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Sunday, November 4, 2012

claire mccaskill rally in st. louis monday

invite you to join Claire McCaskill on Monday for our final Get Out the Vote Rally in St. Louis County. Your support throughout the campaign has been tremendous — without it, we wouldn't be in the position we're in today — but this race is still close and we need to fight until the end. Only one thing matters now: turning out Claire's supporters on Election Day. And your support at this rally will help us send a message that Missourians are excited to reelect a Senator on our side. We need to knock on as many doors as possible between now and Tuesday, so if you can't make it to the rally on Monday please sign up to help us Get Out the Vote. Hope you'll join us at the event, Justin Vail Outreach Director McCaskill for Missouri 2012 Monday, November 5 WHAT: Claire at a GOTV Rally in Bridgeton WHEN: 6:30 PM WHERE: Machinists District 9 Hall, 12365 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton, MO 63044

Army: No risk from secret St. Louis tests - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times

Army: No risk from secret St. Louis tests - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times

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ST. LOUIS — An Army investigation into secret chemical testing in impoverished areas of St. Louis during the Cold War era has corroborated three previous studies that the testing posed no health risk to those who lived in the areas, according to a letter from a top Army official.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Army used motorized blowers atop a low-income housing high-rise, on schools and in other locations to spray zinc cadmium sulfide, a fine fluorescent powder, into the air. The testing was part of a biological weapons program and St. Louis was chosen because it bore some resemblance to Russian cities that the U.S. might attack.

Both of Missouri's U.S. senators, Republican Roy Blunt and Democrat Claire McCaskill, wrote to the Army after learning of St. Louis professor Lisa Martino-Taylor's research about the program.

Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army, said in a letter received by Blunt's office on Friday that Army investigators reviewed several assessments and studies compiled over the past nearly two decades and found no health risk from the zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) sprayed in St. Louis.

Martino-Taylor's research also raised concerns that the Army performed radiation testing by mixing radioactive particles with the zinc cadmium sulfide.