The ordinance would in effect ban all new commercial businesses on I-40, all routes leading from I-40 to US 66, and the area between I-40 and US 66.
Last month, while introducing draconian amendments to sections of the Chicago code and a wholesale rewrite of the parade permit ordinance, he in effect said, "Don't worry, this is just for those 'bad people' coming to Chicago to disrupt the G8 and NATO summits.
Now there is no avoiding it, though, as a partisan Democrat, I confess to being relieved that the dissenters did not prevail, for the upholding of the D.C. ordinance would, in effect, have served as a massive in-kind campaign contribution to John McCain.
Challenges to that state law were rebuffed until an appeals court ruled that the law couldn't be tested until local voters actually approved a wage ordinance; the court, in effect, ordered that the wage increase go to a vote.
The decision by Justice W. Denis Donovan of State Supreme Court in White Plains ensures that the ordinance will remain in effect, requiring dog walkers to carry photo identification cards and pay an annual fee of $50 per dog for residents of New Rochelle and $250 per dog for nonresidents.
A municipal smoke-free ordinance took effect in Pueblo, Colo., in 2003, and researchers tracked the incidence of heart attacks, comparing rates in the city with those in its surrounding county and a neighboring county where there were no smoking bans.
Under the ordinance, which had been in effect since at least the 1970's, many laborers were given summonses and fined.
"Beachwear manifesting religious affiliation in an ostentatious way, while France and its religious sites are currently the target of terrorist attacks, could create the risk of disturbances to public order," says the ordinance, which will be in effect through August — peak vacation season in southern France.
In August 1994, when as a City Councilwoman in New Rochelle I sponsored legislation limiting their use in the city, there were already ordinances of varying severity in effect in Scarsdale, Pelham, Larchmont and Mamaroneck, and under consideration in White Plains and Peekskill.
