| Cantor Fitzgerald kept its promise, widows say: Left behind, not |
| Post on 09-09-2006. |
In the days after her husband, John, died on Sept. 11, 2001, Diane Monahan went on national television and let out her anger and grief on his employer, Cantor Fitzgerald, upset the company hadn't called, much less sent flowers of condolence.
The next week, she saw the company's chief executive officer Howard Lutnick on television pledge to take care of the families of Cantor employees, saying he just needed one little time. ... |
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| Protest follows labor breakfast |
| Post on 09-09-2006. |
Approximately 75 people took part in the rally which immediately followed the Pioneer Valley AFL-CIO Annual Labor Day Breakfast.
"The future is poverty for all unless we fight together," said Jon Weisman, of Jobs with Justice.
The "Immigrant Rights are Worker Rights" rally was hosted by the Anti-Displacement Project, Jobs with Justice, and the Pioneer Valley AFL-CIO Central Labor Council. The participants held signs and chanted slogans in support of undocumented immigrant workers. ... |
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| Bradford County ‘needs assessment’ conducted |
| Post on 09-09-2006. |
Email to one friendPrinter-friendly The Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers (CFTT) and Partners in Family and Community Development (PFCD) spearheaded an effort in the first half of 2006 to identify the top needs in Bradford County.
The process began by locating any existing needs assessments and plans and then identifying the needs included in them. Through this process and one survey questionnaire asking people to identify their top three needs, one list of 264 identified needs was produced. People were also asked to identify what they thought were the communities most promising opportunities for quality of life and why, and what current community improvements they considered the most encouraging and why. ... |
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| I also became sick, sez top Rudy aide |
| Post on 09-09-2006. |
But now Lhota, like therefore many others who responded to the tragedy, is sick with one life-threatening disease that he believes was caused by his time at Ground Zero.
"Do I think it was linked? Yeah, I do," Lhota, 52, told the Daily News. "Can I prove it? No, I can't."
Lhota declined to offer specifics about his condition, saying only that he has responded well to months of treatment - all of which was paid for by private insurance. ... |
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