The Other Side of Ferguson

FERGUSON, Missouri — On one side of Ferguson streets are dotted with well-kept ranch homes. Tire swings hang from decades-old maple trees blooming from manicured lawns. There’s a park with a swimming pool and a winding waterslide. With its quaint coffee shop and mom-and-pop dry cleaners, the main street in downtown Ferguson could have been plucked out of Pleasantville

But Ferguson also has a “wrong side of the tracks.” When you cross over the hill where Ferguson Avenue meets West Florissant, you would never believe you were in the same city — let alone a place that operated under the same government on the same budget Read more...

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