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This month’s highlights

COVER STORY/Federalism
Recipe for Respect: pleading for help from Washington

Economic Development
Being the Best: the downside of city ratings
Online Xtra: Find out how your city is ranked

Social Services
Is Welfare Working?: the great winnowing

Telecommunications
Unscripted Ending: the blurring picture for public-access TV
Online Xtra: Clips of local shows that have moved online

Transportation
The Year of the Superbus: a transformation

Columns
· Assessments: Alan Ehrenhalt on walkable urbanism
· Tech Talk: Ellen Perlman on connecting caseworkers
· Potomac Chronicle: Donald F. Kettl on yesterday's EPA
· Transportation: Alex Marshall on America's bumpy roads
· Economic Development: William Fulton on benefiting from BRAC
· Environment: Tom Arrandale on small towns and warming