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Details on Green Impact Zone are sparse so far

07/03/2009 11:34 PM

For all the national attention that Kansas City’s proposed Green Impact Zone has received, it’s still too early to tell much about what it will look like. Organizers know what they want to do — make the 150-block zone in the urban core more energy efficient — but they’re still hammering out the details of a plan that would spend about $200 million in federal stimulus money on green projects and job training.

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Worthy civil rights cause struggles to find funding

In cases of murder, the passage of time is crucial. Let too much pass and witnesses disperse, forget details or die. Victims’ families grow despondent as their hope for justice wanes. And worst of all, someone gets away with murder.

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It seems likely that we will never know what failure of man or machine it was that sent a Paris-bound planeload of terrified souls plunging to their deaths in the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil. The definitive answer is contained in recording devices lying on the ocean’s floor at a depth that makes their recovery improbable, perhaps impossible.

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