Word: chattanooga
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...good urban property is abandoned. Perverse incentives often encourage the trend. Banks deny mortgages in declining neighborhoods, and environmental regulations may make it more expensive for a developer to reclaim an abandoned urban site than to build on virgin land outside the city. But places like Baltimore, Maryland, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, have proved that downtowns can be revived. President Bill Clinton in 1996 signed an Executive Order requiring all new U.S. offices to be placed in urban areas if possible, preferably in historic buildings...
Instead of reparations, it would be better for America's leaders and academics to approach the heritage of slavery by making moral, not monetary, amends. One approach would be to return to clear examples of injustice and set them right, albeit symbolically. For example, a court in Chattanooga, Tenn. recently overturned the Jim Crow-era rape conviction of Ed Johnson, who is believed to have been innocent. By reversing the verdict of a trial Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Class of 1861, described as a "shameful attempt at justice," the city demonstrated its contrition regarding a specific example of injustice through...