Calls are being heard to provide at least $140 million more in "distressed cities" aid for fiscal 1989.

What is going to happen to that when the national media report that we're a distressed city?

The court's ruling was needed for the state to invoke its law governing financially distressed cities.

The Governor's plan would also provide $65 million in state aid to distressed cities.

They know Newark wants to promote, at almost any cost, the physical transformation of a distressed city that produces too little tax revenue.

One victim has been the state's aid program for distressed cities, which this fiscal year provided $120 million to eligible communities.

In some ways, these two very different men have similar approaches to managing a distressed city.

Of that gambling revenue, about $60 million a year would have been channeled back to local government to aid distressed cities.

This year, under a program once known as aid to distressed cities, Buffalo will receive $49 million.

The ambitious effort would direct new construction into distressed cities and the older suburbs closest to them.