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3. "Anger." "There's such a level of skepticism in Fall River about politicians, including me,"

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Sun Dec 1, 2024, 10:19 PM

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he said. “There’s very little trust.” The anger Coogan sensed has been gestating for a century. Fall River was once a major player in the nation’s economy, and its cotton mills made it an “American Textile Colossus.” But the colossus collapsed in the 1920s as the mills headed to the South. The city’s economy never fully recovered. . .

But investments take time to be felt, and Biden’s efforts, Lambert said, were “obscured by grocery prices and the cost of living and rents going up.”'

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