Word: homeless
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Dumont has been getting off easy compared with some of his brethren. Cities across the U.S. are toughening the rules of engagement in the war on homelessness. Thirty-five municipalities, from Tampa, Fla., to Tucson, Ariz., are enacting or enforcing punitive anti-vagrancy ordinances, banning everything from loitering on median strips to getting food handouts in public parks. Fed up with the homeless, who, they say, are increasingly aggressive, violent and bad for business, at least 24 cities now conduct nightly "police sweeps" of their streets. In New York City, Mayor Rudy Giuliani vowed to clamp down after a homeless...
...laughed out loud when I read George Hicks' declaration that he was a "nice person" in his latest column. It is amazing that the same person who ridiculed a homeless woman about her weight decides to devote so much space to the rudeness of others...
When an abandoned warehouse in Worcester caught fire last Friday, two firefighters entered the building to search for homeless people reportedly still inside. After the two firefighters radioed for help, four others responded. All six men died...
...homeless couple has been charged with starting the fire, which authorities believe began when they knocked over a candle during an argument. The two have pled guilty to six counts of involuntary manslaughter...
...While that's good news for Cuomo, and may even lead to some help for the homeless nationwide, the story is another example of how a small urban event - in this case, the alleged assault with a brick by intermittently homeless man Paris Drake that sent a young woman to the hospital - can become of national interest when seen through the Giuliani-Hillary prism. Homelessness becomes hot, a chance for the two candidates to flaunt their party stripes. On one side the Republican mayor vows to protect society from the "violent crazies" (as a Daily News headline called them) walking...