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Sponsored by the K-School's Institute of Politics and the Journal of Hispanic Policy, the speakers included Mayor Xavier Suarez of Miami; Maria A. Berriozabal, a city councilwoman from San Antonio, Texas; Dr. Harry Pachon, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials; and Willie Velasquez, executive director of the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project...
Black leaders do not expect to see many extra police patrolling the beat in their districts. The L.A.P.D. has refused to make public how its forces are allotted. Councilwoman Gloria Molina claims that the department assigns police equally, whether the crime is the theft of a BMW in West Los Angeles or the killing of a black youngster in Watts. She has attached an amendment to the city budget to force Police Chief Daryl Gates to reveal his formula for deploying his forces...
...delta is representative of problems throughout the state. For example, the just completed $4 million Yukon-Kuskokwim youth correctional facility will probably never open its doors. There is no state money to operate it. "So much of our economy has been artificial," says City Councilwoman Diane Carpenter, speaking of a generation of pork-barrel construction projects expensively built on pilings above the shifting permafrost. "Now that there are no jobs for young people, there will be social dislocation, anger and bitterness...
...last week's debacle. "I think people do not believe his handling of the situation demonstrated the kind of sensitivity to their neighborhoods they would have expected," said black Democratic City Councilman John Street. "I think he's going to hurt first and hardest in his own backyard." City Councilwoman-at-Large Agusta Alexander Clark, a Goode ally, is worried. "The brother was Mr. Teflon," she said. "He's been scratched now. The question is, Has he been scratched all the way down to the base metal?" Chuck Stone, veteran black columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, thinks...
...another confusing tidbit. A city councilwoman on that same Monday tossed a number-two man at the city's Department of Public Works from the payroll. The DPW has been revealed as a swarming hive of iniquity by Chief Tony Mancuso's probe, and its deputy director. Edward Melise, lost his DPW job a while back when he was convicted of extortion Mayor Cianci had been nice enough to put Eddie on $503-a-week paid leave, but the council didn't figure that was the right punishment...