The work is expected to take about six weeks, and the words will be replaced by an unspecified set of city-sponsored murals.

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“Once it was over, he sold us down the river,” says one woman. “I went to school with him and he was a big-headed bone even then,” adds another. A third starts to tut: “He never really cared about us ...