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...victory party for Minnesota's first African-American congressman, Keith Ellison, took place at a trendy nightclub in Minneapolis's downtown warehouse district. Down the block from a glitzy sex shop, Trocaderos is the kind of place where both gays and straights look to get picked up, either at the bar or on the dance floor. But on this occasion, the floor was packed with enthusiastic supporters of Ellison, who also happens to be the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress...
...beyond the hyperbole obfuscation lie the “San Francisco values” the conservatives don’t tell you about. The city guarantees universal health care for all of its residents. There is only one gun shop listed in the Yellow Pages. The percentage of families below the poverty line is 8.9 percent according to the census bureau’s American community survey, below the national level of 10.2 percent. If these are the values that Pelosi brings to the top job in the House, there’s much cause for optimism...
...That's certainly the way it felt last week when thousands of Delhi shop owners called a three-day strike, burned tires in the street, organized mock funerals for the Delhi state government, and stoned policemen and passing vehicles. The cause of the traders' anger was a February Supreme Court ruling instructing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to "seal" - close or demolish - 44,000 stores operating illegally in Delhi's residential areas. The Court established a three-member monitoring panel to ensure its orders were enacted, and after months of legal back and forth the "sealing drive" finally began last...
...Outraged shop owners blame their predicament on both the Court and corrupt local government officials, whom they accuse of taking bribes for years to allow traders to bypass local planning and zoning regulations. Now, the traders want the state and federal governments to find a way around the Supreme Court order, even if that means changing the Constitution. The Court's order is opposed by the ruling Congress Party and its main opposition, while Delhi's Municipal Corporation says it cannot carry out any more sealings because of the danger of a violent backlash. But after another hearing on Monday...
...Setting aside the merits of the case - in a city of 15 million that has grown chaotically over the past few decades, stricter rules would be welcomed by harassed residents, although they would also hurt many small shop owners - the brouhaha clearly illustrates the central role of the Supreme Court in India's daily governance. And it's not confined to urban planning. Last month, the Court ruled that the country's 250 zoos could no longer breed animals, in response to a complaint by animal rights activists that the zoos are overcrowded and badly run. The Court also recently...