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...Sweepers. Against this background, Stokes and the council have put forth separate tax proposals-both defeated by the voters. The cutbacks came quickly: 1,700 city employees have been laid off, recreation and health programs were reduced, Clevelanders now have to haul their garbage to the sidewalk for collection, and street sweepers are unavailable to clean up after the collectors. No policemen or firemen have been laid off, but none will be hired, and the police academy has, been closed. The hiring freeze is certain to erase the 2.1% decrease in crime in downtown Cleveland, which Stokes' administration...
...equivalent to drilling a hole From the sidewalk into a bank vault Pumping out money And calling it free-enterprise discovery...
...about 10 a.m. we crossed Pennsylvania Avenue. We began our worship service on part of the sidewalk next to the Executive Drive. We were within a stone's throw of the White House...
Nearly everyone held the fast until Easter, and the next week the charge of incommoding the sidewalk was dropped against the rest...
...hours after we began the service, police issued three warnings to clear the one-third of the sidewalk we were occupying. By the third warning the police had formed lines prohibiting pedestrian traffic on the entire block. One by one friends were helped from their kneeling positions and placed under formal arrest. The rest of us continued to sing. We were charged with what the police lines so successfully accomplished- "incommoding the sidewalk...