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Restaurant UNSATISFACTORY Inspections
Restaurant inspections in Atlantic City are unsatisfactory--as are the results of these inspections. According to law, restaurants are to be inspected at least once a year, but this investigation found restaurants that had not been visited by an inspector in three or four years. A shortage of inspectors, an outdated logging system and a lack of training contribute to the problem. The article also notes that the quality of inspections varies from county to county.
Tags: restaurant; inspection; safety; health; fast food; dinning; sanitation; health department
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Coming to Atlantic City: The New Immigrants
Taking off from the census in 2000, The Press details the increasing diversification in Atlantic City's populace. Starting off with being one in ten, the figures now say that one in four residents of the casino city are foreign immigrants. The surge in immigrant population is attributed to the casinos itself that threw themselves open for cheap labor doing menial jobs. This is has now given rise to a thickly diversified population, with people from all across the world coming to A.C. for want of bread, and some extra butter too.
Tags: Tien Nguyen; Harshad Joshi; Hector Alvarez; Scott E. Stetzer; Ben Flogetto; diversity rating; Julie Pham
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School Boards Rack Up Travel Expenses
Several area school boards waste public money by traveling at the expense of taxpayers. "One district spent more than $40,000 on out-of-state travel, enough to hire a teacher. Another spent $20,000, more than what it spends on field trips for students. State officials called the traveling excessive."
Tags: school boards; public money; education conferences; Atlantic City; New Jersey schools; Pleasantville; NJ
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Not What the Doctor Order
The Press of Atlantic City attempts to explain why prescription errors occur, and how often. The newspaper attributes the problems to, among other things, too few pharmacists and "too many drugs that sound and look alike."
Tags: prescription drugs; errors; misfill; pharmacists
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Your Right to Know
In response to a revemping of the state open records laws, the Press of Atlantic City published this guide for citizens on exactly what the law involved. The guide outlines exemptions to the law, how to make a request, a list of public documents, and even includes a typical open records request sheet.
Tags: Public records; FOI; open records
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A Home for Sidney: A Story of Choices.
The 2000 Census shows nearly 60,000 grandparents in New Jersey are taking on a parenting role -- again -- late in life. The Press of Atlantic city examines not just the numbers, but also through the experiences of one area family. The three-part story is about Delores Debman, a Pleasantville woman, and her baby grandson, Sidney Dabney III, and how their lives change. Analysis of 2000 Census statistics on grandparents responsible for grandchildren accompanies the story in sidebars and charts.
Tags: grandparents; 2000 Census statistics; Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
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New Jersey fails to protect its wetlands
The Atlantic City Press reveals how weak enforcement has made "a mockery out of the county's toughest wetlands law." The major findings are that "the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection took forever to resolve cases" and that "penalties were so light that it made economic sense for wetland violators to take their chances." Violators often filled wetlands illegally and this resulted in flooding of the adjacent houses. Another finding is that a state agency created to develop new wetlands has done nothing over the 13 years of its existence.
Tags: Wetlands Mitigation Council; Army Corps of engineers; storm water; buffer areas; floods; rainstorms
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Atlantic City Special Police Detail Not so Special for Taxpayers
The Press of Atlantic City investigates a police program that allows officers to moonlight as security guards. A newspaper review of 2000 payroll records reveal that officers often called in sick and then worked as security guards for more than eight hours, thereby collecting sick pay and compensation for working security.
Tags: Atlantic City; abuses; police; pay; security guards; moonlighting
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The Profits of Doom
Atlantic Monthly describes how "one of the most polluted cities in America" - Butte, Montana - "learns to capitalize on its contamination." The story depicts "waste heaps laced with lead and arsenic" and "tainted waters" as legacies of the mining business that has been flourishing in Butte for decades. The reporter looks at a Butte-based engineering company, Mountain States Energy, which "saw its chance in the national discomfort with repositories as a permanent solution for toxic waste." The investigation reveals that, under the former city mayor's guidance, the company has "managed to assume control over research grants for a wide range of advanced cleanup technologies," and has opened "the possibility that an entirely new industry might come to life on these polluted grounds."
Tags: EPA; copper ore; sulfuric acid; mining; immigrants; pollution; contamination; government funding
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The Real Deal
Kent examines the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) and the effect this organization has on Atlantic City. The CRDA, formed 16 years ago, is an organization that has already spent more than $500 million on urban renewal projects, most of them in Atlantic City,
Tags: Atlantic City; CRDA; casinos; gambling