Archive for January, 2011
01.29.11
Posted in Tanna Kasperowicz at 1:43 AM by Tanna K
It’s difficult to look back in history and solve any medical problems. Today’s historians believe Washington’s final illness was actually bacterial - an infection of the small tissue flap that plugs the entrance to the lungs during swallowing.
It agreed by all that the bleedings inflicted by Washington’s doctors hastened his end. According to Washington‘s medical records, 35% of all the blood in Washington’s body was removed in 12 hours.
One of Washington’s three physicians, Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick, objected to the bleeding, arguing instead for tracheotomy, but she was overruled. Tracheotomy was new in those years, and Washington’s senior physicians wanted to stay with the tried and true treatment of bleeding the patient to death.
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01.24.11
Posted in Cat Dam, Tanna Kasperowicz at 10:19 PM by Tanna K
The first public hearing on the Cohasset Cat Dam Notice of Intent (NOI), engineered and paid for by a citizen’s abutters group called the (self-styled) Environmental 20, will go before the Cohasset Conservation Commission Thursday, Feb. 10 at 7PM, in the basement meeting room of Town Hall.
Cohasset Selecmen jerry-rigged the NOI, recommending that a Cat Dam Advisory committee be comprised of 6 Cat Dam abutters (4 from the E-20 group and 2 from the other side), and 3 citizens at large who have backgrounds in engineering or marine science. However, if no qualified residents can be found, those seats would not be filled. Also, Selectmen stipulated that they alone would select members to be on the committee and this committee would ‘liaise’ with Selectmen on an on-going basis, bypassing Town regulatory boards. Note that no one from a regulatory board would sit on the committee.
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01.19.11
Posted in Cat Dam, Tanna Kasperowicz at 4:03 AM by Tanna K
At its January 18th meeting Cohasset Selectmen voted 4-1 (with Chairman Karen Quigley voting against the process) to adopt a revised citizen’s plan of management for Cat Dam.
Selectmen adopted the group’s revised plan (the January plan) without comment and without noting changes from the group’s December plan or allowing the public or interested parties to comment. Abutter Stephen Brown, not a member of the E-20, addressed Selectmen briefly. He asked that the ConCom be notified that the public had not been permitted to see or comment on this second plan.
Next month, the Conservation Commission is expected to hold a hearing on E-20′s management plan.
Tinytown Unleashed will ask for a copy of this second report tomorrow and will share its contents with readers as soon as possible.
by Tanna Kasperowicz
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