Get the lead out

We now know that there are schools in the region that have high lead levels.

Most of them are in Buffalo and will take money that the district does not have to fix. 

The suburban schools will easily (more) come up with the money to address their problems,  but  Buffalo can not afford to fix all the issues at once.  And consider how long the problem has been going on,  there may be no fix for the  health problems that students will (and are) suffering from.

We are aware of this problem because of the crisis in Detroit with its lead problem.

The Democrats and Republicans blame each other for that crisis.  No one wants to talk about the collapse of the stock market and how Detroit lost millions of dollars on the market due to the crash in 2007.

Neither party wants to talk about the corporations that closed their shops and sent the jobs overseas to countries where tey can basically practice slave labor.

The entire lead crisis is a crisis of capitalism. 
No one is willing to say that.

And what happened to Detroit happened to Buffalo with the white flight of the 1970's.

Except NY was willing to bribe corporations to move to Buffalo and WNY.  (The Buffalo Billion,  which has problems of its own now.)

So Buffalo is leading WNY in lead.
I think they'd rather lead in something else.