Saying No to Superfunding

While Mayoral Candidate Monty Burns would never want to clean up the Gowanus Canal (what's a little gonorrhea bacteria?), Mayor Bloomberg wants it spic n' span for developers and investors. And he doesn't want help from no stinkin' EPA either. The director of the Center for Urban Innovation now agrees that Superfunding the site would be setback; in his editorial for the Post he says that while someone may benefit (Mother Nature?) the neighborhoods around the canal will not.

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i like the sound of superfunding. what is it? We can work things out!!!! Clean up that awful oil spill. PLEASE MOBIL/EXXON!@!! I buy your products for my vehicle and want respect too!!!

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