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July 20, 2010
September 11 Deadline
If you did rescue, recovery or cleanup work, paid or volunteer, in the year after Sept. 11, 2001, your WTC-12 Form must be received by Sept. 10, 2010, and your NYCERS Form 622 by Sept. 11 to protect your right to Workers' Comp benefits and a disability pension. For more information, click on link. www.wtc-exams.org.
http://www.nycosh.org/pdfs/WTC-12_08.pdf

July 18, 2010
Colleges Offer More Courses on Counterterrorism and Emergency Management
More American colleges are offering classes that teach students to deal with a shrinking and increasingly dangerous world. Whole programs — anti-terrorism, emergency management, cybersecurity, environmental pollution control — are designed to prepare students for lucrative careers battling the things that scare us. Click on link to read article.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128538107

July 17, 2010
9/11 Health Care Bill (HR 847) Near Vote in Congress
If passed, bill would provide $10.5 billion in health care and compensation to 9/11 responders and others affected by the disaster. Click on link to read article.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/07/17/2010-07-17_house_hot_on_911_bill_pelosi_to_pitch_a_105b_plan_to_pay_for_health_care.html

July 6, 2010
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Continuing Needs of Communities Affected by 9/11
Dr. John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and others testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The Senate hearing was the first on a bill providing compensation to rescue and cleanup workers whose health was damaged by exposure to environmental risks at the World Trade Center site. Click on link to read testimony presented by Dr. Howard and others.
http://help.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=6136100d-5056-9502-5d04-a183825e9a8b

June 23, 2010
Lawyers in 9/11 Health Lawsuits Reveal Range of Settlement Payments
Information on compensation payments to people who became ill as as a result of their work during the 9/11 rescue and recovery efforts was released yesterday. The payment schedule involves 10 categories which in addition to death include cancer, respiratory ailments, and gastro-intestinal illnesses and other disorders. The amounts will range from under $10,000 to more than $1,000,000. Click on link to read article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/nyregion/23settlement.html?ref=nyregion

June 22, 2010
NY Elected Officials Continue to Push for 9/11 Health Bill
The U. S Senate will hold its first hearing on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act on June 29th. A House version of the bill has been endorsed by two committees, but has yet to come up for a vote. The House bill would pay up to $8.2 billion to people who fear they might have been sickened by the dust, and set aside another $5.1 billion for medical care. Click on link to read article.
http://dnainfo.com/20100618/financial-district-battery-park-city/911-health-bill-gets-first-senate-hearing-this-month

June 17, 2010
9/11 Workers Attend NYC Forum on Health Settlement
More than a hundred people have gathered at a town hall meeting for 9/11 recovery and rescue workers suing New York City. A law firm representing most of the plaintiffs in the 9/11 health litigation organized Wednesday's gathering to explain a proposed $713 million settlement.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hbFu_USPHXmnxTOR0tOnrbYrckcwD9GCP7080

June 15, 2010
Potential Conflict Seen Between WTC Health Suit Settlement and James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act
Two potential benefits for those suffering from 9/11 related illnesses may require elegible beneficiaries to choose between them. People opting to benefit from the pending $713 million agreement between the City of New York and 9/11 Health Suit litigants, may disqualify themselves from any benefits available under the James Zadroga Health and Compensation Bill being considered by congress. Click on link to learn more.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100611/ap_on_re_us/us_attacks_health

June 10, 2010
New Agreement Reached in 9/11 Health Suit Case
A new settlement has been reached between the City of New York and lawyers representing over 10,000 litigants who claim they were made ill by exposure to toxic materials during the rescue, recovery, and cleanup at the World Trade Center. Click on link to learn more.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-10/nyc-9-11-workers-reach-712-5-million-injury-claims-settlement.html

June 8, 2010
NYC to Close 9/11 Mental Health Benefits Program
The New York City Department of Health has announced that it will be ending the 9/11 Mental Health benefits Program at the end of 2010. The NYC 9/11 Benefit Program for Mental Health and Substance Use Services is funded and overseen by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, with benefit access coordinated by the Mental Health Association of New York City. The program includes: reimbursement for covered out-of-pocket costs for mental health and substance use services; benefit coordinators to help with eligibility and enrollment; trained agents to process claims and answer claims-related questions. While mental health related services will still be available to 9/11 first responders through the 9/11 Health Centers of Excellence, others in the program will be forced to seek services elsewhere.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/City-to-Cut-Mental-Health-Program-for-WTC-Responders-95693109.html

May 28, 2010
Deadlines Approaching for WTC Workers’ Compensation, Disability
Two important deadlines are approaching for rescue, recovery, and cleanup workers who served at the World Trade Center. To learn more about registering for Workers’ Compensation and Disability by September 2010 click on link.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/2007-3.shtml

May 27, 2010
9/11 Memorial and Google Earth offer Virtual Tour of Memorial
A partnership between the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Google, which donated its 3D Google Earth technology, has created an online tour of the eight acre memorial site at the World Trade Center.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/26/2010-05-26_sept_11_memorial__museum_construction_can_be_seen_in_vivid_detail_with_new_googl.html

May 25, 2010
Center For Biosecurity's “Resilient American Communities” Report
On December 10, 2009, the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC convened an invitational conference in Washington, DC, to apply state-of-the-art knowledge of resilience to the design of federal policies that will strengthen local communities and their environments to withstand disasters, epidemics, and terrorism. The event was hosted in collaboration with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and the Natural Hazards Center of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Among the 140 participants were U.S. government officials, congressional staff, policy analysts, scholars, public health and emergency management practitioners, heads of private and nonprofit initiatives to reduce disaster risk, and members of the media. Click on link to read conference summary.
http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/events/2009_resilient_american/pdf/Conf_Summary.pdf

May 3, 2010
The World Before and After, a Webcast Produced by the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
The continuing impact of the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the United States and the global community will be explored through this webcast series. The monthly webcasts were produced exclusively for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and are hosted by Clifford Chanin, Senior Program Advisor at the Memorial Museum. Each month new interview segments will be posted on this section of the website. Click on link to follow the series.
http://www.national911memorial.org/site/PageServer?pagename=new_history_exploring

April 29, 2010
Legislation Introduced in U.S. Senate to Honor Those Who Died in Terror Attacks on or After 9/11
Introduced by six Senators, including Senators Arlen Specter and Bob Casey, S. 369 would provide for a medal of appropriate design to be awarded by the President to the next of kin or other representative of those individuals killed as a result of terrorist attacks.
http://www.bignews.biz/?id=864979&keys=Senator-Bob-Casey-TerroristAttacks

April 20, 2010
Essay by Former President Clinton on Oklahoma City Bombing
President Clinton reminds Americans of the tragedy that can ensue when political dissent turns violent. Click on link to read statement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/opinion/19clinton.html?ref=opinion

April 15, 2010
NYC Appeals Judge's Ruling in 9/11 Health Suits Case
Lawyers representing the the City of New York have filed an appeal seeking to nullify Judge Alvin Hellerstein's decission blocking the agreement reached between lawyers for the plaintiffs and the City. Specifically the city is appealing an order by the judge to have judicial control over the selection of those chosen to oversee the settlement and the doctors retained to assess claims. It also is appealing a ruling that revised the schedule for implementing the settlement and a ruling that called for an additional hearing in the case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/nyregion/15zero.html?src=mv

April 13, 2010
The Importance of the Nuclear Security Summit in Preventing Terrorism
The 47-nation Nuclear Security Summit being held in Washington, DC has implications for reducing and protecting the massive supply of nuclear material that terrorists seek. Click on link to read article.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2010-04-13-editorial13_ST_N.htm

April 9, 2010
National 9/11 Museum and Memorial
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center, which is scheduled to open to the public in September 2012, will feature re-creations of the vigils and makeshift memorials that sprang up around the city and the eight-month cleanup of the destroyed World Trade Center in exhibits focusing on New Yorkers' post-9/11 experience. The exhibits will be enhanced with the recorded testimony of witnesses from around the globe, captured in real time by cell phone messages, radio transmissions and video, and in recorded interviews with rescue workers, evacuees and others within minutes of the collapse, Museum Director Alice Greenwald said. Click on link to learn more.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/ny_metro/ny_city/040810_911_museum_to_re-create_the_post-attack_landscape_.html

April 3, 2010
New Security Measures To Be Instituted For People Flying Into US
The new security system will take into account travellers' nationality, age, recently visited countries and additional information. The system is intended to screen for possible terror threats beyond those on the no fly list.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204131.html?hpid=topnews

April 2, 2010
Global Survivors of Terrorism Co-sponsors Event in Lahore, Pakistan to Commemorate Terror Attack
To remember those killed in the 7 Decemeber 2009 twin suicide bombings in the Moon Market in Lahore, Global Survivors Network and Pakistan Terrorism Survivors Network, in collaboration with the Qaumi Tajar Ittehad, Moon Market, unveiled a memorial plaque in the Moon Market across from the site of one of the blasts on Tuesday, 30 March 2010.
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/world/6608872.Survivors_remember_Lahore_bombing_victims/

