October 18, 2007 edition


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COVER STORY:

Fat chance on trans fats

The City Council caucus room took on the feel of a stadium locker room before a big game last week. A cheer went up when Councilwoman Joan Krajewski entered the room — the door decorated with a sign that read Krajewski Bakeries.
That cheer was a prelude to the team’s big win before the City Council Public Health and Human Service Committee, which voted 5-1 on Oct. 10 to endorse the exemption of bakeries from the citywide trans-fat ban.

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EDITORIAL

Food for thought

City Councilwoman Joan Krajewski just can’t make up her mind. First she announced her retirement from Council three years ago only to do an about-face early this year; she’s running for an eighth four-year term next month with — unfortunately — token opposition from The Invisible Man, a Republican named Michael Ebsworth.
Then she voted to ban the use of trans fats by many food establishments in the city, only to come out vigorously last week in favor of exempting mom-and-pop bakeries from the ban.
As one of Council’s misguided souls who . . .

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