I know it has been a while since I last blogged, but I just received an email asking if I was still alive so decided I needed to get back at it.
Something I have not shared yet is that I recently bought an old house and have been putting all my spare time into fixing it up.
Anyway, look for more posts.
The RT reports here that Abingdon has been given the designation of this year’s “American Dream Town.”
Abingdon has won a national Internet voting competition for the 2006 American Dream Town designation, getting more than 20,000 votes.
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The voting was done last year from October to December. Each voter could go to the American Dream Town Web site once a day to cast a ballot, so the number no doubt represents a lot of repeat votes by the same people.
Still, the competition was heavy. Judges screened three nominees from each state, for a total of 150 candidates.
I will have to admit, the time I spent in Abingdon was great and I almost went back there after law school.
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A Michigan environmental group says the chemicals that give us that great new car smell might be dangerous.
It reports that PBDEs, used as fire retardants, and phthalates, used primarily to soften PVC plastics, are found in dangerous amounts in dust and windshield film samples.
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These groups of chemicals have been linked to birth defects, impaired learning, liver toxicity, premature births and early puberty in laboratory animals, among other serious health problems.
Dang - I love that smell.
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