Introduction On November 24, 2007, September 11th widow Lorie Van Auken whose husband Kenneth W. Van Auken had died in the North Tower spoke before an audience at the Episcopal Church-in-the-Bowery. In support of a campaign for the City of New York to investigate the ‘attacks,’ she remarked: It turns out almost everything about 9/11 was
Los Angeles is famous for its freeways and traffic jams, but the metropolis actually began as a railtown and looks like it may become one again soon. This is the story of a railtown's rise, demise and rise again.