey
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The Blow the Whistle Project
A U.S. senator killed a crucial piece of legislation by using a maneuver known as a "secret hold." This tactic allows lawmakers to act anonymously and evade accountability.
Tags: secret hold; Congress; whistleblower
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World Business Review Investigation
Bob Garfield reports that the "World Business Review" television program hosted by former Secretary of State Alexander Haig was not the business-news magazine it was posing as to colleges and universities in order to keep tapes of the programs on their library shelves. This was rather a weekly infomercial, charging "interviewees" for their appearance and collaborating with those paying clients in fashioning "interview" questions. Garfield also found that the show was using a slush fund, with a fictitious corporate title, to circumvent federal regulations about paying time and advertising on public TV.
Tags: Alexander Haig; universities; libraries; infomercial; public television; corruption; TAPE; RADIO; transcript
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Gas Pains
Westword reports on drilling-related contamination in the Colorado, and examines complaints of local residents. Conflicts stem from starting more drilling projects on private, instead of public land now. Neighbors vie to protect their so-called "mineral rights" for gas underneath their land, reveals the newspaper. The story examines the overall trend of increasing natural-gas consumption, and points to an estimate that "there are at least tens of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas in the Grand Valley alone."
Tags: Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission; Bureau of Land Management; Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association; directional drilling; conservation; Garfield County; oil
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A Death in Garfield
Doug Most investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the death of Ed "Huff" Kotwica, a high school football and basketball coach at Garfield High School in Garfield, N.J. Kotwica, who once coached New York Jets wide receiver Wayne Chrebet, was a town icon, respected by nearly everyone in the community. However, area law enforcement agencies got wind of a rumor that he had criminal sexual contact with two female players on the girls' basketball team. Following a quick investigation, he was arrested by Garfield police and spent a night in jail. Upon his release the next morning, Kotwica went home and waited for his wife to bring him some breakfast. In the meantime, he went walking on the railroad tracks in town and was hit by an oncoming train. Local authorities have ruled his death a suicide, saying that he was so upset about being caught -- or labeled -- as a criminal that he killed himself. However, many locals are saying there is no way that Kotwica would kill himself or have inappropriate contact with his female players. They claim that Kotwica, who had diabetes, went into hypoglycemic shock while he was walking along the tracks and fell into the oncoming train. While he was in jail, Kotwica did not receive his diabetes medicine or any food to eat.
Tags: Ed Kotwica; Wayne Chrebet; Garfield; New Jersey; death; criminal sexual contact