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FLASHPOINT for Jul 30, 2006

Sunday, July 30, 2006 | 8:16 a.m.

It was bound to happen. The paper of record has weighed in on the Las Vegas City Council's idiocy of outlawing the feeding of the homeless. The front-page treatment Friday in The New York Times comes on the heels of opprobrium hurled the council's way from all corners of the country. "Some people say I'm the mean mayor," the misunderstood Oscar Goodman told the paper, in what I'm sure he sees as great national publicity for Las Vegas. Yes, maybe it will entice businesses to come here. Because this will solve homelessness. "This is a clumsy and absurd attempt to make war on poor people," ACLU attorney Allen Lichtenstein told the Times. Clumsy? Absurd? The City Council? Never.

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