Gang tax shelved

Minutes after the City Council voted Tuesday to put a telephone users' tax on the February ballot, Councilwoman Janice Hahn pulled her proposal for a $40 a year parcel tax to fund gang-prevention programs. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

Despite championing the anti-gang tax for months, Hahn said the telephone tax - worth about $270 million a year - is more important to pass sooner than her proposed tax for intervention programs.

She's now aiming to put the anti-gang tax on the November 2008 ballot.