April 1, 2010
National September 11 Museum and Memorial Expects 9/11 Memorial to Open For Tenth Commemoration
The head of the New York/New Jersey Port Authority stated that he expects the 9/11 Memorial being built as part of the National September 11 Museum and Memorial will be open by September 11, 2011. "Opening the 9/11 Memorial on the 10th anniversary of the attacks is our highest priority, and the framing of the signature pools is a tangible sign that we are continuing to make significant progress to meet our commitment," Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward said. He cautioned that the museum itself would not be open to the public until 2012.
http://gothamist.com/2010/03/31/911_memorial_will_be_ready_by_next.php

March 30, 2010
PA and Silverstein Properties Reach Tentative Agreement on WTC Construction
The Port Authority, the City and Silverstein Properties have reached an accord to end that will allow the developer to build two towers at Ground Zero, the parties announced Thursday, ending a dispute that has been dragging on for over a year.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20100325/REAL_ESTATE/100329894

March 29, 2010
Oral Histories of 9/11 Will Be Made Available at WTC Preview Center
Recordings of people's experiences and memories of the 9/11 attacks which were recorded and compiled by Story Corps over the past several years will be available to the public at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site in lower Manhattan. Many of the audio recordings and items will become part of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, which is under construction. Click on link to read press release.
http://www.national911memorial.org/site/DocServer/OralHistoryNewsReleasefinal.pdf?docID=8041

March 26, 2010
Negotiations Continue on 9/11 Health Suits Settlements
Attorneys for both the plaintiffs and the Captive Insurance Company have reentered discussions, trying to reach a settlement that will be acceptible to the court in the law suit filed by those who claim they became ill due to exposure to toxic 9/11 materials. Judge Alvin Hellerstein has demanded that any new settlement offer more compensation to the plaintiffs and that attorneys' fees not diminish the funds available to those who filed the suit. Click on link to learn more.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202446762518&_Lawyers_Return_to_Bargaining_Table_to_Refine_Settlement

March 23, 2010
Lynch Memorial Foundation Has Awarded 63 Scholarships Since 9/11
The Lynch Memorial Foundation was created to honor the memory of Firefighter Michael Francis Lynch who died while responding to the World Trade Center attacks. The scholarships are available to children of firefighters and victims of disasters that have occurred in the United States. To learn more click on link or go to: http://www.mlynch.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/nyregion/22lynch.html

March 21, 2010
Lawyer's in 9/11 Health Care Suits Issue Statement
Attorneys from the law firm of Worby, Groner, Edelman & Napoli, which represented thousands of workers who claim they became ill as a result of exposure to toxic materials during the WTC rescue and clean up, have issued a statement denying they pressured the plintiffs to accept the agreement reached with the Captive Insurance Company. The settlement developed by and the City of New York was rejected by the court. Click on link to read article.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/22/2010-03-22_911_lawyers_deny_pushing_to_take_deal.html

March 20, 2010
Federal Judge Rejects Settlement Reached in 9/11 Health Law Suits
Judge Alvin Hellerstein cited concerns over the fairness of claim amounts and the process to determine compensation as over-complicated. In addition, the judge said that lawyer fees should be limited and paid by the WTC Captive Insurance Company rather than by the claimants. The settlement, announced last week, would have addressed more than 10,000 claims and would have awarded up to $657 million if all claimants accepted the settlement.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/worldnation/679982-227/575m-settlement-rejected-for-911-heroes.html

March 17, 2010
James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act Advances in Congress
The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health subcommittee approved by an overwhelming and bipartisan 25-8 vote the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (H.R. 847). The bill would establish a medical monitoring and treatment program for the Sept. 11 first responders and the community members at the site of the attacks. Click on link to read article.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/03/17/2010-03-17_zadroga_bill_passes_committee.html

March 16, 2010
Possible Settlement Reached in 9/11 Health Suit
The City of New York and lawyers representing thousands of workers who claim to be ill after participating in the rescue, recovery and clean-up at the World Trade Center after 9/11, have reached a potential agreement. The settlement, in the amount of $657.5 million dollars would be divided between the plaintiffs based on numerous factors such as proximity to the site, severity of illnesses diagnosed, time of diagnoses, pre-existing conditions, age of victim, and smoking history. Each individual, based on the merit and conditions of their health will receive anywhere from thousands of dollars to more than a million dollars. the proposed agreement would require 95% of the plaintiffs to agree to the settlement. Click on link to learn more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/science/earth/13zero.html

March 11, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg Critical of PA in WTC Delays
In January, an arbitration panel gave Silverstein Properties and the Port Authority until March 12 to develop a new construction schedule and financing plan for the World Trade Centers site where Silverstein had originally intended to build three massive office towers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has recently expressed frustration over the failure of the parties to work out their differences. Click on link to read op-ed by Mayor Bloomberg.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/opinion/11bloomberg.html

November 17, 2009
9/11 Workers' Compensation Deadline
WTC rescue, recovery and clean-up workers and volunteers must register with the New York State Workers' Compensation Board no later than September 11, 2010 to preserve their right to file for September 11-related compensation in the future.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/employees/workcomp.shtml#1

September 10, 2009
Curriculum on 9/11 and Global Terrorism to be Tested in NJ Schools
The idea for the curriculum began with the Families of September 11 and the effort includes the Liberty Science Center, the state Commission on Holocaust Education and about 20 New Jersey teachers. With guidance from the Commission on Holocaust Education -- which has written not just the state's Holocaust curriculum but also lessons on other acts of genocide -- teachers from around the state gathered several times over the last year to write dozens of lessons about terrorism for all grades. The curriculum cuts across many subjects, including social studies, history, language arts, art and music. Click on link to learn more.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/new_jersey_is_part_of_plan_to.html

June 18, 2009
Lower Manhattan Businesses Affected by 9/11 May Receive Additional Aid
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has indicated that it will attempt to make it easier for businesses impacted by the WTC attacks to qualify for reconstruction funds set aside after 9/11.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/nyregion/13lmdc.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

April 30, 2009
A Reminder About Provocative Images and Events
On Monday April 27th the 747 back up plane to Air Force One, followed by an F-16 fighter, circled around lower Manhattan at low altitude, prompting evacuations in several buildings along the river in New Jersey and New York, including the New York Mercantile Exchange and Goldman Sachs in Jersey City. To view the Families of September 11 statement about this incident click on the link.
http://www.familiesofseptember11.org/actionalert.aspx?item_id=560&tid=1

April 2, 2009
Both Houses of CongressPass Bills to Create a National Day of Service on September 11th
With the passage of the Serve America Act the Senate followed suit with the House of Representatives' approval of the GIVE Act to designate 9/11 as a day of voluntary service. Efforts to promote this legislation were spearheaded by MyGoodDeed and a coalition of 9/11 and other organizations. To learn more, click on the link.
Read press release.

March 26, 2009
President Signs Spending Bill Containing $70 Million for 9/11 Health Care
President Obama signed into law an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2009. The bill includes $70 million in new funding for the current medical monitoring and treatment programs administered by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at FDNY and the Mount Sinai Consortium. The funds will also cover treatment for residents, area workers and others affected by 9/11. Click on the link below to read the bill.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1105pcs.txt.pdf

March 6, 2009
Most 9/11 Lawsuits Settled Through Mediation
A mediator appointed to oversee the 95 personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has announced this week that all but three have been settled.
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090306/UPDATES01/903060363

February 17, 2009
9/11 Commission Members Mourn Loss of Activist Beverly Eckert
Members of the Commission which investigated the 2001 terror attacks expressed their grief over the death of Beverly Eckert.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/02/13/2009-02-13_911_commission_members_mourn_loss_of_act.html

February 17, 2009
Leading Jurists Call for Urgent Steps to Restore Human Rights in Efforts to Counter Terrorism
The International Commission of Jurists is dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights. The commission has just issued a report on the conduct of the war on terrorism and its effect on international law and human rights.
http://www.icj.org/
Read the Report.

