Cash-strapped town reaches for the future

Ping-ponging between the threat of insolvency and revitalisation plans that tend to fizzle out, Suisun City has tried to revive its fortunes for years. — Aaron Wojack/The New York Times

By Conor Dougherty

SUISUN City, a town of 30,000 in a neglected corner of the San Francisco Bay Area, is defined by its marshy waterfront and chronic lack of money.