GREEN BAY, Wis. — Brett Favre’s chartered jet arrived in Green Bay on Sunday evening, shortly before the Packers’ annual Family Night Scrimmage. Rain lingered and lightning cracked as fans greeted him hysterically, like young girls welcoming the Beatles in…

Businessman Michael Yun remembers what Jersey City, New Jersey, was like in the 1980s. “Like the wild, wild West,” he said. The “streets weren’t safe” and government was “out of control.” Public services failed, businesses left, and corruption was rampant….