Opinion

Unbuilt Cities

The result is a permanent mismatch between responsibility and authority: cities are blamed for failure but denied the tools to succeed. This imbalance explains why headline infrastructure projects ...
For some homeowners, the city’s backup plan is not much of a solution. Edward Johnson, who lives in northwest Houston, told ...
EXCLUSIVE: The SHIELD Act — Safeguarding Homeland Immigration Enforcement from Local Detention — would bar local police from arresting federal agents, a response to recent Democratic claims that state ...
Daniel Mulhall dismisses Dominic Green’s concern about a proposal to rename Dublin’s Herzog Park by noting that the city council “quickly withdrew that motion” after Irishmen criticized it (Letters, ...
Members sit around the horseshoe during a Dallas City Council meeting at Dallas City Hall in Dallas on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. The day before, a council committee meeting about homelessness ended ...
Chris Tye is our weekend evening anchor and political reporter at CBS News Chicago. Mayor Brandon Johnson and a group of aldermen pushing its own budget proposal on Monday did not appear to move any ...
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The sound of cars zipping along a nearby highway faded to a low hum as Christian Murphy made his way through a narrow trail in a long-neglected section of Bronx Park. Murphy, the ecology and education ...
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Monroe and West Monroe will be collecting old Christmas trees to be recycled after the holiday. The City of West Monroe will collect old Christmas trees at the old recycling ...
Opheli Garcia Lawler is a journalist with a decade of experience, half of which has been dedicated to covering the way we travel. From interviewing former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to ...
The city can be held liable for the “public nuisance” caused by a homeless camp in a Tucson neighborhood on the north side, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled. Bradford v. City of Tucson The ...
City birds might just have a harder life compared to country birds, and there’s one notorious reason why. In North America, scientists estimate that hundreds of millions to more than a billion birds ...