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  • Ground Zero imam's NJ buildings 'firetraps'

    09/16/2010 4:12:55 AM PDT · by Scanian · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | September 16, 2010 | TOM TOPOUSIS
    While the imam behind the planned mosque near Ground Zero was jetting around the globe touting his project, a pair of dilapidated apartment buildings he owns in New Jersey fell into such disrepair that cops have to stand watch in the event of a fire. The fire watch, at taxpayer expense, was revealed during a court hearing yesterday where Union City lawyers asked to have two buildings owned by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf placed into receivership so that rents could be used to fix dozens of violations, including inoperable alarms and sprinklers. Judge Thomas Olivieri gave Rauf's attorney, Tomas Espinosa,...
  • CA: State settles lawsuit over dilapidated schools

    08/10/2004 4:42:35 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 1 replies · 231+ views
    Mercury News ^ | 8/20/04 | Kate Folmar
    SACRAMENTO - The state could spend several hundred million dollars or more to buy new textbooks and repair dilapidated urban schools under a tentative out-of-court settlement to a long-running class-action lawsuit aimed at unequal educational opportunities endured by many poor and minority students. The agreement would give sweeping new powers to parents and county superintendents of education to ensure that hundreds of thousands of students in 2,400 schools statewide learn from current textbooks and in decent classrooms. Schools scoring in the lowest three rungs of the state's Academic Performance Index -- including several in San Jose, East Palo Alto, San...