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Partnership and Privatization |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--SOLVING AMERICA'S URBAN CRISIS |
| Author: Peter MacDonald |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,315 Words, 14,778 Characters |
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Two Democratic governors--Pennsylvania's Robert Casey and Maryland's William Donald Schaefer--are quite angry about big city demands for more state dollars, but for entirely different reasons.
Casey, who was elected in part because of his antagonism toward Philadelphia, makes it clear that the cash-strapped city's tumble toward bankruptcy is not his problem. Says Casey, "[Philadelphia] will not get a blank check from this state. Nobody in Harrisburg is going to bail out that city." Blank check? Philadelphia cannot even get a signed check these days. Pennsylvania is so tightfisted, it won't even pay Philadelphia's court system costs even though, legally, it is the state's responsibility--as the city recently proved in court.
Meanwhile, Schaefer--Baltimore's former mayor and architect of its acclaimed Harbor Place--is reportedly still unhappy that the legislature rejected his tax restructuring plan, which would have channeled millions more to Baltimore. The local media have portrayed Schaefer as so emotional about this setback, as well as others, that it has become a popular pastime to question his fitness for office. Schaefer supporters, many of them Baltimoreans, recently awarded him a pair of shiny red boxing gloves in honor of his fighting spirit.
Casey's disdain for Philadelphia and Schaefer's passion for Baltimore are striking studies in contrast, as well as potent symbols of one city on a downhill slide and another bracing itself f...
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...partnerships, city-county government, neighborhood organizations, even a civic league;
·Strategic, long-term planning that devises and implements strategies to improve a community's competitiveness in the marketplace for investment and employment growth; and ·Regional or intercommunity cooperation in tackling shared problems like pollution and common services like transportation.
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