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Gqeberha can become the electric vehicle hub of SA, read the headline of an article published in this newspaper on Wednesday.

The bills comes as Kansas City has lagged behind other cities across the country in how much it pays its chief and officers. The salary problems have been compounded by the city’s unusual lack of control of its police.

Missouri lawmakers present legislation that would bar schools from discriminating based on hair texture, dubbed the CROWN Act.

Despite significant infusions of public funding, transit has madevirtually no progress in reducing traffic congestion.

The Clinton Administration last week sent legislation to CapitolHill to create federal enterprise zones in depressed inner-city andrural communities.

Competition, Not Monopolies Can Improve Public Transit

Congress has the opportunity, over the next year, to give tens ofthousands of America's most disadvantaged children a much brighterfuture.

A common and false allegation about urban life in America is thatconditions in poor neighborhoods "force" residents into a life ofcrime.

To stand somewhere in the center of an East Asian metropolis, Seoul, say, or Guangzhou, is to face an odd cultural conundrum. Little of what you see, apart from the writing on billboards, can be described as traditionally Asian. There are the faux-traditional façades—Japanese bamboo screens, golden Chinese dragons, Korean farmhouse walls—of certain restaurants providing local

HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros's bold plan to introduce the benefitsof market competition into the troubled public housing industry hasbeen stymied in Congress by an alliance of moderate Republicans andliberal Democrats.