[Willie Green]

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[lelio]

Boyer believes the displaced smelter workers can be retrained to work in health care as respiratory therapists and licensed practical nurses; the pay would be about $10 to $14 an hour.

Woo hoo, going from a $24 / hr job to a $10-14/hr one. Is that progress?

Bush won over Gore with 1,189,924 to 1,111,138 votes. Have 70k people had their lifestyles downsized in those three years?

[woofer]

That's a shame, I repaired and replaced a few transformers at the Glover Smelter. Back then it was St. Joe Lead. Did some switchgear work at the old St. Joe smelter in Herculaneum MO, too. A lot of changes over the last twenty years.

Used to be three big lead companies in the Viburnum area. St. Joe, Doe Run and Asarco. Doe Run was the last dog running. But it got run down anyway.

[Swiss]

"The roads. That's what killed business here," said Jeannette Schrum, an owner of the Parlor, a 95-year-old former funeral home now revived as a bed and breakfast.

"Getting anything in and out of here is really hard."

Cheaney, the newspaper editor, agreed: "It's all two-lane, twisty, windy, no-shoulder road."

All of Missouri has suffered from the road situation but Billions of State taxpayers money was not used for roads but went to Kansas City and St Louis school districts by orders of Federal Judges to improve racial balance and improve scores (which never happened)