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The pioneer among the new pragmatists is Philadelphia mayor Edward Rendell, 50, a moderate Democrat. "No more whining that we don't get enough money from state capitals and from Washington," says the former prosecutor. "No more looking for the cavalry to bail us out." When he took the reins...
No budget item or entrenched interest group was spared Rendell's whittling, including the municipal unions. After a failed strike, the members accepted a 30-month pay freeze, cuts in health benefits and a reduction in time off that saved the city an estimated $93 million a year. An additional...
In Houston the municipal charter gives Robert Lanier more power than almost any other big-city mayor. Unlike Rendell, he has wide appointment powers and a vote on the city council. Still, the wealthy former banker and real estate developer shares the same manage-your-way-to-profits attitude. "When...
In Los Angeles, Richard Riordan has a different range of problems -- and a city that ranges over 466 sq. mi. and an even greater sprawl of bureaucracy. The former corporate lawyer has skirted, ignored and bucked the system ever since he won election in a bitterly fought campaign last June...
Senator Bob Packwood, the Oregon Republican, has long opposed limits on the tax subsidy but now says, "My mind is open." The rising cost of health care, he says, makes him wonder "whether we have encouraged, because of the tax code, too much health coverage . . . Cadillac coverage when we ought...