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25, 2005 Homeowners in the dark over mold By Bruce Meyerson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - The asbestos problem seemed pretty scary until the crew we hired to remove it from our new home pointed out the fuzzy black mold growing in the closet.

I tried to take the news calmly, hopeful the harrowing stories I'd read about families' being forced to flee their mold-infested homes were merely the exceptional cases that make for headlines.

The inescapable reality, however, was that I planned to move my family, including a newborn and a 3-year-old, into a potentially hazardous environment.

So, heart firmly planted in stomach, I set out to supplement my recent crash course in asbestos wit...

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(education) Contact - Newspapers TV Commercials Readership North Jersey Media Group www.njmg.com Partners GroundZeroSpirit.org Food Drive OPINION THE RECORD Your views Monday, September 26, 2005 I just got my tax bill, which is based on the recent revaluation of Dumont property.

Needless to say, the bill is staggering.

Coupled with recent articles on the Bergenfield revaluation, my experience makes it quite clear to me that the system of basing local taxes on property values is broken.

Why is it that we penalize homeowners for taking care of their homes?

Why is it that a clever person who can hide that third bathroom in the basement behind a series of boxes when the assessor comes to inspect gets to pay $500 less each year than the person whose bathroom wasn't easy to hide?

The system is patently unfair and promotes all the wrong values.

We need to rethink how we assess homes.

People should be rewarded, not penalized, for improvements.

I say residential...

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25, 2005 Scant data, regulations make mold fears worse Cleanup market booms with public health scare By BRUCE MEYERSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - The asbestos problem seemed pretty scary until the crew we hired to remove it from our new home pointed out the fuzzy black mold growing in the closet.

I tried to take the news calmly, hopeful the harrowing stories I've read about families being forced to flee their mold-infested homes were merely the exceptional cases that make for headlines.

The inescapable reality, however, was that I planned to move my family, including a newborn and a three-year-old, into a potentially hazardous environment.

So, heart firmly planted in stomach, I set out to supplement my recent crash course in asbestos with some postgraduate ...