… sirens wailing, are heading up Charles (away from the waterfront) as I type.
And many helicopters buzzing overhead.
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Even at their absolute best, the city’s leaders have to contend with the cumulative impact of past disadvantage. White flight means a smaller tax base and fewer resources for improvement; industrial collapse means fewer jobs; crack and violence means a generation of “missing” black men, in jail or in the ground; a culture of police violence means constant tension with the policed.
April 30th, 2015 at 6:12PM
the cracks in the foundations are too deep and wide to be settled at the level of city hall or maybe even the Gov’s office, where does the buck (and the bucks) stop for such systemic failures?