Rush Hour Was Crawl Hour Big Nish Pushes Work Delay Shuts Half of Twin Bridges at Peak Time the Evening Lane Closing

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MORE NEWS SPORTS Rush hour was crawl hour Big nish pushes Work delay shuts half of Twin Bridges at peak time the evening lane closing. Work on replacement of the By Tim O’Brien lanes of the bridge to be closed to northbound deck is planned for ValleyCats to nal all trafc until after noon Monday. ve out of the next six weekends, A construction delay that kept with no roadwork set for the Co- Tri-City scores 11 the northbound side of the Thad- For the evening commute, a single runs combined in northbound lane was again closed lumbus Day holiday weekend. deus Kosciuszko Bridge closed for Trafc will be steered into one lane the seventh and as crews tried to secure a steel pan- the morning rush hour Monday is in each direction on the south- eighth innings el to the bridge deck. not expected to be repeated dur- bound side of the bridge. to beat Auburn ing ve other weekends of similar “I do advise commuters to con- Next spring, the southbound and reach the roadwork, a state Department of tinue to nd alternate routes while lanes will be closed on a series of New York-Penn Transportation spokeswoman said. construction is ongoing, but we weekends while the deck is re- SKIP DICKSTEIN/TIMES UNION League cham- Steel plates on the Twin Bridges don’t expect this type of problem placed as part of a $29 million TRAFFIC WAS rerouted from I-87 northbound in Colonie to Route 7 pionship series./C1 took longer to install than an- going forward,” DOT spokes- east to Route 9 north due to an unexpected construction problem ticipated, causing the northbound woman Carol Breen said before Please see TRAFFIC A8 on the Twin Bridges. Ofcials don’t expect big problems Tuesday. REGION Schenectady OKs sales tax deal Under Council passes a controversial deal that the budget director says will cost the city millions AMERICA REMEMBERS in prospective revenue./B1 scrutiny, REGION JCOPE Colonie Police seek jewel thief speaks Someone has taken items worth tens of thousands from In unusual move, panel homes in Loudonville./B1 conrms probe amid questions over Lopez BUSINESS By Rick Karlin

Kodak plans to cut ALBANY — Under pressure from the media and many of the elected officials who appointed 1,000 more jobs them, the members of the Joint Rochester-based company Commission on Public Ethics on says it will lay off more em- Monday took the unprecedented ployees this year as it tries to move of acknowledging that an in- emerge from bankruptcy./D1 vestigation was moving forward. But beyond saying that JCOPE NATION members had unanimously voted to start a probe, Chairwoman Janet DiFiore offered no details about Teachers strike the target or scope of the investigation — although it’s widely under- Chicago educators walk PAUL BUCKOWSKI/TIMES UNION stood to be an examination of the out over job security and UNION COLLEGE students planted 2,000 ags to mark the 9/11 anniversary. “This is an event that dened our generation in sexual harassment charges against evaluation disputes./A4 particular. It will stay with our generation and change the way we view the world,” said student Nick D’Angelo. Story/B3 Assemblyman Vito Lopez and the circumstances surrounding the As- BUSINESS leven years after nearly 3,000 people sembly’s decision to sign off on a A3 Museum A7 A decade after $135,000 settlement with two of died in the worst terrorist attacks on funding agreement is his death, family his alleged victims. nally reached. learns of father’s nal Go get a job American soil, we pause to look back JCOPE’s very acknowledg- E A3 9/11 remains moments in note. ment of an investigation, however, at the pain and look forward to the future. Panel at Tech Expo says local volatile political issue. B3 Events around runs counter to past practice at the schools can offer instant cred- Capital Region 9-month-old watchdog entity and ibility in a nano market./D1 A6 Passengers of Flight 93 honored. reect on 9/11. its predecessor, the Commission on Public Integrity, in which members SPORTS steadfastly maintained they were prohibited from even saying they were conducting an investigation. Murray ends major Monday’s vote comes days after news reports suggested JCOPE was investigating the allegations drought for British against Lopez, the embattled Andy Murray beat Novak Djok- Brooklyn Democratic boss, but ovic for the U.S. Open title, not the involvement of Assem- the rst Grand Slam win for a bly Democratic Majority Speaker British man since 1936./C1 Please see JCOPE A8

NL Industries focus Emotion at sentencing Kindlon, Conners of new health study deny leaking data Exams set for people after mid-October.Work on de- Social Security numbers Information Law request was who were near former signing the study has been going part of FOIL request emailed to Conners from Eddie on since the spring of 2011. Ayala, the manager for Kindlon’s uranium weapons plant Health Department spokes- sent to comptroller campaign for district attorney. man Peter Constantakes said Records show Ayala sought “any By Brian Nearing urine and blood samples from By Robert Gavin and all additional payments” to study participants will be checked Soares’ staff between Jan. 1, 2007 ALBANY — A long-sought ALBANY — The campaign for the potential presence of both manager for Lee Kindlon asked and Feb. 29, 2012. health study on hundreds of depleted and total uranium. Re- “I believe these records are in workers and neighbors of a for- Albany County Comptroller Mi- sults from urine tests will be chael Conners for information the possession of the comptrol- mer uranium weapons plant is set shared with individual partici- ler’s ofce,”Ayala wrote. “I wish to launch this fall, according to on payments made to District pants, he said. Attorney David Soares’ staff — to have access to these records the state Health Department. Advocates have been pushing reserving the right to make cop- The study will focus on up SKIP DICKSTEIN/TIMES UNION six months before the same data the state for decades to study the appeared on a local blog Thurs- ies of any and all.” to 500 people who worked at health of people in and around the Ron Chaplin, center, reacts to a Crosier family member and is restrained That information — along or lived near the NL Industries day along with the staffers’ Social plant, where depleted uranium by his wife, Deb, second from right, during Scott Chaplin’s sentencing with the Social Security numbers plant on Central Avenue, and the Security numbers. On March 2, a Freedom of rst participants will be signed up Please see STUDY A8 Monday for the murder of Rosemary Ellsworth Crosier. Story/B1 Please see BLOG A4

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