City Council To Improve Citizens’ Lives Again

Pop quiz: What laws, exactly, has City Council passed in the past, say, two years? If you’re like me, you can think of four:

• The smoking ban, banning smoking in all bars, except the ones that applied for a waiver, yet banning smoking at all outdoor cafes.
• The trans fat ban, giving the city’s restaurants a year or so to stop cooking with trans fats.
• The ban on blunt-style cigars and any other object that could be conceivably construed as marijuana paraphernalia. (This one was thrown out by the courts earlier this month.)
• And, finally, a law helping old ladies cross the street

Can you think of anything else? Not me. (Council overrode the mayor’s veto last week, but it was about pensions.)

Well, there’s a hot new law coming out of City Council, and you’re gonna love this one.

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