CWE Says Jump, City Hall Asks How High February 21, 2008
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ST. LOUIS — City Hall has a message for persistent panhandlers: Change your ways.
City aldermen are poised to outlaw “aggressive” panhandling, create panhandling-free zones and make it illegal to beg at night.
The proposal mirrors steps taken by other cities frustrated with panhandlers frightening tourists or harassing pedestrians.
In St. Louis, the push comes from the city’s signature retail district, the Central West End, where store owners say brazen beggars are threatening their business.
So City Hall’s only considering it because the Central West End business community wants it. Panhandling goes on in many other places in this city, and has for a long time. Why no clamor for action then?
Supporters of the city’s effort say panhandlers staking out cash machines or confronting diners are operating more out of opportunity than need.
“They’re not homeless. They’re not hungry — this is their chosen career,” said Tricia Roland-Hamilton, president of the Central West End Association.
It’s more like they’re thirsty.
Fast and Loose With the Truth February 21, 2008
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Remember the famous Columbia University noose incident? Madonna Constantine, the prof whose office door the noose was found on, has a very strained relationship with the concept of truth.
Shanked At Shawangunk February 21, 2008
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Nothing ever became him in life like the leaving of it.
AP:
A man who gained notoriety after wounding six police officers in a 1986 gunfight that led to a nationwide manhunt was killed in prison, corrections officials said Thursday.
Larry Davis, serving 25 years to life on a murder conviction in an unrelated case, was stabbed to death around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday during a recreational break at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, said Erik Kriss, a spokesman for the state Department of Correctional Services.
Davis was stabbed repeatedly with a 12-inch long, half-inch wide homemade metal shank in the arms, head, back, upper thigh and chest, Kriss said.
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Closer to Fruition February 21, 2008
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The secret CIA/CofCC plot to assassinate the noted community activist and social justice advocate known as Mumia Abu-Jamal is closer to fruition. The secret CIA operatives, who have the outward appearances of members of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, rejected a defense attempt to nullify the testimony of prosecution witnesses whom the defense now thinks perjured themselves.
(Note to sane people: Don’t take this entire story literally. Note to anarchists: Take this entire story literally.)
