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    The handwriting’s on the wall: Cities can win the graffiti war

    Community involvement, a broad base of support and dogged persistence are among the ingredients that make for a successful graffiti-fighting program.

    By Tom Black • March 1, 1997
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    Building your fleet To buy or not to buy? That is the question

    Many municipalities are taking a hard look at leasing as a way to replace aging fleet vehicles without breaking the bank. But while that practice is on the rise, buying is still the rule.

    By Tom Black • Jan. 1, 1997
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    URBAN REVITALIZATION/Livable City Initiative succeeds in New Haven

    Like many old cities in the industrial Northeast, New Haven, Conn., has suffered considerable population loss during the 1990s. An estimated 7,600 people left the city between 1990 and 1995, leaving it with a current population of about 122,000.

    Jan. 1, 1997
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    Houston neighborhoods program gets top honors

    In just four years, the neighborhoods to Standards program has galvanized Houston's inner-city neighborhoods, improving the quality of life by concentrating

    Dec. 1, 1996
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    Fungi help reduce transplant failures at the roots

    It is estimated that transplant failures of trees and other plantings in grounds and roadside projects cost city and county governments millions of dollars

    By Marx Donald • Oct. 1, 1996
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    City calls Mother Nature’s bluff with landslide project

    After a landslide destroyed several homes and closed a vital highway, the seaside town of Dana Point, Calif., led the two-year effort to rebuild and strengthen the collapsed bluff, reopen the road and safeguard the area’s coastal beauty.

    By Shapard Rob • Aug. 1, 1996
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    Eddy Tanaka: 1996 county leader of the year

    Eddy Tanaka needed a job in 1958. The Walnut Grove, Calif., native had a college degree and a two-year Army stint under his belt when he came to Los Angeles, looking to find work with a local business.

    By Shapard Rob • July 1, 1996
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    Vigilance and sound advice help spell relief from landfill gas

    Whether immediate problems, emissions regulations or a desire to plan ahead are the motivation for installing a landfill gas system, clearly defining

    By Shepard Rob • May 1, 1996
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    Products and services

    Accounting(*) AMERICAN FUNDWARE Flagship Co., 1385 S. Colorado Blvd., Ste. 400, Denver, CO 80222. (800) 551-4458; (303) 756-3030; FAX: (303) 756-3514.

    April 30, 1996
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    Taxpayers save with ambulance billing scheme

    Through an innovative method of filing claims directly with insurance carriers for ambulance service fees, the city of Plano (Texas) Fire Department has recouped approximately $850,000 for fiscal 1994-95 and projects to generate more than $1 million in revenue for FY 1995-96.

    Jan. 31, 1996
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    Sludge baggers work for small treatment plant

    Not many wastewater plants have to deal with too little sludge. But, when attempting to justify the purchase of sludge dewatering equipment, the Granville Township Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), Pa., faced exactly that problem.

    By Larry E. Craig • July 1, 1995
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    Aggressive policy helps turn Scranton around

    For years, Scranton, Pa.’s, Central Business District, always the city’s historical, commercial and retail hub, was riddled with vacant properties and a deteriorated infrastructure.

    June 1, 1995
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    75-year-old ordnance cleared from schoolyard

    A fireball that lit the skies around Morgan Depot on Oct. 4, 1918, is still haunting the residents of Midlesex County, N.J., today.

    By Sandy McAnally • March 1, 1995