Biolab Going to Kansas

The Clarion-Ledger reported today that the new Biolab, currently located on Plum Island, NY, will be built in Manhattan, Kansas, not Flora, Mississippi.

We have been spared a very, very risky project. The politicians and economic development people, as well as the local press, have been strong supporters of the project. The JP has opposed it from the moment that Flora looked like a candidate. I’ve never seen such a blackout on unfavorable comment about the project in the press. The possibility of so much money seemed to blind everyone to the dangers of keeping potentially lethal organisms and toxins near our homes.

The lab belongs on a remote deserted island, not on the U. S. mainland.

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