I read in the Star Tribune today that the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis
have been negotiating about placement and operation of paper boxes on our
streets. If you come to the corner of 38th Street and 23rd Ave S you will
see some big offenders. The free boxes are continuously open with papers
getting strewn over the entire neighborhood and caught up in the Nile Health
Care chain link fence. And they have graffiti all over them is just as
bad. And if you go up and down 38th you'll see the same thing. I believe
if they can't clean up their garbage act, maintain them properly or remove
the graffiti in a timely manner they should be removed completely.
I reported graffiti on a Star Tribune Box on 38th weeks ago and it is still
there. What amazes me even more is that someone loads that thing with papers
every day and not once has there been an effort to clean up the graffiti.
This is part of what I believe is a culture of "inner city thinking" in both
government and corporate leadership in our city. Somehow an "inner city
look" is just acceptable and we become immune to fighting the deterioration.
How about some civic responsibility Star Tribune? Please clean up your act
in our neighborhoods.
Russell W. Peterson
Ward 9
Standish
R U S S E L L P E T E R S O N D E S I G N
"You can only fly if you stretch your wings."
Russell W. Peterson, RA, CID
Founder
3857 23rd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-724-2331
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