Watching once-great cities being killed by terrible governance is a really painful part of the modern American experience. It's a similar story in San Francisco.
• Chicago is now the slowest-growing major city in the U.S.; its population now hovers around 1920s levels
• A third of Chicago's schools are less than half full. For example, Frederick Douglass Academy High School was built to hold more than 900 students. Last year, it served
