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...people, from 24 before Katrina, and it really needs 65, according to the American Planning Association. And the imperative to rebuild the wetlands that protect against storms, much discussed in the weeks after Katrina and just as important as the levees, gets less attention every day. Worst of all, Mayor Ray Nagin and the city council are still not talking honestly about the fact that New Orleans will have to occupy a much smaller footprint in the future. It simply can't provide city services across its old boundaries, and its old boundaries cannot realistically be defended against a major...
...million Amount pledged last week by New York City's billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, to fund the new Worldwide Stop Smoking Initiative...
...saved me," he says, pointing toward his childhood pals blitzing the suburban street in Coventry. "We were a tribe. Their parents took me in. I only made it out because of them." He went on to manage an investment bank and then came home to Cranston, R.I., ran for mayor and helped save the city from bankruptcy by challenging the local public employees' unions but also by raising taxes, a heresy overlooked by his sponsors at the Club for Growth. He has, belatedly, pledged not to raise taxes if elected to the Senate...
...terms of the new contract, the result of a one-year extension is that the debate over a long-term extension of Fowler-Finn’s tenure will likely be replayed next summer, a few months before an election in which the School Committee members and the mayor are all up for reelection...
...keen observer of the living-wage battle has been David Coss, mayor of Santa Fe, N.M., which mandated a living wage in 2004. "We were also told the sky was going to fall," he says, "but all we've seen is strong growth." With the city's $9.50 wage floor set to rise to $10.50 in 2008, Target and Sam's Club are thriving. Wal-Mart is even building a superstore. "You're going to see more and more municipalities taking matters into their own hands," Coss says. "Poverty just isn't a necessary ingredient for economic development...