State And Local

Hurricane Katrina: The Looming Storm (Abridged) (B)

Publication Date: April 10, 2008

On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, meteorologists in the US National Weather Service spotted a tropical depression in the southeastern Bahamas. As it strengthened into a tropical storm, weather officials gave it a name, Katrina, and closely tracked it...

Hurricane Katrina: Preparing for “The Big One” in New Orleans (Abridged) (A)

Publication Date: April 10, 2008

On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, meteorologists in the US National Weather Service spotted a tropical depression in the southeastern Bahamas. As it strengthened into a tropical storm, weather officials gave it a name, Katrina, and closely tracked it...

Pacesetter, Riverdale, and the Illinois Campaign for Affordable Housing (Epilogue)

Publication Date: February 28, 2008

Zenovia Evans, mayor of the small Chicago suburb of Riverdale, was determined to save the subdivision of Pacesetter which had once been her home. As part of her efforts to save the deteriorating neighborhood, Mayor Evans joined a wide-ranging...

Pacesetter, Riverdale, and the Illinois Campaign for Affordable Housing

Publication Date: February 28, 2008

Zenovia Evans, mayor of the small Chicago suburb of Riverdale, was determined to save the subdivision of Pacesetter which had once been her home. As part of her efforts to save the deteriorating neighborhood, Mayor Evans joined a wide-ranging...

The Good Commissioner (B)

Publication Date: December 14, 2007

A high-ranking district administrator in India, upon taking office, is informed that his predecessor agreed to acquire a plot of land for a local jail. When he learns that the landowner is the wife of an influential local politician, he becomes...

The Good Commissioner (A)

Publication Date: December 14, 2007

A high-ranking district administrator in India, upon taking office, is informed that his predecessor agreed to acquire a plot of land for a local jail. When he learns that the landowner is the wife of an influential local politician, he becomes...

Revisiting Gang Violence in Boston

Publication Date: November 15, 2007

On the night of November 28, 2006, Reverend Jeffrey Brown, a Baptist minister and co-founder of the Ten Point Coalition in Boston, Massachusetts, received bad news: 20-year-old Jahmol Norfleet, a leader in one of Boston's warring gangs, had been...

Parking in San Francisco

Publication Date: August 31, 2007

In 2006 planners in the City and County of San Francisco were promoting an overhaul of the city's parking policy that they claimed would correct unfair and unwise subsidies for automobile users.  The effort was designed to allow market...

Leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Publication Date: August 31, 2007

In June 2007, the governor of Pennsylvania was negotiating with the states legislative leaders about his proposal to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to private investors. Leasing public highways to private companies was unheard of in the United...

Plans versus Politics: New Orleans after Katrina (Sequel)

Publication Date: May 31, 2007

This sequel accompanies the main case (1862.0). On Tuesday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans, causing inadequate levees to collapse and flood the city in what came to be widely seen as a man-made disaster. The Federal...

Plans versus Politics: New Orleans after Katrina

Publication Date: May 31, 2007

On Tuesday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans, causing inadequate levees to collapse and flood the city in what came to be widely seen as a man-made disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) calculated that...

Health Care & the Isolated Poor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: The Quest to Make a Lasting Change (Sequel)

Publication Date: December 14, 2006

The spring of 2005 marked a tricky juncture for the leaders of a program designed to improve health care access for thousands of residents living in impoverished, isolated settlements just north of the Mexican border in the Lower Rio Grande...