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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...
Indianapolis is hardly alone among cities that have been quietly putting the fashionable buzz words "reinventing government" into practice. Municipal government has long been regarded as the great back-water of American democracy: a world of political patronage and special-interest jockeying in which policy discussions rarely move beyond synchronizing...
A prime article of faith among the new mayors is that city employees must become more efficient. Rendell, a Democrat and a tough-talking former prosecutor, is widely credited with saving Philadelphia by going eyeball-to-eyeball with the city's powerful public-employee unions shortly after he took office...
Sex, both municipal and federal, made the news last week, but like car-chase scenes and new stock market highs, sex scandals don't automatically take the world by storm anymore. The reluctant entry of another woman into the Paula Jones case hardly created a ripple. And when speculation that...
Just when you thought it was O.K. to go back in the water, new studies raise questions about the safety of the chlorine used to purify everything from swimming pools to municipal drinking-water supplies.