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For the mayors of many U.S. cities in this hot summer, the threat of ghetto riots is less of a worry than a newer danger: bankruptcy. At the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Boston last week, San Francisco's Joseph Alioto warned some 350 anxious municipal chiefs, "The...
But the mayors got no encouragement on these two measures from the Ford Administration. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carla Hills and Transportation Secretary William Coleman told them to look to their own municipal resources. Said Hills: "The crisis of the cities will not be solved by making their deficits...
The mayors had no more success in finding ways to deal with what some of them called a ticking time bomb: the growing power and aggressiveness of government workers' unions. Some have the power both to paralyze cities and to block the re-election of any local officials who...
Brinkmanship finally produced a compromise that all sides felt they could live with. A new agency, the Municipal Assistance Corporation ("Big Mac"), was created to restore the city's credit and to monitor its budget and borrowing practices. Because five of its voting members are appointed by the Governor...
The first tee is filled with foursomes; on the practice green, more players stand poised over putts. The game may be golf, but it bears scant resemblance to the pastime of the country-club set. The scene is Detroit's Palmer Park Municipal Golf Course, and among its players...