January 8, 2009
Representatives of 9/11 Families Meet With President Obama to Express Concerns Over Guantanamo Closing
Families who lost loved ones on 9/11 were invited to the White House to discuss their feelings about the president's decision to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2009/02/obama_provides_comfort_but_no.html

January 2, 2009
"Managing the Psychology of Fear and Terror", a Blueprint of Strategies for Governments, Service Providers and Individuals
Psychology Beyond Borders, a group of leading mental health practitioners committed to informed policy, research, education, and psychosocial service delivery in the prevention, preparedness and response to terror attacks, armed conflict or natural disaster, has released a white paper titled, "Managing the Psychology of Fear and Terror."
http://psychologybeyondborders.com/userfiles/file/PBB%20White%20Paper%20Revision.pdf

December 14, 2008
The Project on National Security Reform Releases Recommendations Urging Sweeping Changes to Improve U.S. National Security System
The national security system must be massively reorganized if federal agencies are to cooperate and collaborate more effectively to combat the multitude of threats facing the U.S. in the 21st century, according to recommendations released by the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR). Click on link to read the report.
http://pnsr.org/data/files/pnsr%20forging%20a%20new%20shield.pdf

December 12, 2008
Several 9/11 Families Criticize Military Tribunals at Guantanamo
Thirty-three relatives of people killed in the 9/11 attacks on the US have denounced the Guantanamo war crimes trials as illegitimate and unfair.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7776666.stm

December 12, 2008
Recession Will Slow Completion of WTC Reconstruction
The sluggish economy is slowing construction at the WTC site and could delay completion until 2013.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929666634205133.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

December 11, 2008
WTC "Survivors' Stairs" Moved to Permanent Location at the World Trade Center Site
The stairs that led many World Trade Center workers to safety during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 moved to a new home on Thursday in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum that is now under construction.
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/survivor-stairs-wtc-8453.html

December 10, 2008
Five Detainees in Guantanamo Tribunal Offer to Plead Guilty
Five of the men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks said Monday that they wanted to plead guilty to murder and war crimes but withdrew the offer when a military judge raised questions about whether it would prevent them from fulfilling their desire to receive the death penalty.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/08/AR2008120801087.html

December 9, 2008
Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Holds Sevices at the Site of Its Destruction
In a tent that resembled the outline of a building, a memorial was also held to honor all of the victims of the September 11th attacks.
http://www.ny1.com/content/special_reports/wtc_coverage/90163/church-destroyed-on-9-11-holds-services-on-former-site/Default.aspx

December 4, 2008
Governor of Arizona Chosen as Candidate For Homeland Security
President elect Obama has nominated Governor Janet Napolitano to be his Secretary of Homeland Seurity. The Governor of Arizona was vice-chairwoman of the National Governors' Association (NGA) in 2006 when it instituted the Governors' Homeland Security Advisors Council as a forum to bring together the 55 advisors appointed by the governors of each state and territory to share common concerns and develop strategies for managing homeland security threats.
http://www.govtech.com/gt/567380?topic=117680

November 21, 2008
WTC Tribute Center Continues to Draw Visitors
Tribute WTC Visitor Center offers visitors to the World Trade Center site a place where they can connect with people from the September 11th community. Through walking tours, exhibits and programs, the Tribute WTC Visitor Center offers "Person to Person History," linking visitors who want to understand and appreciate these historic events with those who experienced them. To visit the website, clink on the link below.
http://www.tributewtc.org/aboutus/index.php

November 20, 2008
National Institute of Standards and Technology Releases Final Report on Collapse of 7 WTC
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued its final reort on the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7. The paper offers stronger evidence that the collapse was caused by fires which caused steel columns to fail.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081120144246.htm

November 3, 2008
Libya Makes Final Compensation Payments to U.S. Victims of Terror
Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, clearing the last hurdle in full normalization of ties between Washington and Tripoli.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-11-01-libya-payments_N.htm?csp=34

October 27, 2008
Flight Attendant Discusses Job Changes Since 9/11
The responsibilities of a flight attendants are drastically different today, especially when it comes to homeland security. At one time, flight attendants were required to wear nail polish. Now they recieve self defense training and carry restraint tape.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-livoicc5899723oct27,0,7334544.story

October 27, 2008
9/11 Family Members to be Offered Opportunity to Attend Guantanamo Trials
With the war court's future uncertain, the Pentagon has made plans to bring victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- chosen by lottery -- to watch a hearing of reputed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed's death penalty trial.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/742841.html

October 27, 2008
Many New York 9/11 Workers, Residents Still Sick
Nearly seven years after the terrorist attacks that demolished the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, many people exposed to the dust, smoke and chemical fumes released into the environment by the airplane strikes on the twin towers continue to experience illnesses.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/green/Many_New_York_9_11_Workers__Residents_Still_Sick.html

October 9, 2008
Ground Zero Visitors Will Have Clear Look
The new World Trade Center may be at least five years from completion, but the thousands of daily visitors to the site will get to see what the finished product will look like, thanks to a new fence around Ground Zero that will be covered with images of the buildings.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092008/news/regionalnews/ground_zero_visitors_will_have_clear_loo_132799.htm

September 3, 2008
Objects and Memory Documentary to Air on PBS
The documentary Objects and Memory will be shown on PBS stations on Monday September 8, 2008. Objects and Memory, examines meaningful objects and the stories they convey. Beginning soon after September 11, 2001, the film follows, verité style, the efforts of museum curators and everyday folk who were driven to collect and preserve meaningful artifacts.
http://objectsandmemory.org/

August 18, 2008
9/11 Assistance Programs Close or Shrink Services as Funding Dries Up
Programs offering assistance to victims of 9/11 have long relied on funding from an American Red Cross long-term relief fund that distributed more than $1 billion in direct aid and recovery grants to over 100 organizations. On June 30, the Red Cross distributed its last $40 million to 26 groups it still funded. Most private foundations are no longer funding Sept. 11 programs.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFU6k8ttfKFSoz4vS-DRaxfy_zfQD92JH4RG0

July 21, 2008
Governor Patterson and Mayor Bloomberg Announce That WTC Memorial Will be a Priority
Governor David Paterson sided recently with Mayor Michael Bloomberg that the September 11th Memorial should be the top priority at the World Trade Center site.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=83952

July 21, 2008
WTC Site Will be Open Again to Families This 9/11
Sept. 11 victims' families will be allowed to return to ground zero to mourn their loved ones on the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks, officials said Friday.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWUyIyWxUm8jIt3Ipxl97DbRImuwD920J6R00

July 15, 2008
August Deadline Nears for 9/11 Workers
If you aided in the rescue, recovery or cleanup efforts of the World Trade Center ruins, it is important that you register no later than Aug. 13 with the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board. By registering, you will preserve your right to file a Workers’ Compensation claim, in case you get sick in the future. Click on the link for more information.
http://www.dc37.net/news/pep/7_2008/9_11workerscomp.html

July 8, 2008
Florida is the Destination of Choice for New York-Area Families of Victims Killed in the Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks
About 120 Sept. 11 families from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and the Boston area moved to the Sunshine State between early 2002 and late 2005.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594405.html

July 8, 2008
Administration Lets WTC Health Czar Go
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director, Julie Gerberding, met Thursday with Dr. John Howard and told him the administration would look for a new director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The CDC said Howard's six-year term will expire July 14.
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-35/121511938747160.xml&storylist=simetro

July 3, 2008
Former Gov. Kean talks with educators about teaching 9/11
Former Gov. Thomas Kean met today with New Jersey educators crafting a curriculum for teaching New Jersey's children about the attacks, sharing lessons learned from his experience as chairman of the national 9/11 commission. The setting was a conference kicking off a yearlong effort to develop curriculum and resources for teachers faced with a dual challenge of teaching the history and context of the terrorist attacks in communities that witnessed them.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/former_gov_kean_talks_with_edu.html

June 30, 2008
Audit of WTC Redevelopment Reveals Long Delays and Cost Overruns
Government-funded site studies have estimated that the deadlines are likely to be missed by 18 to 36 months and that the $8.4 billion earmarked for the Port Authority isn't enough.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080627/FREE/807138954/1097/rss17&rssfeed=rss17

June 30, 2008
Families of September 11 Co-Sponsors Conference on Developing Curricula For Teaching 9/11 in Schools
On Tuesday July 1, 2008 more than 100 educators and leaders in fields such as trauma, Holocaust studies and childhood learning are set to gather at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City for a daylong symposium on how best to teach the lessons of 9/11 and terrorism. The symposium, which is by invitation and not open to the public is a collaborative effort of the science center, Families of September 11 and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education of the New Jersey State Department of Education.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-10/121471548749320.xml&coll=1&thispage=2

June 26, 2008
Funds Sought For New Project At 9/11 Park
New plans are in the works for the 9/11 Memorial Park, located on the grounds of the Setauket Fire Department's Nicolls Road station. The fire department, which has been maintaining the site, is looking to raise funds in order to put lighting around the monument and the walkways.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19802486&BRD=1776&PAG=461&dept_id=6363&rfi=6

June 23, 2008
9/11 Families Donate Mementos to September 11th Museum
The National September 11th Museum and Memorial has been receiving a steady stream of gifts and artifacts related to 9/11 which will be on display when the museum opens in 2011.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/06/21/2008-06-21_911_families_donate_mementos_to_septembe.html

June 16, 2008
Inaugural WTC Responders Day held at Ground Zero
Emergency responders and volunteers who are enduring lasting health effects from their work at Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center gathered there Saturday for an event billed as the "First Annual WTC Responder Day."
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nywtc0615,0,3814961.story

June 13, 2008
Long-term 9/11 stress in lower Manhattan
More than 12 percent of lower Manhattan residents exhibited signs of post-traumatic stress disorder as many as three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror strikes on the World Trade Center, according to a study released Friday by the city Health Department.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=579462

June 13, 2008
NY Governor Asks for Update on WTC Construction
Governor David Paterson yesterday called on the Port Authority to provide updated timetables and price estimates for finishing the mammoth rebuilding of the former World Trade Center site.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1213245361321760.xml&coll=1

June 13, 2008
NY Gov. Wants to Expand Benefits for More 9/11 Workers
Gov. David Paterson on Thursday announced new legislation that would expand disability benefits to more than 1,000 workers who toiled at the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-zero0613,0,5412139,print.story

June 12, 2008
Excavation Work at Ground Zero Site Behind Schedule
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said on Wednesday that it was running more than a month behind schedule in delivering the site of Tower 2 at the new World Trade Center to the developer, Silverstein Properties.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/nyregion/12wtc.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

