City Lit: A Tale Of Three Cities

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A book review of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities, by Janet L. Abu-Lughod, University of Minnesota Press, 580 pages, $39.95.

After-School Gymnastics

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Governor Pataki has included plenty of social service cuts in his proposed budget, but an increase to an education program has Democrats just as miffed.

Neighborhoods

THE GRAMM REAPER

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The House’s tweaks to the Community Reinvestment Act are bad news to activists, but Sen. Phil Gramm’s proposed changes go even further.

Actions, Lights, Camera

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Don’t worry. That guy with a video camera who you may have seen carefully recording local protests isn’t with the FBI.

He’s a drama critic.

ROCKEFELLER MANSION LOVE-IN

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They haven’t announced any specific plans yet, but a wide-ranging group meeting upstate has found more common ground on brownfields than most thought possible.

Government

LOAN DANGER

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If Senator Al D’Amato loses the election in September, the new chair of the banking committee will be Phil Gramm, no friend of the Community Reinvestment Act.

Choose and Lose

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Giving students the right to choose their high school is a goal shared by education reformers around the country. New York is already there. But without guidance or real information, many city students are making uninformed choices.