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The Bloomington City Council will consider looking into improving traffic flow throughout the city. One system helps emergency vehicles, snow plows, and…

where the city is banking on a new high-tech traffic management system to help ease the Olympian sized strain that's expected to be put on the city's roadways for the next few weeks. Atlanta officials hope a network of highway cameras and computers will help manage the traffic swell.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that this morning's commute went smoother than expected. Today was the first day the city tested out their traffic plan, and the city's notorious freeways weren't too bad. MARTA, the mass transit system had some commuters grumbling, but the crowds didn't approach the gargantuan size of those over the weekend th clogged the subway system.

NPR's David Welna reports from Mexico City that historical tensions between the Catholic Church and the Mexican government have flared anew in the wake of a homily by the archbishop of Mexico City in which he asserted the church's right to speak out against government corruption and human right's abuses.

the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago over Meigs Field, a small airport located along Lake Michigan. Under the compromise announced yesterday, the State will continue to operate the airport for five years, after which the City will be allowed to use the land for whatever purpose it wants.

The city of Youngstown, Ohio has an unusually long history with organized crime. Julie Grant from member station WKSU reports that city leaders are going to great lengths latest attempt to fight the problem, literally. They've turned to Palermo, Italy to learn strategies for beating the mob.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports from San Francisco on what could be a new era for the city's two newspapers. The Chronicle and The Examiner are long time rivals, with one paper focused on the region and the other on the city. Now, after a bitter anti-trust case, the two newspapers are merging under new ownership.

British troops exchange artillery fire with Iraqi militia forces near the southern city of Basra, amid reports of a possible uprising against the Iraqi government in the country's second-largest city. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports that while security remains an issue in the southern port city of Basra in Iraq, the real issue for the city's million residents is water. A month after the war in Iraq began, there still is no running water in Basra and what fresh water there is is being trucked in to be distributed, by the bucket, by British Marines.

Some Iraqis are trying to find their own place in a new government, whether the United States approves or not. In the city of Kut southeast of Baghdad, a local tribal leader has occupied city hall in defiance of U-S Marines. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.