2007

• Campaign in the City: Boston Mayor Tom Menino

  December 14, 2007

  "Because Washington has no urban agenda, the cities in this country are doing poorly. Unemployment is up. Faith in the economy has gone down. Crime has gone up."

• Campaign in the City: Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy

  December 14, 2007

  "Our cities across this country are proud. They have a great history. But like a boxer, they've taken one knee, and they have to bring themselves back."

• Campaign in the City: Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon

  December 14, 2007

  "I want to see one of the candidates come up with a comprehensive plan to eliminate the tide of drugs coming into our country. I mean, we have wars here in our city."

• Campaign in the City: Miami Mayor Manny Diaz

  December 14, 2007

  "The media and pollsters don't focus on urban issues. They focus on the war, abortion, gay rights -- things that, quite frankly, for those of us in the trenches, are not exactly the hot button issues."

• Campaign in the City: Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin

  December 14, 2007

  "Water is my top 10 priorities. Or top 20"

• Campaign in the City: Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper

  December 14, 2007

  "The Rocky mountains are a place where people come together and put aside partisan issues to solve problems. Being able to talk about those pragmatic solutions is going to be of great benefit to the entire country."

• Campaign in the City: Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak

  December 14, 2007

  "I hope when the presidential candidates talk about cities, they stop thinking about us as basketcases, and think instead of the potential of cities to turn this country around."

• Campaign in the City: Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown

  December 14, 2007

  "While presidential candidates are raising substantial amounts of money in cities, they are spending it in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina ... It disproportionately puts the focus on [rural] areas of the country where the majority of our citizenry do not live."

• Campaign in the City: Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson

  December 14, 2007

  "Republicans and Democrats alike, among mayors in this country, have been very, very upset and concerned about the disregard for cities by this administration."

• Campaign in the City: Mayors on the Issues

  December 14, 2007

  Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in the fourth in a series of conversations on the issues at stake for America's cities in Campaign 08.

• Campaign in the City: LA Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa

  December 14, 2007

  "The federal government talks a good game about homeland security. And yet cities, like Los Angeles, are constantly struggling to get the resources we need to provide that security."

• It's Our Web

  December 10, 2007

  Stop corporate robots from taking over the Web. Freespeech.org explains how relentless marketing and data-mining puts your privacy in peril.

• Watch Your Foodometer

  June 25, 2007

  Here's a way to consume less oil: Eat locally! Video artist Molly Schwartz traces how far food travels from field to fork.