April 2001
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Cities are fighting against the liquor ads plastered all over inner-
city neighborhoods. It's a hard battle to win, but some of them are
winning.
America's worst public housing projects are being fixed up, and many
of them look pretty good. There's just one puzzling question: Where
did the old tenants go?
Mississippi's House speaker found he couldn't run the place the old-
fashioned way. So he invented a better way.
Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley is tracking performance on a scale
never seen before in local government. He wants change, in a hurry.
Homeowner associations are an increasingly prevalent--and troubled--
form of local government.
