The prize for the most abjectly wrong headline in American journalism this week goes, I grieve to say, to the Los Angeles Times. Atop an article analyzing how California cities are coping with horrific budget crunches—which ran one day after the working-class exurb of San Bernardino followed its fellow working-class exurb Stockton into municipal bankruptcy—the headline writer plunked the following line: “Rising costs push California cities to fiscal brink.”
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Prospect.org Why Is San Bernardino Bankrupt?
Prospect.org Why Is San Bernardino Bankrupt?
In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named 
