New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg vowed on Monday to appeal a judge’s ruling that struck down his pioneering ban on large sugary drinks sold by the city’s restaurants, movie theaters and other food service businesses just a day before it was to take effect. The judge called the ban “arbitrary and capricious” in an [...]
Cambridge, MA, Follows NYC and Considers Soda Ban
June 20, 2012 | Posted by
In a boost to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s efforts to prohibit the sale of large sugary drinks, the mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has asked that city’s health officials to study the implementation of its own ban on large sodas to curb obesity. Henrietta Davis, mayor of Cambridge, a medium-sized politically liberal city that [...]
