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"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes," Charles Dudley Warner wrote 110 years ago. True then. True now. Never mind the grass, the trees, the shrubs, the vegetable gardens. What nourishes the municipal body is a bountiful tax harvest. But wait: Hartford, Conn., is raising a preposterous, or...
White-Collar Crime. At first the Senate bill contained several measures making companies and executives more vulnerable to criminal law. For example, one provision was that officials could be tried for "reckless endangerment" if, say, their firm dumped harmful chemicals into a river feeding a municipal water supply. But business...
Sullivan warned last night, however, that contract negotiation between the city and municipal employees who are demanding raises as high as 30 per cent, would probably send the budget above the reap. Two-thirds of the City Council must approve the budget if it exceeds the cap.
Koch denounced the settlement as too costly. "The city won the battle in the streets," he said. "The M.T.A. lost it at the bargaining table." He fears that the municipal unions-firemen, police, sanitation men and teachers-will make even greater demands of the hard-pressed city when they begin...
Sullivan, in his preamble to the budget, said, "It is virtually impossible to maintain the level of municipal services and stay within the 4-per-cent cap."