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Executive Director, @TheCivic. Founder, @ReadJunto & @Sagebrush_Inst. Former US Army Intel, Fox News.

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The World's Loneliest Beat

The World's Loneliest Beat

Conservative local journalism is dying-not because nobody reads it, but because nobody funds it. The last peo…

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Death Takes a Long Time

Death Takes a Long Time

No one tells you how slow death can be, and how easy it is to miss it if you're not paying attention.

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A Place Worth Winning

A Place Worth Winning

New York elects a Republican roughly once a generation. The moment is approaching and nobody on the right is …

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Iran Was Becoming North Korea

Iran Was Becoming North Korea

The same deterrent playbook, a bigger economy, and a decades-long war against the United States. The administ…

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The TV Host Who Went to War

The TV Host Who Went to War

The people who told you he couldn't do the job owe you an explanation.

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The Ground We Gave Away

The Ground We Gave Away

The DSA is building power where the right stopped showing up.

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The Civic Weekly Brief

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By Philip Reichert
| The Civic
Major flooding returned this week, and new systems bought after last summer got their first test. Four days of tropical rain put South Central Texas back underwater. An EF-1 tornado tore across the Northwest Side near The Rim on Wednesday, Uvalde ordered mandatory evacuations, and by Thursday morning the Guadalupe at Comfort was at 37.08 feet (above last July's record) with two deaths confirmed as of Thursday night.
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The Street Is Not Mercy

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By Philip Reichert
| The Civic
Timothy Schmalz's "Homeless Jesus" at St. Mary's Catholic Church, downtown San Antonio. The figure is identifiable as Christ only by the wounds on the feet. The pose is a familiar sight in America—and San Antonio. By the only standard that matters—outcomes—San Antonio has a better claim than nearly any big city in America to getting homelessness right. The downtown homeless count fell as much as 77 percent in the years after Haven for Hope opened in 2010.
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It’s America’s Seventh-Largest City. Why is San Antonio Still So Poor?

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By Philip Reichert
| City Journal Verified
Philip Reichert It’s America’s Seventh-Largest City. Why is San Antonio Still So Poor? The city’s leadership is focused on making poverty more livable, not less common. Donate City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank. Are you interested in supporting the magazine? As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, donations in support of MI and City Journal are fully tax-deductible as provided by law (EIN #13-2912529).
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