Cities that want to regulate newsracks are finding they must tread carefully.

Amid the cedar-covered hills of Austin, Texas, you will find the corporate campuses of companies such as Dell Computer, Motorola and IBM. You will also find wild hogs.

Up in the mountains of Montana, just south of Missoula, leaders of Ravalli County may occasionally have dispensed with administrative formalities. Sometimes, governing is still stunningly casual in small, rural places.

In San Francisco, it appears as though political correctness might be going to the dogs--and cats.

If you offer a tax rebate, they will come--if they know about it and have enough time to fill out the form.