by Flatley Read | Dec 8, 2021 | Community Development
Many communities that are working very hard to revitalize their downtown neighborhoods wrestle with the issue of what makes sense for the future of dilapidated white elephant buildings that dominate their streetscapes. Often, these buildings are vacant movie...
by Flatley Read | Nov 30, 2021 | Community Development
I had the great good fortune last evening to attend a talk by Temple Grandin, a professor at Colorado State, and a leading advocate for persons with autism. I was fascinated during the question and answer period by the number of young people who asked intelligent...
by Flatley Read | Nov 17, 2021 | Lead
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its blood lead reference value – the level at which children ages 1-5 are considered to have high exposure to lead. Since 2012, this threshold had been set at 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood;...
by Flatley Read | Nov 16, 2021 | EPA, Uncategorized
The State of New York currently has a Request for Proposals available for an administrator of a loan fund for a new residential loan program called Resilient Retrofits. Since this week is also when the world is meeting in Glasgow, Scotland to discuss climate...
by Flatley Read | Nov 2, 2021 | Community Development
Sometimes, the process of creating change in your neighborhood starts with meeting your neighbors and engaging them in the conversation about how your community looks, how it works, and which of your neighbors struggle and why. It is extremely difficult to make...
