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Revitalizing America's towns: Has one unorthodox mayor found a path to success?
The national economic disaster hit the city of Braddock
Pennsylvania, like a wrecking ball. But Braddock mayor John
Fetterman - dubbed "America's Coolest Mayor" by The New
York Times - is taking very unconventional approaches to
reinventing the town and re-inspiring its residents. Home to the
nation's first A&P supermarket and Andrew Carnegie's first
steel mill, Braddock is being revitalized with new youth and art
programs, renovations of abandoned real estate and bold plans to
attract artists and green industries. NOW sits down with Mayor
Fetterman to learn how the 6'8" 370-pound political novice is
trying to turn his town around, and if other devastated communities
can and should follow his large footsteps.