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Northampton MA: Panhandling law is part of effort to sanitize the city

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Panhandling law is part of effort to sanitize the city By Daily Hampshire Gazette- Northampton, MA Created 12/11/2008 To the editor: If the city is seeking a solution to what some view as troublesome behavior by a handful of panhandlers - I have heard the number to be less than five - then why is the response an ordinance drafted by the police at the behest of the Office of Economic Development with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and some downtown merchants? I view the proposed anti-panhandling ordinance as an effort by the city, acting on behalf of some in the business community, to make Northampton a place where tourists and shoppers can visit and shop unencumbered by anyone they view as disturbing. I see the ordinance as a part of an ongoing process by the mayor and others in city government to sanitize Northampton through the building of the so-called "garden" hotel in Pulaski Park and the creation of a Business Improvement District...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).