City dwellers have every right to be afraid
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Comment is free: Nick Cohen: The idea that it's middle-class paranoia ignores the fact that lawlessness really is getting worse.
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By Christian Hill, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 25--There might be as many proposed solutions to downtown issues of loitering, panhandling and public safety as there are cities dealing with them.   There is "no magic bullet.
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By Sharif Durhams, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 8--An unsightly menace is gripping Concord. City Council members say they're ready to attack it.   It's front-yard parking.
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In the endless daily battle against the fear and isolation of life under lock-down, the people of Baghdad have found a way to keep their city alive: moving it online.
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Immigrants should be told not to touch people without permission, spit in the street or play loud music, the government says.
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Keeping others out is the whole point.
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What&#39;s wrong with this picture? The airspace over the city is declared off-limits to all unauthorized aircraft. Some 200 police, including rooftop snipers and antiterror
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New Yorkers pride themselves on their ability to handle almost anything: Blackouts. Sweltering subway stations. Obscenely small apartments at ridiculously high costs.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg brought his message against terror to a town shaken by persistent attacks from Palestinian militants.
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"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see - germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages."
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Paris was remarkably free of barricades as the government encroached on the liberty of the French to smoke themselves to death
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New Yorkers are growing complacent   about safety and evacuation planning and training is the key to   the city combating another September 11-style attack or natural   disaster, experts said on Wednesday.
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In the heart of the city, it's not easy to be a winner. Crime, drugs, and an atmosphere of failure, accentuated by the fumes from MBTA buses and urban redevelopment projects, make it easy, and some argue excusable, to not be the best you can be.
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Even as the world's urban population explodes, many cities face potential extinction.
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With their lush green hedges, sturdy semis and well-tended gardens, the suburbs have long been seen as a sanctuary from the stresses of city living.
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By Venice Buhain, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 19--OLYMPIA -- No-panhandling zones and anti-loitering laws would make downtown less threatening, two Olympia City Councilmen told the council Monday night.
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It's not like anyone from a decaying neighborhood east of downtown is harboring illusions that the place is crime-free. But the discovery of six bodies has raised fears that a serial killer is preying on the area, which one activist calls the most decrepit in the city.