June 5, 2008
Landmark Sept. 11 Trials Open at Guantanamo
MSNBC -- The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and four alleged co-conspirators faced a military judge Thursday in their long-awaited first appearance before a war-crimes tribunal.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24980555

June 5, 2008
9/11 Takes its Place Alongside D-Day in French Museum
AFP -- A French history museum dedicated to the World War II D-Day landings is set to unveil the largest exhibit to date on another event that changed the world: the September 11, 2001 attacks.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hgtyFjXQJPIjHS92Nhm5GQk-qDuw

May 28, 2008
Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Expected to be Dedicated on Seventh Anniversary of Attacks
The memorial being built to remember and honor those who died in the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon will be dedicated on September 11, 2008. The focus of the memorial is 184 cantilevered benches built over a pool of lighted water. Each bench is engraved on the end with the name of one of the 184 people who died on board Flight 77 or in the Pentagon that day.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/23/pentagon.memorial/

May 24, 2008
Sally Goodrich Gives Address To University of Maine - Farmington Graduates
Founder of the Peter M. Goodrich Foundation and Our Voices Together Advisory Board member urges grads to direct their lives "in ways that are good for you and the overlapping communities of this small world."
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/5071015.html
U Maine Commencement Address - Sally Goodrich

May 22, 2008
New Study Finds High Percentage of PTSD in Ground Zero Workers
A new study by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine suggests that the percentage of ground zero workers who suffered post-traumatic stress is roughly the same as for airline crash recovery workers and returning Afghanistan war veterans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/nyregion/21mental.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

May 6, 2008
9/11 Survivors' Fund Closes in D.C.
The largest charity established to help Washington-area victims and their families is closing, becoming the last major 9/11-related charity to shut down. The Survivor's fund has been cited as a model of victim assistance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050301105.html

May 6, 2008
Stanford Psychiatrist Shares Thoughts on Emotional Impact of 9/11
David Spiegel, MD a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine discusses the impacts the 9/11 attacks had and continue to have on people's mental health.
http://www.dentalplans.com/articles/Stanford%20Psychiatrist%20on/

April 25, 2008
Homeland Security To Assist Undocumented Relatives of 9/11 Victims
Federal officials on Thursday opened a path to temporary legal status for illegal immigrants whose spouses or parents died on 9/11, a step the families’ supporters called a breakthrough in the effort to allow them to remain permanently in the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/nyregion/25legal.html

April 23, 2008
Judge Dismisses 9/11 Suit Against Former Head of E.P.A.
A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against Christie Whitman on Tuesday, ruling that Mrs. Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, could not be held liable for telling residents, students and office workers that the air was safe to breathe after the terrorist attack in 2001.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/nyregion/23whitman.html?ref=nyregion

April 21, 2008
Congressional Panel Finds Risk of Nuclear Attack on Rise
Concerned that not enough attention is being paid to the risk of a nuclear attack, a Senate committee yesterday looked at the consequences of such a terrorist strike in Washington -- and said that more could be done to save lives. The committee summoned witnesses who said the risk of such an attack on U.S. cities has grown in the past five years because of the spread of nuclear technology and the growth of a global terrorist movement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041502969.html

April 21, 2008
Port Authority Head Submits Resignation
Port Authority Executive Director Anthony Shorris announced his resignation Thursday morning, a day after news broke that he was to be ousted from his job.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=80616

April 21, 2008
Pope Blesses Ground Zero in NYC, Prays For Peace
Pope Benedict XVI began the final day of his American journey by blessing the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and pleading with God to bring "peace to our violent world."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7CMHl_nRqEaAwSLE_odoujTS4FgD905KT480

April 18, 2008
U.S. To Televise Guantanamo Trials To 9-11 Families
The U.S. military will televise the Guantanamo trial of accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other suspects so relatives of those killed in the attacks can watch on the U.S. mainland. The trials will be beamed to closed-circuit television viewing sites on military bases at Fort Hamilton in New York, Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, Fort Meade in Maryland and Fort Devens in Massachusetts.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/ts_nm/guantanamo_television_dc

April 18, 2008
Mayor Bloomberg Cites Need For Federal Aid For 9/11 Health Care Among NYC Top Priorities Over Next Two Years
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday called on the U.S. government to pay $150 million a year to cover medical bills for workers and residents whose health suffered due to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1732834620080417?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

April 18, 2008
Attempts To Change Arizona's 9/11 Memorial Fall Short
An effort to substantially alter Arizona’s official Sept. 11 memorial has failed, ending months of rancorous debate over statements on it that some deemed unpatriotic or irrelevant to the attacks seven years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/us/17memorial.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

April 18, 2008
House panel makes May 'Resilience Month'
Resilience -- the ability to pick up and resume activities after an attack or disaster -- is a concept that many experts believe should be at the center of U.S. homeland security planning.
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2008/04/16/house_panel_makes_may_resilience_month/6359/

April 16, 2008
Port Authority States WTC Construction Will Not Be Affected by Slow Economy
The Port Authority chairman said Tuesday that construction at the World Trade Center site is progressing, and should not be slowed by current economic troubles.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=80549

April 15, 2008
The New York State Museum to Open 9/11 Exhibit in Caen, France
Artifacts, films, and stories from The New York State Museum's permanent September 11th Exhibit will be on display at Le Caen Memorial, a museum of conflict and peace in France. The exhibit, titled "A Global Moment", is due to open on June 6, at the museum which was built to honor those who died on D-Day in 1944 and in the battle of Normandy which followed.
http://www.buffalonews.com/180/story/322793.html

April 2, 2008
Former Chief Administrator of Victim's Fund Recommends Reopening Fund to Ill 9/11 Responders
Kenneth Feinberg the former Grand Master of the September 11 Victim's Compensation Fund, recommended to a congressional committee that the fund be reopened to assist rescue and recovery personnell who responded on 9/11 and are now ill as a result of their efforts.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=80041

April 2, 2008
CDC Announces it Will Create National Program to Treat Ill 9/11 Resonders Throughout the Country
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will issue a solicitation for sources to provide federally-funded medical monitoring and treatment to thousands of 9/11 responders who live outside metropolitan New York City. According to the federally-funded World Trade Center Health Registry, people from all 50 states and 431 of 435 Congressional districts nationwide were in lower Manhattan on or after 9/11 and now have serious concerns about their health. In all, more than 10,000 of the 71,000 people enrolled in the Registry live outside the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. In its announcement, the CDC noted that its request “represents an unusual and compelling urgency from the Government.” Indeed, existing funding for treatment programs outside metro New York, primarily provide by charitable donations from the American Red Cross, are expected to end in the next few months. The CDC is encouraging interested firms to respond to its announcement by April 2nd.

March 27, 2008
Federal Appeals Court Allows 9/11 Workers' Lawsuits to Proceed
Ruling allows thousands of WTC rescue, recovery, and clean-up personell to move forward with liability cases against New York City and the Port Authority.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/nyregion/27ground.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

March 27, 2008
City Proposes That NYPD Assume Responsibility For New WTC Site Security
Mayor Bloomberg is recommending that the New York Police Department take over managing security for and access to the new World Trade Center site. The proposal would releive the Port Authority of NY/NJ of its present responsibility for site security.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/nyregion/27wtc.html?ref=nyregion

March 19, 2008
Flight 93 Families Reach Agreement on Memorial Site in Pennsylvania
The Families of Flight 93 have reached an agreement with a coal mining company to buy 1.5 square miles of land for a national memorial to the people killed on one of the airliners hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, the organization said Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_re_us/flight93_memorial

March 18, 2008
US Attorney General Speaks Against the Death Penalty For Guantanamo Detainees
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he hopes the men charged with participating in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are not executed if found guilty to avoid making martyrs of them.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ipy8IvxAeMp6MpJsHBlJgaq5sqLgD8VDG98G2

March 5, 2008
Concerns Regarding Dust at WTC Construction Site
Local downtown residents are worried about substances that may be emanating from the World Trade Center construction site, particularly along Church Street, where trucks leave at the intersection with Vesey Street, near St. Paul’s Chapel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/nyregion/thecity/02dust.html?_r=1&ref=thecity&oref=slogin

March 5, 2008
WTC Memorial Beams Signed and Stored in Chatham County Georgia
The steel that will be used to build the World Trade Center memorial in New York City is being kept in a warehouse in Chatham County. Four pieces of that steel have some real sentimental value. They are now part of a living memorial, touched by so many people who were touched by the tragedy of 9-11.
http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7958517&nav=menu89_2

February 26, 2008
NYC Dept. of Health Conducting New Respiratory Study of Lower Manhattan Residents and Workers
Individuals who are chosen to take part in the study will be asked about their personal experiences during and after the WTC collapse. This will be followed by some basic medical tests and a more thorough examination of their lung function. Findings from this study may better inform efforts to prevent similar types of health problems following building demolitions or other large-scale environmental disasters in urban areas.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/02202008.shtml

