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...surprising number of other U.S. cities have come to the same conclusion, reversing the trend that created thousands of middle schools in the 1970s and '80s. Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minn.; Philadelphia; Memphis, Tenn.; and Baltimore, Md., are in various stages of reconfiguring their schools away from the middle school model and toward K-8s. Some suburban districts, including the wealthy Capistrano School District in Orange County, Calif., are also making the switch...
What about other mayors? A Notebook survey found that the mayors of Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia and New Orleans do not have listed phone numbers. But Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, elected to the city council in 1983, has kept his number listed ever since. The mayors of Minneapolis, Minn., and San Antonio, Texas, can be found in the phone book, and so can the top executives of smaller towns like Topeka, Kans., and Fargo, N.D. If you ring Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, you just may get her mother, Ruth White, who calmly refers irate callers to city hall. Says White...
...control freaks to the hourly workers who no longer have to punch the clock. Entire departments join at once, so that no single employee is left out and made to feel less dedicated. Thus far, nearly half the 3,500 employees at Best Buy's headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn., are part of the effort. Each group finds a different way to keep flexibility from turning into chaos. The public relations team got pagers to make sure someone was always available in an emergency. Janssen got software that turns voice mail into e-mail files accessible from anywhere, making it easier...
This scene is being replayed often throughout the Plains as a fast-growing band of land-granting imitators has taken root from La Villa, Texas, to Chugwater, Wyo., to New Richland, Minn. Dozens of towns have some version of a land giveaway, and dozens more are considering it. "The giveaways worked once, after the Civil War," says David Darling, an expert in rural affairs at Kansas State University. "They have potential to work again...
...first real success was scored by Hendrum, Minn., less than 30 miles from Fargo, N.D. Since launching its land giveaway in 1994, Hendrum has added 18 homes--not exactly a boom but the first construction in at least a decade. "It has brought a lot to our town," says John Kolness, head of the local economic-development authority. Land values are rising, he says, and Main Street is picking up. The population decline has slowed significantly, and the town still offers free land to folks who will build...