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Protesters tell Pa. officials not to bus homeless out of town
June 7, 2023 1:43PM ET
Charles Fox/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS
PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of a controversy about how Norristown, Pennsylvania, officials are treating people in homeless encampments, a small and quiet group of protesters gathered at a borough council meeting Tuesday night. Some of them, subdued but pointed, were critical of Council President Thomas Lepera, who has told people he'd planned to bus individuals living homeless to Villanova University. The campus is the workplace of an anti-homelessness faculty member who said Lepera had cursed and castigated her during a brief meeting in late May to discuss some 20 encampments in Norristown. Le...