Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control
Sunday, February 5th, 2012 at
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control. The two mayors, whose local teams face off in the huge game, are making the pitch for Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the organization they co-founded in 2006. …
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control. The two mayors, whose local teams face off in the huge game, are making the pitch for Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the organization they co-founded in 2006. …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. homelessness fell 1 percent nationwide from 2009 to 2011 despite the sluggish economy but the figure threatens to rise as the federal government cuts spending, according to a study released on Wednesday. The number of homeless people in the United States fell to 636,017 last year from 643,067 in 2009, the Inhabitant Alliance to End Homelessness said in its crash. The decline was likely due to the .5 billion in federal spending aimed at preventing homelessness, said the Alliance, which groups public, private and non-profit organizations. …
(Reuters) – Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State University football coach fired in the fallout from child sex abuse allegations against former assistant Jerry Sandusky, says he was unsure how to handle the initially crash about Sandusky that reached him in 2002. “I didn’t know exactly how to handle it, and I was worried to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was,” Paterno told The Washington Post in his initially extensive public comments since being dismissed by the university in November. …