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Subscribe Today Manage Your Account Business & Economy Frist Right to Push Asbestos Reform by Jack KempPosted Nov 22, 2005 Text Size: S M L printer-friendly email to a friend respond to this article Leadership Change Could Put Passenger Rail Back on Track Prosperity Is at Hand Liberals Lured by Free Lunch What's Inflation?

I applaud Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who recently announced that, "Asbestos reform will be the first major piece of legislation that we consider in late January when we return." That is great news for Americans like Mike Carter, owner of Monroe Rubber and Gasket Co.

in Monroe, La., who has 75 asbestos lawsuits pending against his company, which never manufactured the product.For many years we have been operating in a system in which people who aren't sick are demanding compensation from a pool of defendants who have had increasingly less to do with asbestos exposure.

This has also marginalized real asbestos victims, who can't have cases heard due to the onslaught of lawyer-driven claims that make up in volume what they lack i...

... Ghost ship disposal project treading water Daily Press: News Local Hampton Roads, Virginia - November 22, 2005 7:00 AM Customer Service Advertiser Index 5-Day Forecast Currently: 50° F Light Rain Showers Humidity: 87% Chance of precip: 80% Search: Site / Archives Web Email this story Printer friendly format Search archives Money for local projects Besides money for the ghost fleet, a federal spending bill approved by Congress includes money for other Hampton Roads projects, such as:« $1.6 million in transportation improvements near Jamestown in preparation for the 400th anniversary celebration in 2007.« $850,000 for improvements to the Fort Eustis Gateway project.« $2.3 million for air-traffic control facilities at Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport.« $500,000 for the Christopher Newport University Real Estate Foundation's redevelopment of the Warwick Boulevard commercial corridor.« $200,000 for the USS Monitor Center at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News.« $250,000 to Newport News for the restoration of USS Monitor artifacts.« $200,000 to renovate the former Phoenix Bank of Nansemond for the Suffolk Museum of African-American History.« $300,000 for emergency signals at the James River Bridge.« $250,000 for natural-gas buses for the Jamestown anniversary.