Today’s successful downtowns rely on a mix of ingredients, said Steven Falk, the former city manager of Lafayette, who’s served as an interim city executive in Oakland and Richmond and who lectures at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
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Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
2 June 2026
Bad teams are given mechanisms to recover, not lectures about bootstraps.
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Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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