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Home California San Bernardino

Town: San Bernardino

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  • Local Institutions

Inside Our Towns: Project Fighting Chance

  • Evan Sanford and James Fallows
  • August 8, 2022
Evan Sanford and James Fallows talk with Ian Franklin and Terry Boykins about Project Fighting Chance -- a boxing gym that is more than a boxing gym in San Bernardino. They discuss how it got started, how it has grown, and an immediate challenge it faces today.
N435SR parked at its new home at the San Bernardino Airport in California (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Travel

The End of the Journey

  • Deborah Fallows
  • January 18, 2017
Arriving in Tucson, we felt the inklings of coming full circle with our American Futures project. Only one more leg of our journey, about 400 miles, before we reached our destination of…
Barn at the Deerwood Ranch wild horse refugee, outside Laramie, Wyoming. (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

All Progress Is Local: New Year’s Notes From Around the Country

  • James Fallows
  • January 1, 2017
New Year's Notes from Around the Country
Members of San Bernardino’s “Generation Now" Matthew Greenleaf, Saniyyah Thomas, Jennica Billins, Michael Segura, Jorge Heredia, and Fabian Torres: the young people who think they can save a bankrupt, low-hope city (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

Talking About a Second Gilded Age, With ‘On Point’ Listeners

  • James Fallows
  • February 23, 2016
Two updates today: 1) On Point. I spoke today with Tom Ashbrook of WBUR and his On Point audience, about my contention (in the current cover story) that even in this time of wage…
Illustration by Adam Voorhes and Robin Finlay.
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  • Civic Life

How America Is Putting Itself Back Together

  • James Fallows
  • February 22, 2016
Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.
The Norman F. Feldheym Central Library in San Bernardino, California (Amerique at Wikimedia Commons)
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  • Libraries

Pitching in to Save a Library

  • Deborah Fallows
  • February 16, 2016
In San Bernardino, one way to help save the city is to save its library.
Scene from Mojave Trails National Monument, one of three new protected areas President Obama created today (Jack Thompson for the Wildlands Conservancy)
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  • Travel

Welcome Our Newest National Monuments!

  • James Fallows
  • February 12, 2016
Often it seems that modern presidents can't do anything — except wage war. Here's a heartening exception.
In its heyday San Bernardino was a city of well-tended, modest family homes. One of today's nice neighborhoods on the north side of town. (James Fallows)
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  • Civic Life

The San Bernardino Story: Fire Fighters Weigh In

  • James Fallows
  • June 23, 2015
Who is to blame when a struggling city runs out of money? A public-safety worker says it's unfair to point the finger at him and his colleagues. Plus, a young resident of the city discovers reasons to hope.
San Bernardino's Dr. Bill Clarke (right), presenting 14-year-old Frank Le of Indian Springs High School with a certificate of proficiency in operating an advanced Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) milling machine like the one behind them. This is part of a new skills-for-all emphasis in the city's schools. (James Fallows)
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  • Education

Building for the Future, In California’s Famously Failed City

  • James Fallows
  • June 14, 2015
The Los Angeles Times has a big, new demonstration of how bad things have gotten in the city of San Bernardino. Here’s a look at people doing their best, despite those odds.
Cajon High School, San Bernardino, California (Deborah Fallows)
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  • K-12

A High School That Changes Lives, One at a Time

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 27, 2015
Teachers and students in a bankrupt California city, determined to make progress
"Keeping America Great in Manufacturing," one training project at a time. (Mobile Lab outside main site of Technical Employment Training in San Bernardino, California) (James Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

Post-Memorial Day Note: Another Kind of Service, San Bernardino

  • James Fallows
  • May 26, 2015
"I don't just sit around. I don't sleep much. That's what I do. I do stuff." The story of a man determined to do something for his town.
Sun over mountains.
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  • Governance

Today a Bankrupt City Votes on Its Next Steps

  • James Fallows
  • May 18, 2015
"We've gotten used to gridlock and stalemate at the national level. This is what it looks like for a city." What civic dysfunction has in common with excessive CEO pay, and why it matters.
View toward San Bernardino, along the usually dry bed of the Santa Ana River, from the hills to the north. The mountain in the left-center distance is Mount San Jacinto, 50 miles away en route to Palm Springs. (James Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

What It’s Like When Your City Goes Broke

  • James Fallows
  • May 14, 2015
San Bernardino, California, is poor, and has a high unemployment rate, and is affected by drought, and is in bankruptcy court. But its real problem is something else.
Members of San Bernardino’s “Generation Now" Matthew Greenleaf, Saniyyah Thomas, Jennica Billins, Michael Segura, Jorge Heredia, and Fabian Torres: the young people who think they can save a bankrupt, low-hope city (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Citizen Engagement

‘Generation Now’—What People Do, When There Seems to Be Nothing to Do

  • James Fallows
  • April 28, 2015
In the next few installments I will be talking about two cities in inland Southern California that have some things in common but have headed in very different directions, and…
The Darth Vader-looking aircraft, in flight (Brian Lockett for Air-and-Space.com)
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  • Aviation

Ask and Ye Shall Be Told, Mystery Airplane Edition

  • James Fallows
  • February 4, 2015
Sometimes crowdsourcing pays off.
The flight line this afternoon at KSBD, San Bernardino International Airport (James Fallows)
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  • Aviation

When I Grow Up …

  • James Fallows
  • February 3, 2015
Darth Vader vs. Casper the Friendly Ghost, on an airport tarmac

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