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...populate the courts with Scalia clones may be enough to appease some of them. But for Land and those he speaks for, the problem is personal. A recent New York Times story detailing Giuliani's estrangement from his children was just the latest reminder of the former New York mayor's baroque marital history...
...York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg denounced the party gridlock in the federal government, speaking at the Kennedy School of Government last Friday after accepting the Pathfinder Award for public leadership. Bloomberg said that Washington is “dysfunctional” and too preoccupied with “what their little constituency wants.” The mayor was especially critical of Washington’s treatment of issues surrounding education, saying that the national government is “all talk” but no action. “Children are so far down the list when decisions...
...unenforceable, activists and council members practically fell over each other to rail against the word's toxic effect. The ban, of course, will fail, not because it is an unenforceable waste of time, words and taxpayer's money (it's technically a "resolution," which does not require the Mayor's signature), but for the same reasons that other kinds of cleansing efforts have failed for decades: nigger is a great word...
...number of murders in Detroit climbed more than 17% last year. While 3,100 American soldiers have died in the war in Iraq, 1,518 Detroiters have been murdered during roughly the same four-year stretch from the beginning of 2003 to the end of 2006, says Cox. "The mayor is doing everything he can but he needs more resources," says...
...Detroit's chronic deficit, however, has forced the mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to take officers off the street when more are needed. The state of Michigan, which is also facing a $2 billion budget deficit in the wake of the rapid downsizing of the state's automobile industry, is doing all it can to help Detroit, says Liz Boyd, spokeswoman for Governor Jennifer Granholm. The state has cracked down on offenders caught using guns in a crime and has worked to improve the coordination between federal, state, county and local police in and around Detroit. Cox says poverty and unemployment certainly...