And HERE IT IS AGAIN!!!!
Notice how the report never really connects it to the globalist forces that are driving this shit?
So typical of the lying, obfuscating, quarter-truth-teller (if that) AmeriKan MSM!
"A whaling city sets about recasting its gritty image; New Bedford officials promote the region's potential with developers" by Robert Preer, Globe Correspondent | July 10, 2008
NEW BEDFORD - This old whaling city has a growing community of artists, lofts carved out of old mills, cobblestone streets, a picturesque harbor, and stunning views from its coastline.
This is the image local leaders want to project of New Bedford, rather than what some may associate with the city: illegal immigration, gang violence, sensational crimes, and industrial pollution.
Like many older cities in Massachusetts, New Bedford has struggled to recover from the collapse of its 19th- and early 20th-century mill industries and a subsequent influx of crime, poverty, and other urban ills.
New Bedford has much to overcome. Crime, including gang and youth violence, has been a problem. Last month, there was a stabbing after an antiviolence concert at the Zeiterion Theatre, which has been a key facility in the city's arts revival. The immigration raid at the Michael Bianco Inc. textile factory in 2007 exposed the existence of a large exploited underclass of undocumented workers.
New Bedford has other problems common to older cities: an aging housing stock that includes many run-down triple-deckers; and a legacy of industrial pollution, including the PCB contamination of New Bedford Harbor, which was declared a Superfund site in 1983. Its cleanup is ongoing. The city has about 150 acres of contaminated brownfields.
Officials also have been frustrated in efforts to get commuter rail extended to the city. The latest plan by Governor Deval L. Patrick's administration would start rail service in 2016, although neither a route nor funding for the $1.4 billion project has been identified.
The rest is basically a P.R. add for New Bedford.
You are welcome to read it if you wish:
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