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The Decline and Fall of a Once Great American City

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The Decline and Fall of a Once Great American City

Now, San Francisco is a very dark place.

Bernard Goldberg
Jul 6, 2021
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The Decline and Fall of a Once Great American City

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Back in the late 1970s I was based in San Francisco as a correspondent with CBS News.  I remember that more than a few of us referred to the city as “Halloween-by-the-sea” – a good-natured nod to the city’s quirkiness.

Over the years, the progressives who ran the city government would weigh in on one foreign policy matter or another, which prompted one w…

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