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And here's the curious thing: None of the almost 6,000 Montfort residents (out of a total population of 6,500) who have demanded the Malians' return dispute the fact that those arrested had been in France illegally, some of them using forged identity papers and work permits. They...
There have been missteps. Giuliani's push to have former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik of Giuliani Partners nominated for Secretary of Homeland Security was a fiasco. Investigators quickly turned up some undisclosed financial favors done for Kerik by a company seeking municipal contracts. But in general, business...
France is the land of public service par excellence, where a whiff of sacrilege still adheres to the very notion of privatizing basic infrastructure. Trains, hospitals, universities and pensions are all largely state provisions. But water--a sector that remains a function of municipal government in 90% of U.S. cities...
Water is a monumental opportunity. JPMorgan estimated the world municipal water and wastewater business in 2005 at $465 billion a year; by 2015, it figures, it will have almost tripled to $1.2 trillion. Some 40% of the world's population does not have adequate water and sewer systems, according to...
Suez and Veolia work on the principle that as private companies with broad expertise, they can channel that investment more efficiently than municipal waterworks can. And since it's not they but the owners of the pipes that pony up the money for investment (usually by issuing municipal bonds), these...