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• Mayor Offers Plan for Philadelphia's 31 Shuttered Schools
• Aug. 29, 2013
• The Nutter administration on Wednesday announced a detailed, multifaceted plan to sell or find new uses for 31 of the School District of Philadelphia's closed school buildings.

• Mayors Meet with Obama to Discuss Youth Violence
• Aug. 28, 2013
• President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder met with a group of 18 mayors on Tuesday to discuss strategies to cut down on youth violence, the White House said.

• State Seeking to Finalize Detroit's Disputed Mayoral Election Today
• Aug. 27, 2013
• The state took over the job of verifying the Detroit primary results after the Wayne County Board of Canvassers last week refused to certify results prepared by the county clerk’s staff that differed greatly from unofficial results the city’s elections department compiled on election night.

• NYC Council Rejects Mayor’s Vetoes of Police Oversight Bills
• Aug. 23, 2013
• New York’s City Council created an inspector general to review police practices, overriding Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto and putting another check on the stop-and-frisk policy he championed as a crime-fighting tool.

• Bike-Share Program Coming to Philadelphia
• Aug. 23, 2013
• Sometime next summer or fall, Philadelphia expects to join New York, Boston, Chicago, and other major cities with a bike-sharing program that will enable registered users to pick up a bicycle at a station in one part of town, ride around, and drop off the bike at another station as easily as they would make the trip in a taxi - apart from the exercise.

• Why Some Cities Fail Despite State Intervention
• Aug. 22, 2013
• Camden, N.J., one of America's poorest cities, has received hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid to keep it going. Yet by most measures, it's still failing.

• Unions, Creditors Challenge Detroit's Right to Bankruptcy in Court
• Aug. 20, 2013
• Dozens of creditors, unions and retiree groups objected to Detroit’s eligibility to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, setting up a fierce legal battle today that will determine whether the city’s bankruptcy case can proceed.

• Rapid Rehousing: A New Way to Head Off Homelessness
• Aug. 19, 2013
• Officials in Washington and across the country are pushing rapid rehousing as the most promising way to help homeless families move out of shelters and motels and become self-sufficient.

• New Orleans' Dwindling Ferry Service
• Aug. 15, 2013
• Funding cutbacks have reduced both the number of ferries that cross the Mississippi River and the schedules of those that remain, leaving commuters with few options.

• Detroit Schools Start Door-to-Door Campaign to Win Back Students
• Aug. 14, 2013
• The competition for students has heated up in the past decade with Detroit parents enrolling in suburban districts that offer school choice programs while more charter schools offer more options.

• NYPD Wrongly Targeted Minorities, Judge Rules
• Aug. 13, 2013
• In a repudiation of a major element in the Bloomberg administration's crime-fighting legacy, a federal judge has found that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities in New York and called for a federal monitor to oversee broad reforms.

• Court Oversight Nothing New for NYPD
• Aug. 13, 2013
• Elsewhere across the country, a number of police departments have found themselves under federal court oversight, often in response to a broader range of alleged police misconduct than in the New York case.

• Judge Orders Cooling-Off Period to Prevent 2nd BART Strike
• Aug. 12, 2013
• After a brief but extraordinary weekend hearing, a San Francisco Superior Court judge Sunday morning ordered a 60-day cooling-off period to prevent a second damaging transit strike in the Bay Area.

• Are Police and Fire Department Mergers Catching On?
• Aug. 8, 2013
• As the cost of public safety continues to rise, some cities are thinking the once unthinkable: merging police and fire agencies into one.

• Detroit Mayoral Race: CEO, Sheriff Appear Headed for November Showdown
• Aug. 7, 2013
• In an uphill battle fought partly in court and partly in the neighborhoods of Detroit, former Detroit Medical Center CEO Mike Duggan appears to be headed for a showdown in November with Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon as both seasoned political figures vie to become the next mayor of Detroit.