Tough Love is a collection of weekly newspaper columns, front-page feature articles, and other commentary by a longtime Washington, DC reporter who returned home to Norwich, Connecticut. Planning a second career and a new life, the author instead found his journalist’s instincts at full alert as he watched–often incredulously–as the city’s leaders grasped at one plan after another to save the city. Tough Love is more than the story–stories, really–of one old American city; it’s a close-up look at what has been called ‘the other America, ’ the left-behind hometowns that made the nation wealthy–but now struggle to find a new place in a new millennium that seems to be passing them by