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• The Daily Report

  Sex, Coffee and Seattle

  Evan Miller | Tue, May 27th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: news, seattle, evan miller, the new argument, money, police, florida, video, laws, protests, employment, starbucks, coffee, friday, caffeine, oregon | 1

  It is an unfortunate truth that sex sells only because we buy it. With the women from the HBO hit series “Sex and the City” knowing this truth all too well, the relationship between sex and cities across the country has caused many to ask where to draw the line. The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports. 

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• Underpaid, Under-trained NYPD Officers Make Deadly Decisions

  Chanel Lee | Tue, Apr 29th, 2008 | City: Brooklyn | Tags: new york city, crime, brooklyn, police, color, queens, bloomberg, nypd, chanel lee, ruling, sean bell | 1

  Last Friday, Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered his highly anticipated verdict in the trial of three NYPD detectives accused of killing Sean Bell. Can Bell’s death and others like it be attributed to the fact that NYPD officers and patrolmen are underpaid and insufficiently trained? Next American City welcomes new guest columnist, Chanel Lee.

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• Headlines

  Hospitals’ suburban push, fundamentalist children, blue-collar hybrids, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Apr 10th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: transportation, headlines, downtown, construction, boston, china, oil, police, taxpayers, consumers, chinese, olympics, new york times, hybrids, sect | 0

  Hospitals’ stir fears, sect youths conditioned to deceive outsiders, Olympic torch relay switches route and more in today’s headlines.

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• Headlines

  More Olympic news, Stories from D.C., Florida HUD goes Local, Golf Sprawl, MORE

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Apr 7th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, building, headlines, downtown, cnn, chicago, china, police, paris, protests, sprawl, olympics, suburb, bob king, washington post, upenn, golf, university of penn | 0

  Tibetan protesters continue their focus on China’s olympic march, UPenn students win student urban design competition, Florida HUD returns to local control, Hispanics contribute $60 billion to the telecommunications industry ... this and more in today’s headlines.

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• Headlines

  Denver mortgage woes, L.A. mayor’s skid-row fiasco, Jackson’s portrait, MORE

  David Anderson | Wed, Apr 2nd, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: news, david anderson, headlines, downtown, crime, energy, foreclosure, homeless, atlanta, construction, mortgage, police, denver, alphonso jackson, dollar, churches, founder, skid row | 0

  Mortgage defaults force Denver exodus, protestors interrupt Los Angeles mayor at Skid Row announcement, a silent killer stalks world of urban farming, former HUD secretary Alphonso Jackson forgets to pack painted portrait on his way out and a developer’s mixed-use project pays homage to Savannah’s roots. This and more in today’s headlines.

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• Headlines

  Release of Clinton documents, Detroit mayorial scandal, Supreme Court discussion on guns, and more

  David Anderson | Wed, Mar 19th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hillary clinton, detroit, obama, david anderson, los angeles, economy, energy, oil, police, lobbyist, corruption, policemen, gun control, std, supreme court, fed, stocks, utah, st. louis | 0

  Notable excerpts of the day on the election, Supreme Court, stocks, energy, corruption, lobbyists, police, Utah’s STDs, and more from all over the country.

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• Headlines

  National parks 5-0, the Sesquipedalian spark of the Right, jailbirds, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Feb 28th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: meredith aska mcbride, democrats, police, austin, agribusiness, incarceration rate, park service, farm bill, the scourge of liberalism, one percent, sxsw, william f. buckley, jr. | 0

  Dems work to keep subsidies for agribusiness

  The negotiators agreed Tuesday to find $10 billion in extra money in a last-ditch effort to save the farm bill, once seen as an opportunity to reform commodity programs and divert scarce funds to conservation, nutrition, organic research and California fruit and vegetable growers who are locked out of the Depression-era programs. The money is needed to appease these interests while still maintaining the commodity subsidies. Yet in proposals…

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• The Daily Report

  Failures of the Public Participation Process

  Matt Stroud | Thu, Feb 14th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: police, suburb, missouri, city council, nate berg, political process, public participation, public opposition | 0

  Public participation turned ugly last week in suburban Missouri, where a man burst into a city council meeting and shot and killed two police officers and three city councilors. At least two others were injured by the gunman before he was fatally shot by police, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.

  The armed man was a frequent attendee at city council meetings in Kirkwood, Missouri, and he was known for being a very vocal critic of the council and the city’s mayor.…

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