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Don’t Expect the Cities to Get Better
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Freddie Gray is dead and Baltimore is enraged—but don’t expect Washington to make any meaningful progress on how we handle our blighted cities.
Michael Tomasky
Special Correspondent
Published
Apr. 30 2015
5:15AM EDT
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Michael Tomasky
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