Washington Post: Big-City Leaders Call Stimulus a Fine Start

From Washington Post:

 New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) has said the federal money from the economic stimulus plan could save 14,000 teacher jobs and 1,000 police officer positions he had planned to cut. The money could expand the subway system, avert hospital closures and create a new urban economy surrounding energy retrofitting, according to other officials.  Across the country, urban leaders and advocates say the stimulus plan that President Obama is to sign Tuesday will create jobs in cities and blunt the impact of the economic crash. But they hope the funding package only begins to hint at the ambitious urban policy agenda Obama has articulated.  "It's a down payment," said Trenton Mayor Douglas H. Palmer (D), the past president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "But we're certainly on the right track."