Privileging the frank: Part 3, Beware of little expenses; a small leak will...
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship – Benjamin Franklin, Postmaster General By now,...
View ArticlePrivileging the frank: Part 4, If you would know the value of money, go and...
[Concluded from yesterday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By:David A. Smith If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. – Benjamin Franklin, Postmaster General...
View ArticleFolly or catalyst? Part 1, “I bought strong locks”
By: David A. Smith A dying downtown is unspeakably depressing. Property’s decay and death is painfully slow and painfully visible: fading signs, drawn blinds, leaves and scraps huddled in doorway...
View ArticleFolly or catalyst? Part 2, “With bankruptcy being over”
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith As we saw yesterday, the economic decline of downtown Stockton has spanned several decades, and as the city’s finances worsened, the downtown –...
View ArticleFolly or catalyst? Part 3, “Something Downtown Stockton can be proud of”
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith As we saw yesterday, Stockton’s economic decline became possible to arrest only with bankruptcy and its slashing of...
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