February 26, 2008
First Responders Suffering From WTC Related Illness Rally in DC
Dozens of rescue and recovery workers who reponded to the attacks on the WTC on September 11, 2001 and are now suffering fron cancer, repiratory illnesses, and other diseases left today for Washington, DC to bring attention to the need for addition federal funding to address the growing medical crisis resulting from exposure to toxic materials released on 9/11.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/02/26/2008-02-26_sick_911_first_responders_on_trip_to_was.html

February 21, 2008
Research on Dreams Indicates the Deep Impact of 9/11 Trauma on the General Population
A recent study of dreams shows that most people "experienced some sort of trauma, or at least emotional arousal by these events [9/11]."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080219/hl_nm/terror_attacks_dreams_dc

February 21, 2008
9/11 Victims' Children Volunteer in New Orleans
More than a dozen young people who lost parents in the terrorist attacks are volunteering with a Habitat for Humanity project which is building homes in the Musicians' Village, a housing initiative launched by New Orleans natives Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis in the Upper 9th Ward to help displaced musicians.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLqgrC8O_S8b0Sa6uTzHh7WNUu3AD8UULSR82

February 20, 2008
Illness-stricken 9/11 Workers, Families Planning Protest in Washington
Ground Zero first-responders and their families - will travel to Capitol Hill on February 26th to demand government not turn its back on them. Busloads of cancer victims and people crippled by breathing problems and horrific injuries will make the 250-mile trek to Washington to protest a planned slash in health care funding and to demand support from the next President.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/02/15/2008-02-15_illnessstricken_911_workers_families_pla.html

February 14, 2008
NYC Opposes Civil Service Exam Bonus for 9/11 Siblings
New York City is not supporting a bill passed by the state assembly which would grant a ten point bonus to fire and police academy applicants who lost siblings on 9/11.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E5D8113EF932A15756C0A9659C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

February 5, 2008
Study Finds Prior Trauma Raised Children’s 9/11 Risk
NY Times -- Preschoolers who witnessed the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center or saw its victims were at high risk of developing lingering emotional and behavior problems if — but only if — they had had a previous frightening experience, like seeing a parent fall ill, researchers are reporting Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/research/05trau.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

January 28, 2008
Extremists Plotted Attacks Across Europe, Spanish Paper Says
CNN -- Suspected Islamic extremists arrested last week in Barcelona were planning al Qaeda-style attacks in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal, according to an informant who "infiltrated" the group, Spain's El Pais newspaper reports.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/27/spain.europe.terror.plot/

January 28, 2008
TSA Tester Slips Mock Bomb Past Airport Security
CNN -- Jason -- that's the name CNN was asked to call him -- slides a simulated explosive into an elastic back support. The mock bomb is as slim as a wallet; its fuse, the size of a cigarette. He wraps the support around his torso, and the bomb fits comfortably into the small of his back.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/28/tsa.bombtest/index.html

January 28, 2008
Don’t Dust Off 9/11 Artifacts, Museum Asks Residents
Downtownexpress.com -- The antique chair stood in Kathleen Gupta’s Gateway Plaza apartment for 19 years. It was a wedding present from her mother, made of cherry wood and inlaid with mother of pearl, a reminder of family and celebration.
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_246/dontdustoff.html

January 28, 2008
Care for 9/11 Responders Is Piecemeal
Washington Post -- As President Bush gives his State of the Union speech Monday, there will be one man in the audience who plans to sit quietly and watch, his very presence a form of protest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012701629.html?hpid=moreheadlines

January 25, 2008
Flight Instructor Gets $5 Million for Catching '20th' Hijacker
CNN -- A Minnesota flight instructor who notified his bosses of student Zacarias Moussaoui's suspicious behavior received a $5 million reward Thursday from the State Department, two government officials told CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/24/moussaoui.reward/?iref=mpstoryview

January 17, 2008
Extracting Survivors’ Stairway for a Home at the 9/11 Museum
NY Times -- With the new World Trade Center rising clamorously around it, the last standing vestige of the old World Trade Center is about to be uprooted. In the last week, workers have cut openings into a concrete superstructure supporting 38 steps that once led from Vesey Street up to the north end of the sprawling Austin J. Tobin Plaza. Because hundreds of evacuees made their way down this route on Sept. 11, 2001, it is called the “survivors’ stairway.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/nyregion/17stairway.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

January 9, 2008
Toxic Air of 9/11 Takes Another Hero
EMS Lt. Brian Ellicott has become the first member of Uniformed Emergency Medical Service Officers Local 3621 to die due to an illness contracted by breathing toxic, asbestos-laden air as he risked his life to save fellow New Yorkers at Ground Zero at the World Trade Center.
http://www.dc37.net/news/pep/1_2008/9_11Ellicott.html

January 9, 2008
Head of WTC Captive Insurance Fund Resigns
Christine LaSala, president and CEO of the $1 billion World Trade Center Captive Insurance Co., submitted her resignation effective July 1 - or as soon as a replacement is found.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01092008/news/regionalnews/9_11_injury_fund_overseer_quits_922138.htm

January 9, 2008
Demolition to Resume at Deutsche Bank Site
New York Times -- After nearly five months of inactivity, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is close to restarting the demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building, where work halted in August after two firefighters died fighting a blaze in the contaminated tower.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/nyregion/09deutsch.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

January 9, 2008
“The Forgotten Ones”: Adult Brothers and Sisters of 9-11 Victims
In the days and weeks following 9/11, many mental health professionals in the New York City area staffed crisis centers that provided counseling for first responders, as well as for spouses, children, or parents of those who had fallen. As the enormity of the tragedy became apparent, David Flomenhaft, LCSW, PhD, part of a Nassau County mental health team, saw that although resources were available to support surviving children and spouses, “I realized there was another group that hadn’t been served – sibling survivors.” Over time, the sibling counseling group his team established grew from five people to eighty. “They named themselves ‘the forgotten ones,’” said Flomenhaft, because in the months after 9/11 the public (and media) tended to rally around children and wives of the lost, while siblings’ grief seemed overlooked. Click here to read the abstract.
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/alumni/alumni.news.flomenhaft.html

January 8, 2008
9/11 Stress Linked to Heart Trouble
University of California at Irvine researchers linked psychological stress responses to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a 53% increase in heart problems -- including high blood pressure and stroke -- in the three years after Sept. 11, 2001. The study by Silver and E. Alison Holman followed about 1,800 adults who had filled out health surveys that were part of an ongoing database up to 15 months before Sept. 11. They were contacted again nine to 14 days after the attacks and asked if they had stress symptoms, such as flashbacks, constantly thinking about the terrorism or startling easily
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-me-911stress8jan08,1,2203128.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-health&ctrack=2&cset=true

January 8, 2008
Mentors needed for children who lost parents on 9/11
A national nonprofit that offers services to 9/11 families is looking to recruit young and active men and women in Rockland County to serve as role models for children who lost a parent in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The Tuesday's Children Mentoring Program pairs these children with trained, adult mentors who offer opportunities, provide guidance, help with coping skills and, most of all, have fun together. Mentoring candidates are screened and trained by mentoring experts and matched with a child in their area. Contact Tuesday's Children at (516) 562-9000 or http://www.tuesdayschildren.org/
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/NEWS03/801060358/1019/NEWS03

January 8, 2008
Severe Stress Post-9/11 Raises Heart Disease Risk
Reuters Health -- People who felt extremely stressed directly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were at increased risk of being diagnosed with cardiovascular problems in the following 3 years-even if they only saw the attacks on TV, a new study shows.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSLAU87839920080108?sp=true

December 28, 2007
NYC Health Dept. Urges WTC Health Registry Enrollees to Complete Follow Up Survey by 12/31.
The Health Department encouraged adult enrollees in the World Trade Center Health Registry who have not yet completed their follow-up surveys to do so by the December 31 deadline. The Health Department's follow-up survey is the best way to learn more about people's status six years after they were exposed to the World Trade Center disaster. By comparing the second survey to the first one, which ended in 2004, researchers will answer important questions about the persistence of physical and mental health symptoms and determine whether any new health problems have emerged among the registrants. The follow-up survey takes about 30 minutes to complete and is available in English, Spanish and Chinese. Other languages are available through an interpretation hotline
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/92451.php

December 28, 2007
New Report on Public Health in New York City
The Health Department’s new report - Public Health in New York City, 2004-2006 - is off the press and available now for free download. The booklet recounts some of the agency’s major initiatives since 2004, and it provides up-to-date facts and figures on a range of important health issues - from flu vaccination to smoking rates and HIV-related deaths.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/public/triennial_report.pdf

December 27, 2007
Benazir Bhutto Assassinated
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday after addressing a large gathering of her supporters
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/pakistan.bhutto/index.html

December 19, 2007
Opening of Memorial for Sept. 11 Is Postponed
New York Times -- For years, under Gov. George E. Pataki, state officials told the public that the World Trade Center memorial would open Sept. 11, 2009, the eighth anniversary of the attack. On Tuesday, however, bowing to the realities of an ever-more-complex project, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said construction of the memorial plaza would not be finished until 2010. This is the street-level expanse where groves of white oaks and sweet gum trees will rise around two square voids — marking where the twin towers stood — bordered by the names of the dead and filled with waterfalls and pools.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/nyregion/19rebuild.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

