It’s Count-Our-Community-Blessings Time
Published: September 3, 2002
A good many years have passed since the citizens of Grand Rapids read of their town as being “blighted,” “crime-ridden,” “dysfunctional” or as having a “deserted downtown environment.” Such were among the fashionable terms that columnists in nearly all cities employed with relish from the late ’60s through the ’80s — and that the TV people echoed from their perches nightly like so many wide-eyed parrots.

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