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...Cincinnati Post & Times-Star Reporter Charles Rentrop can more than keep up with his youngest competitor. He has been covering city hall since 1944, and there are those who claim he is the most influential man in the building. At meetings of the city council, he sits beside the mayor; and when the mayor is confused about something, Rentrop straightens him out. With an unfailing memory for names, dates and bills, Rentrop often corrects the council in debate, objecting that some proposal has already been enacted or is patently illegal. In the paper's city room, the only complaint...
...even Charlie Rentrop cannot keep up with the flood of news in today's big city. For all his versatility, Rentrop's kind of one-man coverage of city hall is fast disappearing. The Post & Times-Star now assigns additional reporters to cover city news, and papers elsewhere are enlarging their staffs to cope with increasing urban change: soaring population, urban sprawl, federal programs that touch all aspects of city life. "Before, you could just sit in the mayor's office and find out all you needed to know," says Wayne Whitt, the Nashville Tennessean...
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