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    • Las Vegas marshals ticket 7, arrest 3 amid homeless protests

      Posted by Billbar from Las Vegas Sun

      Three people were arrested and seven were issued summonses at two parks, city officials said, including a reporter and a cameraman ticketed for trespassing while covering the protest for KLAS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas. "The idea was to go out there and show the mayor this ordinance makes no sense whatsoever," said Beth Monk, 24, a traffic reporter and radio comedy team sidekick who has engaged in publicity stunts including mud wrestling on the job.

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      Las Vegas Makes It Illegal to Feed Homeless in Parks

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      “The government here doesn’t care about anybody,” said one homeless woman, Linda Norman, 55, taking a bottle of water and already perspiring in morning heat approaching 100 degrees at Huntridge Circle Park, a manicured, well-watered three-acre patch of green in a residential area near downtown. “We just want to eat.”

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    Feeding homeless outlawed

    This is just obscene.

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    5:33 am 7/21/06
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