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...Angeles City Councilman Joel Wachs grew so ashamed of Fuhrman's taped comments that he took out a half-page ad, at a cost of $10,000, in the Los Angeles Times today. "The city owes you an apology," it reads, in part. "The Mark Fuhrman tapes have disgraced...
Some residents believe the no-growth movement is futile and foolish. Says John Healy, a councilman in Parker: "The mind-set is 'I've got my five acres, so close the door.' " Gordon Mickelson, whose plans to develop 2,900 acres in Broomfield, Colorado, were thwarted by a local six-month suspension of planning hearings, says such measures could have dire consequences. "When you send a message of no growth, you're telling business, 'Don't come here...
...intend to prove that on October 5, 1994, William Walsh, who was then a Cambridge city councilman, went into Gallery 57 of the Cambridge City Hall annex and maliciously and intentionally destroyed Hans Evers' property," Moffatt said...
Milk was a gay politician in San Francisco who became a martyr of the homosexual-rights movement in 1978, when he was shot and killed by another city councilman. The opera divides his life into three parts: "The Closet," "The Castro" and "City Hall" represent his sexual coming-of-age as a gay Jewish boy in New York, his rise to local fame at the epicenter of San Francisco's outlandish and highly promiscuous gay neighborhood and, finally, his death at the hands of Dan White, a former cop and fireman who hated everything Milk stood...
...Cinemax," says 11-year-old Brynn Dziewiatowski. "I watch twice as much TV as I did before." Isabelle Moren, 74, who is homebound because of emphysema, is just as big a fan, particularly of the Discovery Channel: "I like all that scenery, and it's educational." Town councilman Ed Hotaling, 42, who runs a florist shop, thinks the new TV offerings are "just great. At least it's something to see from the outside world. I used to go to bed around 9 o'clock. The other night I went to bed at 12 after watching television...