From suburb to basket case: How California city traveled the road to ruin
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The mayor criticized a dysfunctional city council and greedy police and fire unions. The unions criticized the mayor. Even now, there is little contract on exactly how the city entered this crisis or exactly how it can extricate itself. "It's total political chaos," said John Husing, a previous San Bernardino resident and regional economist. "There is no solution. They'll never fix anything.". Yet on close examination, the city's decades-long trip from prosperous, middle-class area to bankrupt, crime-ridden, foreclosure-blighted basket case is straightforward -- and alarmingly similar to the path traveled by many municipalities around America's biggest state. San Bernardino succumbed to a vicious circle of self-interests among city employees, regional politicians and state pension overseers.
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| -0.299826 | "It's total political chaos," said John Husing, a former San Bernardino resident and regional economist. "There is no solution. They'll never fix anything." |
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From suburb to basket case: How California city traveled the road to ruin
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San Bernardino, Calif.'s decades-long journey from prosperous, middle-class community to bankrupt, crime-ridden, foreclosure-blighted basket case is straightforward — and alarmingly similar to the path traveled by many municipalities around America's largest state.
