Search results for

A Peoria business owner says he will rebuild a statue on the city’s South Side dedicated to those who lost their lives to violence. UFS Downtown Outlet...

Bloomington City Manager Tim Gleason has announced a five-member committee will assist him in his search for a new police chief.Clay Wheeler retired as…

Officials in the German city are offering a million Euros if you can prove the town does not exist. There's this long-running online conspiracy theory that the city is an illusion.

The Peoria city council tonight will consider a new contract with Peoria Disposal Company that could bring back every-other-week pickup of recyclables...

Danny talks with Willie Morris about his book, MY DOG SKIP (Vintage Books), a memoir of growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi in the 1940's. Always by little Willie's side was Skip, an English smooth-haired fox terrier. Skip was a special dog: With a little help from his master, Skip could drive a car or play football - he could even pick up supplies at the grocery store. Willie Morris now lives in Jackson, Mississippi (about 40 miles from Yazoo City). He is the author of two novels, and the memoirs NORTH TOWARD HOME and NEW YORK DAYS.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports that New York City refuses to back down in its standoff with foreign diplomats over the issue of illegal parking and unpaid tickets. The city has implemented new parking guidelines under which UN diplomats must pay their tickets within a year or lose their diplomatic license plates. A UN committee has given the State Department a week to resolve those parts of the new guidelines which it considers unacceptable. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says the new rules do not violate international law and that the State Department should not be intimidated.

The Supreme Court is considering whether to relax its barriers to some public aid for parochial schools. Today's cases involve federally-funded remedial classes taught by public school teachers for low-income students, regardless of what schools they attend. Twelve years ago, the court ruled that, to maintain the separation of church and state, the classes for parochial school students had to be taught outside their school buildings. The classes often take place in mobile classrooms parked outside the schools. New York City is arguing that this system places an unfair financial burden on the city, and the Clinton administration is backing the city's position. The court's ruling might also have an impact on school prayer and tuition voucher cases. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

For years, large supermarkets have been shut out of New York city due to zoning laws designed to keep manufacturing jobs from leaving the city. Now, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani wants to change that, saying New Yorkers should have the choice and cheaper prices offered by larger food stores. But as Gene Bryan Johnson of member station WNYC reports, many New Yorkers fear large supermarkets bring too much traffic into close-knit neighborhoods, and that they will kill off small local businesses.

In the second of five reports on child welfare, NPR's Brian Naylor examines the condition of child protective services in New York City. Following the beating death of a six-year-old girl in 1995, New York made fundamental reforms in its child welfare system, and it became a successful model for municipalities in other states. Now, the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) is facing criticism and caught in a budget crunch.

Susanna Capelouto of Peachstate Public Radio reports that Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell has proposed a new affirmative action program for his administration that he hopes will have an impact on the private sector. Under the current plan, a business getting a city contract has to share about a third of the contract with a company owned by women or minorities. Under his new plan, to be eligible for a city contract, a company must show that it is already using minority or women sub-contractors. The earlier plan faces a court challenge from a conservative legal group and the mayor expects them to challenge the new plan, too. Mayor Campbell has said he will do anything in his power to preserve affirmative action in Atlanta.