Mr Maluf, a conservative, is Sao Paulo's weightiest and most controversial politician, a former governor in the days of military rule and, both earlier and later, mayor of Sao Paulo city.
Mr Rossi, a 58-year-old lawyer, has cast himself as an anti-establishment outsider, despite a long political career that has featured stints as a federal congressman and as mayor of Osasco, an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo city, and has seen him switch parties four times and churches thrice (he is currently an evangelical Protestant).
Prison gangs in Sao Paulo state penitentiaries brought Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, to a standstill last May when they used cells phones in jail to order their foot soldiers on the outside to attack police stations.
In Sao Paulo, a city of 11 million people and 7 million vehicles, traffic congestion is notorious.
CNN: Gas pumps near empty in Sao Paulo due to truckers strike
Massa was born in Sao Paulo, host city of the Brazilian Grand Prix, and is confident his home support will be an added spur in his title pursuit.
But he said he felt his links with Senna - who was born in Sao Paulo, the city that hosts this weekend's race - go far deeper than that.
Pixacao emerged in the 1980s in Sao Paulo, a sprawling city of 20 million people where the division between rich and poor is vast.
In 2006 it provoked the worst unrest ever seen in Sao Paulo, paralysing the city and resulting in the deaths of almost 500 civilians and close to 50 members of the security forces.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Gas pumps in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city and financial capital, were running dry Wednesday due to a truckers strike that began two days ago.
CNN: Gas pumps near empty in Sao Paulo due to truckers strike
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- In the heart of Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, the Little Peruvian Corner turns out spicy lomo saltado -- or jumping sirloin -- for a fast-growing immigrant population.
Officials in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo are to begin making people addicted to crack cocaine get treatment.
At least 13 people have died in fresh violence between police and a gang in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo.
Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo, saw 176 killings in October, more than double the number in the same period last year, official figures show.
Truckers declared a strike against new driving restrictions in the city of Sao Paulo that prevent them from using many central streets and arteries during peak hours.
CNN: Gas pumps near empty in Sao Paulo due to truckers strike
Among those sacked are Rosemary de Noronha, who heads the regional office of the presidency in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, and Deputy Attorney General, Jose Weber Holanda.
The top tip for the finance ministry is Antonio Palocci, the youngish former mayor of a city in Sao Paulo's farm belt, who now heads the transition team.
Latin America, too, has a plethora of huge and growing cities, but it's hard to nominate the likes of Mexico City or Sao Paulo as likely hot spots for future sustainable growth.
Sao Paulo is Massa's city and the red of Ferrari was everywhere among the crowds and in the streets around the circuit - caps, T-shirts, bicycles and a few faces all painted scarlet to help inspire their hero.
In the early 1990s, when privatisation was still heresy in Brazil, Mr Palocci, then mayor of Ribeirao Preto, a city in Sao Paulo's farmbelt, sold the municipal telephone company and called on private investors to build a water-treatment system.
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This latest scandal may spell the end for the political machine built by Paulo Maluf, a conservative populist who was variously the city's mayor and Sao Paulo's state governor during Brazil's military government of 1964-85.
In Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, voters faced heavy rains and threats of flooding.
There are now more international German companies in Sao Paulo alone than in any individual city in Germany.
But Volpon shows that these adjustments have already taken place, as evidenced by a 3% difference in unemployment rate between richer Sao Paulo and the poorer, Northern city of Recife observed from 2005 to 2007 had already been eliminated by 2008.
Marina Lima de Souza, 43, was found in the west of the city overnight, according to Sao Paulo police.
In cities like Kathmandu in Nepal, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, the channel's PSAs and documentaries about HIV got more people talking about the AIDS virus to the extent that a study by Family Health International showed changes in local behavior.
As mayor of Ribeirao Preto, a city of 500, 000 in Sao Paulo state, Mr Palocci privatised some municipal services and brought businessmen into his administration.
Folha de Sao Paulo, a newspaper that sometimes speaks for the city's industrialists, this week called for exchange controls which President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has firmly ruled out (as he once did devaluation).
To see how helpful greenhouse gas reductions could be, the authors evaluated the possible health improvements that could be achieved over the next two decades in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile), Mexico City and New York.
However, only one city in the region makes the top 10: Sao Paulo, with 26 billionaires, seven more than last year.
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