December 18, 2007
Aid to World Trade Center Rescue Workers Put on Hold by CDC
World Trade Center rescue workers living outside New York state might not be able to get the healthcare they need, due to a decision by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to halt plans for a national 9/11 health program. The results of the CDC decision could be devastating to the thousands of World Trade Center first responders who left New York state for warmer regions of the country because of health concerns.
http://www.amny.com/news/local/ny-bc-ny--attacks-health1214dec14,0,7166570.story

December 12, 2007
Ground Zero Hunt for Remains Is Mostly Done
New York Times -- An expanded search for human remains begun last year at ground zero is largely completed, according to a memorandum sent to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday and ushering in a new phase of operations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/nyregion/12remains.html?_r=2&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

December 12, 2007
Chertoff Seeks Unified DHS, Sets 2008 Priorities
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff highlighted the department's 2007 achievements Wednesday, also naming four key areas that he plans to focus on in the coming year: border security and immigration, secure identity, cybersecurity, and operations.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1207/121207e1.htm

December 12, 2007
Mass on Christmas Eve May Be Ground Zero's Last
Outdoor midnight Mass on Christmas Eve has become a fixture at Ground Zero since the Sept. 11 attacks. But this year marks the end of a tradition born from one of the nation's most horrific tragedies: Construction plans will prevent future celebrations on what the architect of the event calls "sacred ground." The Rev. Brian J. Jordan, a priest at St. Francis of Assisi Church, said he learned in October from Port Authority officials that he could no longer hold the Mass on the site.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/transportation/ny-nymass125496962dec12,0,2138704.story

December 11, 2007
House Passes Terror Insurance Bill
Associated Press - The House passed a second bill to aid the insurance industry in the event of a terrorist attack, hoping to prompt Senate action before the post-Sept. 11 program expires.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/ap_on_go_co/terrorism_insurance

December 6, 2007
Mayor Bloomberg Launches Notify NYC
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the launch of Notify NYC, a pilot program to deliver emergency public information by email, text messages and reverse-911 alerts in four City community districts.
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2007b%2Fpr441-07.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1

December 6, 2007
Homeland Security Inspector General to Launch Investigation of Captive Insurance Coompany
Probe to examine why 8,000 Claims are currently in litigation.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=76182

December 2, 2007
City Begins Major 9/11 Cancer Study
NY Post - The city Health Department has launched a sweeping study - the first of its kind - of cancers among 9/11 responders and thousands of others who lived or worked near the World Trade Center.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12022007/news/regionalnews/city_begins_major_9_11_cancer_study_193657.htm

December 2, 2007
September 11 Responders Rally
ABC News - Some ground zero recovery workers gathered outside the medical examiner's office today to protest his criteria for deciding who was killed by the September 11th attacks.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=5808683

November 28, 2007
Health Department Releases New Findings on Children Exposed to the WTC Disaster
Findings released by the Health Department today provide the first broad snapshot of physical and mental health effects among children exposed to the World Trade Center disaster. The survey found that children under five had an increased likelihood of being diagnosed with asthma in the two to three years following the event, though not as sharp an increase as rescue workers. The survey did not find evidence of elevated levels of post-traumatic stress in children.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2007/pr096-07.shtml

November 27, 2007
Death Ruled Not Homicide for Officer at Ground Zero
New York City’s chief medical examiner has decided not to reclassify the death of a police officer who worked at ground zero as a homicide linked to the attack on the twin towers because the officer did not arrive at the site until Sept. 13, 2001.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/nyregion/27dust.html?ref=nyregion

November 20, 2007
Mayor Bloomberg Signs Legislation That Could Expedite Processing of WTC-Related Disability Applications for FDNY Members
Mayor Bloomberg has signed New York City Council legislation that increases the number of FDNY Pension Fund Medical Boards that can be convened to review disability retirement applications filed by firefighters.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/11092007.shtml

November 20, 2007
Follow-up Surveys for WTC Health Registry Enrollees Due by the End of the Year
Beginning in November 2006 the Health Department sent follow-up surveys to all 71,000 individuals enrolled in the WTC Health Registry to learn more about their health status six years after the disaster.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/11162007-3.shtml

November 16, 2007
Congress Fails to Override Presidential Veto of Appropriations Bill That Would Provide Treatment for Residents
NYC.gov - The House of Representatives failed to override President Bush’s veto of a labor and health appropriations bill that included a provision of $52.5 million in federal funding for World Trade Center (WTC)-related health services. This money would, for the first time, have funded medical monitoring and treatment for residents, office workers, students and others who were exposed to the WTC disaster. Both houses of Congress must now rework the bill to reach a compromise with the White House.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/11162007-1.shtml

Nov 16, 2007
NYC Identifies 9/11 Victim From WTC Road
A second Sept. 11 victim was identified from human remains found underneath a service road at the World Trade Center site in the past year, officials said Friday.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilrvwWZJK5BHZzncU3lZInAdkHsQD8SV6IT00

November 15, 2007
Island to Get $468,000 for 9/11 Memorial
Staten Island Advance - New York Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer announced today that they have secured $468,000 in funding for a living memorial for 9/11 victims on the grounds of Sea View hospital.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2007/11/island_to_get_468000_for_911_m.html

November 15, 2007
LMDC Announces More Than $37 Million in Grants
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced today that it is awarding more than $37 million in Community Enhancement Fund grants to support a variety of community improvements. The grants will fund crucial programs, services and facilities in neighborhoods throughout Lower Manhattan.
http://www.renewnyc.com/displaynews.aspx?newsid=3a002039-985b-4b5c-bb57-3b275521615c

November 10, 2007
New Study Released On Respiratory Problems For 9/11 Workers
NY1.com - A new study released this month shows state employees who worked at the World Trade Center site after the toxic dust cloud cleared are suffering from the same respiratory problems as workers who were there during the actual September 11th terrorist attacks – just to a lower degree.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=75491

November 7, 2007
Reps. Maloney, Nadler and Fossella Urge Independent Standards for Adding Names to 9/11 Victims List
New York, NY – Following Mayor Bloomberg’s meeting Monday with the family of the late NYPD Detective James Zadroga, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Vito Fossella (R-NY) wrote to the Mayor and urged him to empower a panel of independent public health experts to help the city put in place clear standards and procedures to determine whether deaths should be linked to 9/11.
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny08_nadler/Independent_Standards_For_Adding_911_Victims_Names_110707.html

November 6, 2007
New Program at Gouverner Health Center Offers Treatment to Downtown Residents
With City funding, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation has expanded the Bellevue WTC Environmental Health Center to Gouverneur Healthcare Services downtown and to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. WTC-related treatment in the new program is provided for downtown residents at no cost, regardless of the patient’s ability to pay.
http://grandstreetnews.com/scripts/grand/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=647

October 31, 2007
Mixed Verdicts Issued in Madrid Terror Trial
MSNBC - An Egyptian who allegedly bragged that he masterminded the 2004 Madrid terror bombings that killed 191 people was acquitted of all charges along with six other lesser suspects Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250580/

October 30, 2007
Senate Approves Extention of 9/11 Health Aid
The Senate has approved a $55 million fund to help care for people exposed to toxins from the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/10/25/2007-10-25_senate_votes_to_extend_911_health_aid.html

October 27, 2007
Senate Votes to Extend 9/11 Health Aid
Daily News - The Senate has approved a $55 million fund to help care for people exposed to toxins from the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/10/25/2007-10-25_senate_votes_to_extend_911_health_aid.html

October 26, 2007
City Says Prescription Misuse Caused Death of Detective Who Worked at 9/11 Site
NY Times - New York City’s medical examiner has concluded that it was the misuse of prescription drugs, and not toxic ground zero dust, that killed James Zadroga, a retired detective, but other experts strongly disagree.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/nyregion/26autopsy.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

October 25, 2007
Private Workers to Get 9/11 Benefits
Newsday - Emergency medical technicians and paramedics at private voluntary hospitals who responded to the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 will receive the same worker's compensation benefits as public employees under legislation passed in the Assembly yesterday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-stalba245429854oct24,0,1483233.story

October 25, 2007
Inhalers’ Use Found to Help 9/11 Workers
NY Times - New York City firefighters who used steroid inhalers while they worked at ground zero during the early days of the rescue and recovery operations in 2001 suffered less severe respiratory problems than others, even though they were not wearing protective gear, according to a new study released yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/nyregion/25dust.html?_r=1&ex=1351051200&en=f3a07dade6171a19&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

October 24, 2007
Airport Screeners Fail to Identify Bomb Materials in Tests Conducted by TSA
Security screeners at two of the nation's busiest airports failed to find fake bombs hidden on undercover agents posing as passengers in more than 60% of tests last year, according to a classified report obtained by USA TODAY.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-17-airport-security_N.htm

October 24, 2007
Official in NYC Medical Examiner's Office Pleads Guilty to Theft of 9/11 Funds
The former director of records at the city’s chief medical examiner’s office pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to stealing millions of dollars in federal aid that was sent to the city after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack to help identify the remains gathered from ground zero.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/nyregion/24mbrfs-THEFT.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

