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Hoping to be able to refute the Census Bureau's findings, tentative as they are, municipal officials have begun their own head counts and are even taking the bureau to court. Two congressional subcommittees plan to convene joint hearings on the dispute this week.
Census officials are not at all surprised by the commotion. Slip-ups are just about inevitable in an undertaking as gargantuan as this year's $1 billion effort to reach the nation's 86 million households and then process the answers contained on 120 million forms. It is...
Arrested on a shoplifting charge, Seyedashraf faced up to a year in jail and a fine of $500. Worse, if he was found guilty, immigration officials could deport him on grounds of "moral turpitude." Last week Montgomery Municipal Judge Carl Harris ruled Seyedashraf innocent, sternly declaring: "No consideration can or...
For now, the best preventive medicine, other than prompt removal of infected trees, is constant vigilance, spraying and pruning. New York City has 33,000 American elms, one of the largest municipal collections in the East. Fewer than 1% died last year, largely because the elms are doused each spring...
First Amendment. The Justices upheld a California decision, based on the state's constitution, permitting petition drives in private shopping centers. They also threw out a municipal ordinance that limited door-to-door and on-street fund raising by "cause" groups (Village of 'Schaumburg vs. Citizens for a...