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Last Thursday a Maryland appeals court upheld that ruling. Within a few weeks, Cornilous could be taken from the heartbroken Maryland woman with whom he has spent almost all of his short life and who wants to adopt him. The case has drawn national attention and fueled a bitter debate over the courts' strong bias in favor of "family preservation." Complains Bill Pierce, president of the National Council for Adoption: "It is not in Cornilous' best interest to be part of a social experiment to observe what might happen if Latrena Pixley is given one more chance...
...murder of her daughter, allowed Laura Blankman, a woman she had befriended at the public defender's office, to take custody of her son informally. Blankman, 28, now a police officer, has cared for and supported Cornilous since he was three months old. Last fall she decided to adopt him. Pixley, by then in a part-time detention facility, resisted--even though she had been unable to hold down a steady job, and had contributed a grand total of $200 to her son's care. In a case burdened by race--Pixley is black, Blankman white--the courts once again...
Local politicians took the opportunity to lambaste Harvard and demand the University adopt a contracting policy modeled on Cambridge's own "Responsible Employer Ordinance" to ensure contractors provide adequate benefits to their workers...
Members of the Cambridge Retirement Board along with members of other groups representing retired city workers urged the council to adopt an ordinance that will allow the appointed Cambridge Retirement Board (CRB) to pass yearly COLAs at its discretion...
...recently voted unanimously that the council should adopt the ordinance...