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After more than a year, Cambridge residents succeeded in passing a petition through City Council on Monday to ban trucks weighing over two and a half tons from driving through Cambridge at night...
...ban, which the council approved 9-0, will be enforced from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. to limit through traffic--trucks that originate in Cambridge or make deliveries here will still be able to travel at night...
Representative Henry Hyde, Republican of Illinois, has the most ambitious plan. It would ban sales of obscenely violent and explicitly sexual material to minors. Hyde also wants Congress to urge stores to make song lyrics available to parents before purchase. And he wants a study on the effects of music and video games on youth violence--though the Congressman seems to believe he knows what the findings would be. "There is a spiritual vacuum in these young people," he said last week, "that is filled with the culture of death and violence...
Alabama: Proposed lifting from its constitution a ban on interracial marriages...
...requiring all law-enforcement agencies to track racial data from traffic stops. Only a few police departments, including those in San Jose, Calif., and San Diego, now do so. The organization is also pushing for an end to so-called "pretext stops" as a crime-fighting tool and a ban on racial profiling in all federally funded drug-interdiction programs...