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Bloomington City Manager Tim Gleason estimates the price tag for a new downtown streetscape at $25-30 million. That's not to say anything like that has been decided, but now that the O'Neil Pool Project and the Bloomington Public Library expansion are under way, Gleason said it's time to pay a lot more attention to the city's core.

One of the wrinkles in the downtown Bloomington Tax Increment Financing District the city council has just created is that if it doesn't perform, half the property tax money generated will go back to taxing bodies like Bloomington schools.

San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie speaks with A Martinez about the city's top issues and his plans to curb homelessness.

It bills itself as a "world-class African city" but these days residents say it's anything but — with the collapse of the water system and frequent power outages.

Workers in Las Vegas have been watching automation and technology inch into their workplace. Now with AI, the city is preparing to adapt its service-heavy tourism economy.

SCOTT SIMON VISITS CLEVELAND, OHIO, WHERE FOR YEARS COMEDIANS AND THEIR ILK HAVE DELIGHTED IN MAKING FUN OF THE RUSTBELT CITY. BUT RECENTLY THE CITY HAS UNDERGONE A FACELIFT. SCOTT SIMON TALKS TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK THERE TO FIND OUT WHAT TODAY'S CLEVELAND IS ALL ABOUT.

Daniel talks with NPR's Cheryl Devall in Oklahoma City, Don Gonyea in Detroit and Martha Raddatz in Washington D.C. They discuss the memorial service held today at the Oklahoma State Fair Arena attended by many people including the Clintons and the Reverend Billy what happend today in the aftermath of the bombing in Oklahoma City.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NEW YORK CITY HISTORIAN CHRISTOPHER GRA ABOUT THE UNSOLVED BOMBING THAT OCCURRED ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1920 IN THE WALL STREET AREA OF LOWER MANHATTAN THAT, UP UNTIL THE DEADLY BOMBING THIS WEEK IN OKLAHOMA CITY, HAD BEEN CONSIDERED THE DEADLIEST SINGLE ATTACK IN THE UNITED STATES.

Daniel talks to James Rupert, a reporter for the Washington Post who has been travelling to the Chechen capital of Grozny. Rupert says that most of the people left living in the city are old. The young people have the money to flee to the countryside, but the stste pensions of the old people have been cut off and they have no way to get out of the city.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on the continuing protests in Philadelphia this week during the Republican National Convention. On the first day of the convention, thousands of protesters wound their way along city streets to the convention site. Few arrests were made and city police say they would accommodate the protesters as long as they remained non-violent. (5:05