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On Thursday, Smokefree DC sent the following letter to D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown. We ccd the entire Council. Aug. 25, 2011 The Hon. Kwame Brown Dear Chairman Brown, We’re writing to tell you that the information you relied upon to support your vote for an exemption [...] Flickr photo courtesy of petras_t The New York Legislature has passed a measure that would make train platforms and outdoor areas of the Metro-North and Long Island Railroad smokefree. New York City has already made its platforms smokefree. The bill awaits the governor’s signature. That raises an interesting issue regarding Washington, D.C., transit. Metrorail property is supposed [...] “That’s life.” So muttered the woman next to me at a community meeting convened last night in the Greenbelt Community Center last night to discuss the problem of intrusion of secondhand smoke from one apartment to another. The woman was not very sympathetic to the plight of nonsmokers. What an appalling comment. I wonder how she [...] Flickr photo courtesy of aperryproductions The case of the convoluted budget amendment just got messier. Mayor Vincent Gray has vetoed a measure that was supposed to narrow a huge exemption to the smokefree workplaces law — an exemption that the D.C. Council passed in June without public notice. (They claimed it was an accident.) However, because [...] |
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