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Auto repair is only one of more than 70 municipal operations Indianapolis' Republican Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, the nation's leading exponent of "competing out," has spun off in five years in office. The city's wastewater-treatment plants are being run by a private company, at a projected savings of $65 million over five years. Indianapolis International Airport is now run by the British Airport Authority, which promises it will save $32 million over 10 years. Goldsmith even managed to privatize Indianapolis' 2,200-job Naval Air Warfare Center, which had landed on the Pentagon's base-closing list. With...
...became the first major city to default on its debts since the Great Depression. Along the way, city government all but stopped providing basic services. Building on improvements made by his predecessors in city hall, White has helped reverse Cleveland's slide. The hard-driving mayor, who gets to city hall before 7:30 a.m. and sometimes works past midnight, has adopted a business style of city management. "We serve a city of 500,000 people a day," says White. "If we don't serve them well, a lot of them are going to go somewhere else." The centerpiece...
...mess. The wizards at city hall inflamed the situation by sending out battalions of police in riot gear. They arrested more than 100 cyclists, including some peaceable ones who were just trying to point out that the city needs more bike lanes; their bikes were confiscated. The normally unflappable Mayor Willie Brown, a world-class deal broker, seemed ready to snap. Critical Mass, a leaderless mob that refers to itself as an idea rather than an organization (and has manifestations in a dozen other cities), had got his goat by having no one for him to cut a deal with...
Here's a better plan: San Francisco loves to congratulate itself on how progressive it is, so how about if Mayor Brown brokers a deal to address one of the great transit insanities of the universe? It costs $1 round trip to drive into San Francisco and back on the Bay Bridge but $4 and up to take Bay Area Rapid Transit. Beginning next week, every car that crosses the bridge with a lone driver should be charged $4; with two people in the car, $3; with three people, $2; and with four people, $1. With less traffic, a bridge...
What is all the fuss about democracy and Mexico City's newly elected mayor, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas [WORLD, July 21]? Although he is a member of the center-left Democratic Revolution Party (P.R.D.), people should look at his record while he was governor of the state of Michoacan and belonged to the long-ruling authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). The younger generation in Mexico had better examine this old "dinosaur" carefully. He is a castoff, passed over and recycled. JAY COBB Eaton, Ohio...