October 19, 2007
STATEMENT BY MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON MEDICAL EXAMINER'S DETERMINATION IN CASE OF DETECTIVE JAMES ZADROGA
"The Office of Chief Medical Examiner is an independent office whose staff make their judgments based on the medical evidence. Their determination in this case does nothing to change New York City's commitment to make sure that all who were affected by 9/11 get the health care they need.
http://nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fnyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2007b%2Fpr380-07.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1

October 18, 2007
WTC Site Owner Hires Broker to Sign Tenants for Freedom Tower
Newsday - The owner of the World Trade Center site hired a broker Thursday to rent out office space in the signature skyscraper being built to replace the destroyed towers.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-redevelop1018oct18,0,5663860.story

October 17, 2007
City Talking Billion-Dollar Settlement with Sick 9/11 Workers
Daily News - The city wants to cut a billion-dollar deal with 9,000 Ground Zero workers who blame their lingering illnesses on toxins they inhaled at The Pile, the Daily News has learned.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/16/2007-10-16_city_talking_billiondollar_settlement_wi-2.html?ref=rss

October 16, 2007
Developer Plans Luxury Community Near Trade Center
Newsday - World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein has a new project near Ground Zero. Silverstein is planning to build luxury condominiums, a five-star hotel and restaurant just a block from the trade center site, he announced yesterday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nywtc165414490oct16,0,5251043.story?track=rss

October 12, 2007
Construction Booms Across the WTC's 16 Acres
From the Freedom Tower and National 9/11 Memorial to the WTC Transportation Hub and east bathtub -- across all four corners the World Trade Center (WTC) site is buzzing with activity.
http://www.lowermanhattan.info/news/construction_booms_across_the_20898.aspx

October 12, 2007
Manhattan: Bank Dismantling to Resume
NY Times - By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The state agency that owns the former Deutsche Bank building hopes to resume work dismantling it next month, and the delays after a deadly fire should not affect the rebuilding schedule at the World Trade Center site, an agency official said yesterday. Avi Schick, the chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, would not estimate the completion date for dismantling the tower, which now stands at 26 stories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/nyregion/12mbrfs-deutsche.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

October 5, 2007
City Hires 9/11 Pediatrician; W.T.C. Work Hours Expand
Downtown Express - Community Board 1’s monthly World Trade Center Committee meeting once again highlighted a mix of problems and progress in the rebuilding effort. On the positive side, the city’s new W.T.C. Health “czar,” Jeffrey Hon, announced that the city has just hired a pediatrician to focus on 9/11 health issues and will soon be funding more studies on residents’ post-9/11 health.
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_230/reportersnotebook.html

October 4, 2007
9/11 Memorial Evokes Emotions
Kentucky.com - For Ron Oer, the memories are vivid after more than six years.
http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/193513.html

September 23, 2007
WTC Vets Launch HEART 911 Group to Help Disaster Victims
NY Daily News - Other than the Pile at Ground Zero, there's no reason the two NYPD cops, Port Authority lieutenant and financial honcho would know each other.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/23/2007-09-23_wtc_vets_launch_heart_911_group_to_help_.html

September 22, 2007
Nuclear Insecurity: Russia, U.S. Must Push Effort to Stop Terrorists Seeking Atomic Bombs
The Columbus Dispatch - The sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States just passed, yet in some ways the nation remains nearly as vulnerable as it was before that vicious assault
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2007/09/22/THREAT.ART_ART_09-22-07_A6_EN7VARH.html?sid=101

September 21, 2007
More Able to Get Free Care for 9/11 Illnesses
NY Times - The city is expanding its treatment facilities to care for people sickened by ground zero dust in the aftermath of the World Trade Center collapse, city officials said yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/nyregion/21health.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=nyregion&adxnnlx=1190384367-5bKidivye7I1tjn+iXhS+Q

September 20, 2007
Iran President Asks to Visit WTC Site
ABC News - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked permission to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site when he comes to New York City next week, but the request was denied, a police official said Wednesday.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/WireStory?id=3626510&page=1

September 20, 2007
Teaching 9/11 in the Schools
There is no standard national curriculum for teaching 9/11 leaving wide latitude for school districts and teachers. A new study cites a vast range of educational approaches.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6856814

September 19, 2007
Settlements Do Not Deter 9/11 Plaintiffs Seeking Trial
NY Times - Families of 14 of the people killed in the planes hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, have settled their lawsuits, but relatives of other victims said yesterday that they would continue fighting in court to address their questions about how Islamic terrorists bypassed airport security, commandeered four jets and killed thousands of people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/nyregion/19settle.html?ref=nyregion

September 19, 2007
Mayor Backs Bill to Help Sick 9/11 Responders
Newsday - In testimony before Congress, the Bloomberg administration announced its support yesterday for a 9/11 health bill that would require the federal government to pay for health care for first responders and other environmental victims of the attack that crumbled the World Trade Center.
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/wednesday/health/ny-nywtc195381127sep19,0,5412820.story

September 18, 2007
City Aims To Launch Program To Improve Crisis Communication
NY Sun - The Bloomberg administration is aiming to adopt a host of new ways to communicate with New Yorkers during a crisis.
http://www.nysun.com/article/63041

September 18, 2007
New York City Congresspersons Introduce Comprehensive 9/11 Health Care and Compensation Legislation to Aid Those Suffering from 9/11 Related Illnesses
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2007 would extend long-term medical monitoring to everyone exposed to Ground Zero toxins and federally-funded health care to anyone who is sick as a result. Additionally, the bill would reopen the federal Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) for sick and injured 9/11 responders and lower Manhattan residents, workers and schoolchildren. Click on the link to read the proposed bill.
http://maloney.house.gov/documents/911recovery/20070321_911Health&CompensationAct.pdf

September 17, 2007
Six Years after September 11: A 9-11 Commission Progress Report
Washington Institute - Six years after September 11, terrorist attacks still threaten Americans. Although Washington has carried out major reforms to improve its counterterrorism measures, there is a critical lack of urgency on several fronts.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2663

September 14, 2007
Sadako Crane Donated to 9/11 Center
Yomiuri - An origami crane made by Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was donated Wednesday to the tribute center commemorating the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070914TDY04006.htm

September 13, 2007
6 Years Later, 9/11 Health Questions Linger
AP - No one doubts the impact of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center disaster on rescue and cleanup workers' hearts, lungs and minds.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070912/hl_hsn/6yearslater911healthquestionslinger

September 13, 2007
Flight 93 Recording to Be Played in Court
NorthJersey.com - The dramatic final moments of United Airlines Flight 93 captured on a cockpit voice recorder can be played for a jury later this month at the first trial to result from lawsuits filed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a judge ruled Wednesday.
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1JmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MTk0MzIyJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg

September 12, 2007
Marking Sixth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks
NY Times - For the first time in six years, Sept. 11 fell on a Tuesday, the same day the planes flew into the buildings and changed everything.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/nyregion/12service.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=2000327f58bc0e65&ex=1347249600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

September 12, 2007
9/11 Survivors Celebrate Life
Tallahassee.com - Donna Gabrielle wants to make September fun again. Tightness in her stomach was a foreign feeling before the terrorist attacks of 2001 killed her uncle, Richard, who worked on the 102nd floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower.
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070911/NEWS01/709110320

September 11, 2007
Galloping Toward Recovery
Star Ledger - Anna Salamone mounted her pony, Trixie, and entered the ring where horses and riders were practicing riding and jumping before the big competition at the New Jersey Professional Horsemen's Fall Finale in Titusville Saturday.
http://www.nj.com/living/ledger/index.ssf?/base/living-1/1189485683230770.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

September 11, 2007
Politics, Health of Ground Zero Workers, Hover Over 9/11 Ceremony
Newsday - Presidential politics, the health of ground zero workers and the construction of new buildings at the site of the former World Trade Center loom over this Sept. 11 more than any other anniversary of the attacks.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--sept11anniversary0911sep10,0,7718462.story

September 9, 2007
In 9/11 Remembrance, A Turning to Good Deeds
Yahoo News - On Sept. 11, Jacob Sundberg of San Antonio has pledged to make eye contact and smile at everyone he meets.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070910/ts_csm/adogood_1

September 9, 2007
Are We Safer Today?
Washington Post - Six Years After 9/11 and Three Years After the 9/11 Report, Is the U.S. Ready to Get Serious About Terrorism? By Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702050.html

September 7, 2007
Accuracy of 9/11 Health Reports Is Questioned
NY Times - Much of what is known about the health problems of ground zero workers comes from a small clinic in Manhattan that at the time of the trade center collapse had only six full-time doctors and a tiny budget.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/nyregion/07sinai.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

September 7, 2007
Progress Being Made On Construction At World Trade Center Site
NY1.com - As the controversy over the fatal fire at the Deutsche Bank building continues, progress is being made on other construction projects at the World Trade Center site.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=203&aid=73306

September 6, 2007
Members of 9/11 Commission to Speak about Nation's Safety
BellevueLeader.com - Two members of the 9/11 Commission will be returning to Bellevue University on Friday to give an update on the war on terror regarding current threats, the future of terrorism, and the status of the commission's recommendations to Congress.
http://www.bellevueleader.com/site/tab3.cfm?newsid=18780507&BRD=2712&PAG=461&dept_id=559850&rfi=6

