San Bernardino struggled for three decades before bankruptcy decision

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http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_21077655/san-bernardino-struggled-decades-before-bankruptcy-decision

By Joe Nelson and Ryan Hagen, Staff Writerspresstelegram.com
Posted: 07/14/2012 09:59:18 PM PDT
July 15, 2012 5:27 AM GMTUpdated: 07/14/2012 10:27:14 PM PDT

<snip>"It's a three-decade long experience," said Mayor Pat Morris, noting, however, that the real blow to the city has come in just the past few years.

"You had a city that was really functioning well, and it was really moving forward," Inland Empire economist John Husing said.

Then came the 1980s, when a series of unfortunate events battered the local economy.

The slide began in 1983, when the Kaiser Steel Mill shut down, idling more than 8,000 workers, said local historian Nick Cataldo.

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1. Unlike Mammoth and Half Moon Lakes

there was no large court judgement against them either.