Word: sheriff
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...have had the cowboy. We don't need the sheriff with his "have gun, will travel" foreign policy. Our problems cannot be solved in a quick-draw contest. It is time for all Americans to accept personal responsibility for our part in what is happening to our country. We must vote and then pay attention to what our elected officials do. We all need to become better crisis managers of our own personal lives and finances, and of the natural resources of our world. Linda Bracken, Wagoner, Oklahoma...
...just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today.' THOMAS J. DART, sheriff of Cook County, Ill., on suspending foreclosure evictions in the Chicago area because renters were not being properly notified about their landlords' financial problems...
Last week, Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County, Illinois issued a press release that quickly became news across the country; he was suspending all foreclosure evictions in the area because banks weren't notifiying tenants about their landlord's problems. "These mortgage companies only see pieces of paper, not people, and don't care who's in the building," Dart said in the release. "We're just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today." The Illinois Bankers Association quickly fired back with its own public statement, calling Dart's move "vigilantism." But supporters have been just as vocal...
...were a state prosecutor and a state representative before becoming sheriff, how has this background affected your approach...
...worked with police departments throughout my career. But I think the fact that I'm not a traditional sheriff in the sense that I'm not a police officer, I think it helps me in a lot of respects because I have a tendency to look at things from a little bit of a different angle. And I'm not saying that's necessarily the best or the worst thing, but I'm saying that I can sometimes look at things that have been sitting there for awhile and done a certain way and say, "Maybe we ought to take...