September 5, 2007
On Display, the Agonized Objects and Photos of 9/11
NY Times - A rust-red I-beam from the World Trade Center. A battered landing gear. A melted ribbon of aluminum skin from the twin towers. Hour by hour, working through the night in his studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to forge elegant black steel mounts for these and other tortured artifacts from Sept. 11, 2001, the sculptor Richard Webber started “communing with them,” he recalled. In their presence, “you could almost hear what happened that day.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/nyregion/05exhibit.html?ref=nyregion

September 4, 2007
WTC Steel to Rise Inside 9/11 Memorial
Newsday - Visitors to the Sept. 11 memorial will see two huge pieces of the World Trade Center's original steel facade inside a glass-walled pavilion that leads them to the museum devoted to the terrorist attacks.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-memorial0904sep04,0,3094154.story

September 2007
World Trade Center Health Impacts on FDNY Rescue Workers
In the years that have passed since the attack, the FDNY's Bureau of Health Services has kept close track of how work at the site affected rescue workers, physically and emotionally. This report is the result of their painstaking efforts to study the long-term effects of the rescue and recovery effort on the people who carried it out.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/pdf/publications/wtc_assessments/2007/wtc_book_6yr_assessment.pdf

August 30, 2007
High Susceptibility to Asthma Found in 9/11 Workers
Study done by the NYC Health Dept. finds that WTC workers are twelve times more likely to develop respiratory ailments.
http://www.themoneytimes.com/articles/20070828/9_11_workers_highly_vulnerable_to_asthma-id-108752.html

August 30, 2007
New Study Reveals One-in-Eight WTC Rescue and Recovery Workers Showed Symptoms of PTSD
New findings released from the World Trade Center Health Registry show that one in eight rescue and recovery workers (12.4%) likely had post-traumatic stress disorder when they were interviewed in 2003 and 2004. The findings were published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry. To read the Study click on the link below.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2007/pr076-07.shtml

August 23, 2007
Homeland Security to Broaden Sharing of Visitor Data
Govexec.com - The Homeland Security Department on Wednesday announced broad changes for using a database that collects and stores information on foreign travelers to the United States.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37843&dcn=e_hsw

August 23, 2007
Obscure Company Is Behind 9/11 Demolition Work
NY Times - The John Galt Corporation of the Bronx, hired last year for the dangerous and complex job of demolishing the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, where two firefighters died last Saturday, has apparently never done any work like it. Indeed, Galt does not seem to have done much of anything since it was incorporated in 1983.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/nyregion/23company.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=dbef38778cd7f7ca&ex=1345521600&adxnnl=0&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1187888778-WVJimfL88ELNm0Hanv8kNA

August 23, 2007
Foreign Aid Groups Face Terror Screens
Washington Post - The Bush administration plans to screen thousands of people who work with charities and nonprofit organizations that receive U.S. Agency for International Development funds to ensure they are not connected with individuals or groups associated with terrorism, according to a recent Federal Register notice.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082202847.html

August 23, 2007
9/11 Panel to Offer Progress Report on Recommendations
Baltimore Sun - The leaders of the 9/11 commission are preparing a progress report on their recommendations for improving the nation's anti-terror defenses, with plans to release it around the sixth anniversary of the 2001 attacks.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.commission23aug23,0,6559596.story

August 22, 2007
CIA Finds Holes in Pre-9/11 Work
Washingtonpost.com - Former central intelligence director George J. Tenet and his top lieutenants failed to marshal sufficient resources and provide the strategic planning needed to counter the threat of terrorism in the years before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a summary released yesterday of a long-secret CIA report.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101104.html?hpid=topnews

August 22, 2007
Lawmakers Propose Nuclear Plant No-Fly Zones
Govexec.com - Lawmakers representing New York have introduced a bill that would permit the head of homeland security to declare no-fly zones around certain nuclear power plants, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sees little need for such a measure.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37839&dcn=todaysnews

August 21, 2007
CIA Bungled Qaeda Watch
NY Daily News - Up to 60 CIA spies saw secret reports about two "Bin Laden associates" arriving in Los Angeles in early 2000 but didn't alert the FBI about the pair, who were among the 9/11 hijackers, a blistering government report said yesterday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/08/22/2007-08-22_cia_bungled_qaeda_watch.html

August 19, 2007
2 Firefighters Are Killed in Blaze at Ground Zero
New York Times - Two firefighters were killed yesterday battling a blaze in the Deutsche Bank skyscraper, a vacant relic of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack that was in the process of being dismantled.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/nyregion/19fire.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&em&en=ce252962dc091782&ex=1187668800

August 16, 2007
Jury Finds Padilla Guilty on Terror Charges
CNN.com - The jury in the Jose Padilla terror trial has found the American guilty of conspiracy to support Islamic terrorism overseas.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/16/padilla.verdict/index.html

August 14, 2007
9/11 Memorial to Start National Tour on Eve of 6th Anniversary
Newsday - The Sept. 11 memorial is taking a new name, survivors' stories and artifacts from its planned museum on a national tour that begins in South Carolina on the eve of the terrorist attacks' sixth anniversary.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--sept11memorial0814aug13,0,2040942.story

August 13, 2007
NYPD Program To Track Health of September 11 Officers
NY Sun - In the nearly six years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the city's conflict and grief over the health problems faced by those who cleaned up ground zero have often centered on the police officers who stood guard at the site and toiled on the pile.
http://www.nysun.com/article/60395?page_no=1

August 12, 2007
9/11 Families to Enter Pit for the Last Time This Year
WNYC.com - This year's September 11th anniversary commemoration will be the final time that victims' families will be able to descend into the ground zero pit, according to Mayor Bloomberg.
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/83755

August 9, 2007
WTC Memorial Steel Beams Arrive in Ga.
Forbes.com - The steel beams shipped from overseas for use in construction of the Sept. 11 memorial in New York are so massive that a flatbed tractor-trailer can carry only one at a time.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/09/ap4004515.html

August 9, 2007
Alleged 9/11 Mastermind, 13 Others Closer to U.S. Military Trial
CNN.com - Fourteen suspected terrorists listed as "high-value detainees" at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been designated as enemy combatants, placing them in line to be charged and put on trial by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/09/enemy.combatants/index.html

August 9, 2007
DHS Taking Over Checking Passenger Info Against Watch Lists
CNN.com - The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it is changing the way aviation security is handled, which will allow it to take over the role of checking passenger information from airlines.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/09/dhs.security/index.html

August 7, 2007
'Plot Would Have Killed Thousands'
ABC News - Airports in the United States and the United Kingdom were put on red alert — meaning a potential attack could be imminent — and liquids were banned from carry-on luggage as suspects were picked up, including 24 British-born Muslims and seven Pakistanis.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Story?id=3451976&page=2

August 3, 2007
Bush Signs Bill Enacting 9/11 Recommendations
MSNBC.com - President Bush signed legislation Friday that intensifies the anti-terrorism effort at home, shifting money to high-risk states and cities and expanding scrutiny of air and sea cargo.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20109312/

August 2, 2007
9/11 Health Problems Linger; Government Response Called Inadequate
Dotmed.com - Ground zero workers still lack adequate healthcare, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an arm of Congress.
http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/4468

August 2007
Continuing Effects of 9/11
Scientific American - Six years after the events of September 11, researchers are beginning to understand the attacks’ enduring toll on mental health. Recent studies at New York–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College and New York University have shown long-term psychological and neurological repercussions in adult witnesses who were near the World Trade Center and in children who lost a parent in the tragedy.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=1878E90B-E7F2-99DF-3F4B426F6533D13A&chanId=sa017

July 24, 2007
Ailing WTC Workers Sue Captive Insurance Company
Ground zero workers suffering from illnesses, have filed court papers to demand that the company overseeing a $1 billion Sept. 11 insurance fund spend the money to pay for their healthcare.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/07/18/ailing_workers_sue_for_9_11_aid/

July 12, 2007
Deadline Extended for World Trade Center Responders and Volunteers to Register for Workers' Compensation Benefits
World Trade Center responders now have until August 2008 to file the paperwork needed to claim workers' compensation benefits if they become ill in the future.
http://www.wcb.state.ny.us/content/main/PressRe/2007/DeadlineExtforWTCResponders.jsp

June 18, 2007
Committee Draft of Terrorism Coverage Bill Divides Industry
The House Financial Services Committee is poised to unveil legislation that would reauthorize the federal government's terrorism risk insurance program with a provision that would require carriers to make available coverage of a nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological attack.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37236&sid=60

June 7, 2007
A New Parrot Sanctuary Aids in Recovery for Patients at the West L.A. Veterans Hospital
LA City Beat - Matthew H. Simons isn’t the kind of guy you would imagine spoon-feeding warm oatmeal to a middle-age cockatoo. The burly six-foot Desert Storm and Desert Shield veteran seems more like a big-dog guy and six months ago he would have agreed. But Simons has changed. Since being assigned to the Serenity Park Sanctuary, a non-profit parrot refuge on the grounds of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Westwood, Simons has acquired a new appreciation for birds.
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=5632&IssueNum=209