You wrote “What a terrible article. You really have to work to figure out that “this city” is Camden, New Jersey.”
Well, a “journalist” couldn’t come right out and say it’s Camden. That might hurt the self-esteem of the Camden democrat politicians and union leaders.
OTOH, it might be that in order to drive traffic to the original site, burying below the excerpt, depending on how far down it is, is the equivalent of putting all the details of a headline inside a newspaper so that you have to purchase it to achieve “closure”.