Tim Holahan claims to feel for his city what David Simon felt for Baltimore while making The Wire so he's written an unusual post applying the television show's lessons to New Haven. Here's one of them:
...making change means making enemies, and enemies can rob you of the power to make change. Holding office in a modern city strips a politician of his courage with brutal efficiency. The process is as murderous to dreams of reform as the drug industry is to its young soldiers.
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