State And Local

California High-Speed Rail

Publication Date: November 18, 2010

In January 2010, the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) was waiting to hear whether the Obama Administration would approve its application for $4.7 billion in federal stimulus funding to begin the construction of a $50-billion,...

Electric Vehicles in Cities

Publication Date: August 26, 2010

In 2010, San Francisco was an affiliate of the Large City Climate Leadership Group, an association of major cities around the world that recognized that climate change required global action but were not waiting for others to act. Many of these...

Taking a Therapeutic Approach to Juvenile Offenders: The "Missouri Model"

Publication Date: May 14, 2009

In the early 1970s, the Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) took its first steps toward radically changing the way it dealt with youthful offenders remanded to its custody. For years, like most states, it had incarcerated juveniles...

Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (Epilogue)

Publication Date: February 06, 2009

On one side, a loose network of protesters made arrangements for dramatizing their opposition to the WTO and international trade practices. At the same time, public safety officials from local, state, and federal agencies developed security...

Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999

Publication Date: February 06, 2009

On one side, a loose network of protesters made arrangements for dramatizing their opposition to the WTO and international trade practices. At the same time, public safety officials from local, state, and federal agencies developed security...

Rudy Giuliani: The Man and His Moment

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

In the hours and days following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which destroyed New York's World Trade Center towers, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani distinguished himself, in the view of many, for his style of leadership. A combination...

Winning Hearts and Minds: Reforming the Providence School District (B)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In August, 2002, Melody Johnson, the deputy superintendent of the Providence, Rhode Island School District, was hastily appointed acting superintendent in the wake of the resignation of her predecessor and close colleague Diana Lam. Lam and...

Winning Hearts and Minds: Reforming the Providence School District (A)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In August 2002, Melody Johnson, the deputy superintendent of the Providence, Rhode Island School District, was hastily appointed acting superintendent in the wake of the resignation of her predecessor and close colleague Diana Lam. Lam and...

DART's Suburban Service

Publication Date: March 01, 2003

In the spring of 2000, planners at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), the regional public transit agency serving the Dallas metropolitan area, had to decide whether to cancel or modify a poorly performing bus route serving the suburban cities of...

The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry: The Fowler Avenue Land Problem (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 30, 2001

When the fast-growing Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida finds out that a key, privately-owned parcel of land adjoining its "campus" is up for sale, it moves quickly--but unsuccessfully--to convince the owner to sell the land...

The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry: The Fowler Avenue Land Problem

Publication Date: October 30, 2001

When the fast-growing Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida finds out that a key, privately-owned parcel of land adjoining its "campus" is up for sale, it moves quickly--but unsuccessfully--to convince the owner to sell the land...

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...