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The Ricochet Podcast

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The Loss of the American Major American City

I spent a lot of time looking in old newspaper source material. Just this morning I was finding one a story in 1971 that said San Francisco now leads the nation in heroin users. So it was there from the beginning, but a very small number. And what San Francisco did not have at the time was the sort of disorder that we hear about constantly entire neighborhoods being left over. We turned the corner, the American major American city was a tremendous success story. Now we're on the verge of losing the whole thing about it.

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