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More and more city officials are discovering that it can cost some 15% less to hire a private garbage contractor than to run their own frequently featherbedded sanitation system. The city of Middletown, Ohio, for example, recently signed a threeyear, $1,000,000 contract with a private collection firm that...
The 80,000 people of Canarsie are 95% white, mostly Italians who started settling when this was still a marshland lit by the glow of municipal trash fires, and then Jews who moved in to escape the increasing number of blacks in adjoining Brownsville. They are mostly working and lower...
Christmas Gift. In some wealthy suburbs, where the need for services and facilities is slight, revenue-sharing cash will build swimming pools and tennis courts. Edina, Minn., will use part of its $160,000 to carve out bicycle paths. Less affluent North Little Rock, Ark., is badly in need of...
His Democratic opponent, Daniel Walker, 50, is a handsomely graying father of seven who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy but altered course to a prosperous corporate law career. Walker became famous-infamous in Chicago municipal circles-for a 1968 report which blamed the disorders during the 1968 Democratic Convention...
Clout. It may be on the local level that self-interested money most distorts the democratic process, partly because a large contribution carries more clout there. A lawyer contributes to a district attorney's re-election because the D.A. can dismiss cases defended by his legal friends. Textbook suppliers seek...