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The Fall of a Great American City: The Societal and Political Decay That Has Upended Pittsburgh

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The Fall of a Great American City: The Societal and Political Decay That Has Upended Pittsburgh
The skyline view of downtown Pittsburgh in a file photo. Taylor/Unsplash.com
Salena Zito
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PITTSBURGH—It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning, and a homeless man is curled up against the decorative angled brick below the archways of the large pane windows that line the office building known as the Fort Pitt Commons.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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