Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last days of a steamy summer, as pity runs thin, a backlash against beggars is smoldering across the country. Its chief spokesman is New York Mayor Ed Koch, who is urging people to help banish the panhandlers by refusing to give them anything. Koch avers that "many people who panhandle just don't want to work for a living." They are, he insists, addicts, alcoholics and con artists, and those who give them money are easy marks. Sympathetic people would do better to give to established charities, the mayor advises, to ensure that the money be used to help people...
Sensing a shift in public mood, policymakers and civic leaders are moving ! in. Some remedies are humane, such as New York's Project Help, which sends two vans out to provide food, clothing, rides to shelters and medical care to the mentally ill homeless. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has introduced a pilot program to provide job counseling, health care and legal assistance from mobile offices...
Never inclined to shun controversy, New York City Mayor Ed Koch last week offered solace and a solution to millions of pedestrians who cannot pass by a panhandler without feeling guilty. Koch's advice: donate to a charity instead. Most street beggars, in the mayor's view, are "mentally disturbed or it's a scam." Many "just don't want to work for a living" and spend the take from passersby on "booze and drugs." Koch said he will lead an advertising campaign to encourage gifts to volunteer agencies and to tell panhandlers where they can find help. Leaders...
...able to persuade Judge Sand to modify his ruling. Grandstanding politicians in the Yonkers stalemate could find a guiding example of courageous leadership in Boston. Neighborhood resistance to the integration of public projects in Irish South Boston is at least as intense as that in the New York suburb. Mayor Ray Flynn, who lives in Southie, began his political career in the mid-1970s as a community leader in the disastrous fight against school desegregation. But now Flynn is working with black and white community groups and federal officials to resolve rather than raise conflict. Last month two black families...
Either Jackson will attempt to silence the challenger as he tried earlier this year when Detroit Mayor Coleman Young refused to endorse him in Michigan. Or he will welcome the challenger, without trying to intimidate his competitor, and be glad there is another Black playing the game...