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A new generation of Baltimore residents is hoping to revive a hallowed Charm City tradition -- weekly scrubbing of the city's ubiquitious marble front steps. NPR's Neal Conan applies a little Bon Ami powder and a lot of elbow grease of his own.

Peter Aronson reports on growing opposition to the city of Nashville's plan to build a new sports facility. Opponents are trying to force city leaders to hold a referendum to decide the issue. The proposed stadium would be used to lure the Oilers football team away from Houston.

NPR's Cheryl Devall reports that, with a state-imposed deadline just a few weeks away, the city of Miami is having difficulty figuring out how to solve the city's fiscal crisis. One partial solution is raising the fees for garbage collection - an idea that the mayor is rejecting.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports from Atlanta on a group of high school students who travelled to that city after being promised work and housing at the Olympic games. Once they got there, they found neither, and now city officials are trying to figure out how to send them home.

Liane speaks with NPR's Michael Skoler in Kinshasha, Zaire. The country's third largest city, Kisangani, was captured yesterday by Zairean rebels with hardly a fight from Zaire's army. The loss of Kisangani, a strategically significant city, is a stunning defeat to Zaire's crumbling government.

Daniel talks with 22 year old Elton Harito, an Albanian student living near the center of downtown Tirana, about daily life in the city in the wake of the country's recent upheaval. Harito says that during the day the city is calm - but the evenings are filled with gunfire.

Last month, Philadelphia closed its homeless shelters to single adults. Linda talks with William Parshall, the Deputy Managing Director for Special Needs Housing for the City of Philadelphia, about the rationale behind the decision, and what this restriction has meant for the city and its homeless population.

- Daniel talks with Harry Jaffe, national editor of Washingtonian magazine about the financially troubled city of Washington, DC. Jaffe says that Congress has unfairly limited the city's ability to raise much needed revenue. He also says the level of incompetence in the local District government is severe.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London where the city is bracing for more fuel price protests. Truck drivers and farmers across Britain are threatening to blockade the city if a cut in the fuel tax isn't announced.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Israeli city of Hebron, one of the areas most effected by the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In an effort to protect the city's Jewish settlers, the army has imposed a 24-hour-a-day curfew on its Palestinian citizens.