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...Hybrids allow people to feel they are doing the right thing for the planet," says Michael Feinstein, a Santa Monica councilman who just bought a Prius for his mother. That's nice, but the breakthrough is that Americans finally have green cars that are convenient enough and cool enough to drive...
Among local activists, there's concern that the "known troublemakers" and "infiltrators" that the law's sponsor, Councilman Richard Mariano, hopes to guard against will be confused with nonviolent street-theater performers and demonstrators who have taken a cautionary lesson from the Seattle and Washington protests. "Particularly in Seattle," says a labor organizer who attended both, "just being out on the street meant you were subject to chemical warfare...
Booker lives in Brick Towers, one of the largest low-income housing complexes in Newark, N.J. When he graduated from law school in 1997, instead of taking a job with a six-digit salary, Booker successfully ran for city councilman in a place that has perhaps the gloomiest reputation on the East Coast. Newark for years has ranked among the worst cities in the country for violent crime and poverty. And yet, Booker says with a straight face, "this city is the land of milk and honey"--only minutes from the wealth and culture of New York City. "The tragedy...
Booker's first stop this summer is a battered street corner near Newark's Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Last Thursday the councilman went door to door, listening to people's concerns: one woman shows him her broken, housing-authority refrigerator; another takes him to a stripped-bare playground where the dirt reeks of urine...
...York's World Trade Center, as well as an open-air drug market--the motor home looks like a carnival curiosity. Women walking with their children look quizzically at the vehicle and ask if there's a book giveaway. They have trouble believing that Booker is a city councilman. "Does he know what neighborhood he's in?" asks Maryann DiCostonzi, 39, who grew up here...