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Three Orange County housing workers arrived last Tuesday at the home of Tommy and Mae Rose Owens in Winter Park, Fla., a suburb of Orlando, to complete paperwork on the couple's federal loan for home improvement. But the Owenses were not there. Neither were the house and the...
Jerusalem's administration is taking great pains to appease the Orthodox. Plans for a new and larger municipal stadium have been scrapped because the best site was near an Orthodox community -and its inhabitants abhor Sabbath soccer. A bypass has been built around the Kiryat Zanz district in the...
Scandals stud the history of the 2 million-member union, which represents not only some 1 million truckers and warehousemen but also hospital and brewery workers, food industry laborers, police and other municipal employees, and workers in many other occupations. In the 1950s the Teamsters were often linked to labor...
Under the plan, revenue from the television fee would be used to fund "vital municipal services," which are currently threatened due to the effects of Proposition 2 1/2.
St. Louis' story is a familiar one among older U.S. urban areas: dwindling population, shrinking tax base, deteriorating municipal services. Yet this story began, oddly enough, more than a century ago. In 1876 residents voted to secede from the surrounding territory, now St. Louis County, because they did not...