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...over the figures for May 1985, while arrests for heroin, marijuana and other drugs had dropped. Crack has all but consumed parts of neighborhoods such as Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant and the South Bronx that are primarily made up of poor blacks. Says the Rev. Wendell Foster, a Bronx city councilman: "It's a new form of genocide...
...what it was, unaware of its loose ways until Roy McNeely rolled up in a 1973 Winnebago, for which he had traded a motorcycle, a sidecar and $1,200. Nowadays, even the townsfolk who back the new marshal say that his zealotry riles 50% of their lot. City Councilman Martin Devere, a businessman whose charges include Boothill cemetery, and a McNeely supporter, says that "anyone good in that job is bound to ruffle feathers." A local innkeeper says flatly, "I think he's an egomaniac. We had a little fender bender out front here, and you'd of thought...
Maurizio Cardano, a city councilman in Naples, where housing is in such short supply that many newlyweds have to live with their parents, had an idea. Why not set aside a few acres of police-protected parkland overlooking the Bay of Naples as a giardino dell'eros, or love garden, where young couples could park their cars and safely enjoy a bit of privacy? But Cardano's suggestion has drawn a storm of protest, especially from the Roman Catholic Church. A Catholic weekly grumbled that it would "legitimize fornication and extramarital adventures." Corrado Cardinal Ursi told a crowd...
...foreign news and the equally strong desire of Driscoll to play up local stories. Though the Globe covered Boston as thoroughly under Janeway as it had under Winship, the perception grew in the newsroom that the paper's editor preferred reading about the French elections to following a councilman's race in east Boston...
...proposed ordinance is only a first step toward turning Councilman Vellucci's epithet into a reality, toward making Cambridge a sanctuary city. Though temporary shelters are a bandaid on the homeless problem, they are necessary. Unfortunately, human concern often turns from a moral imperative regarding the plight of the homeless in someone else's neighborhood, to a personal threat and inconvenience in one's own. It is precisely at this time, when we appreciate the support and security of our own communities, that we can help others to find a place called home...