I have similar problems.  However, the argument that my neighbors are 
doing it is wrong on two counts;

First, we have a wind problem.  A lot of trash gets blown here from 
lake Street.

Second, it's people from outside, especially the burbies who come here 
looking for sex & drugs and think that we are their trash can.



On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 08:51 PM, j c harmon wrote:

> I recall a semi-controversy a couple years back when former CM 
> Cherryhomes was seeking some funds to help to clean-up West Broadway. 
> Naysayers from the cleaner, gentler wards were miffed. The argument 
> being that people in their wards don't throw garbage all over, and why 
> should another ward get money to fix what is essentially a behavioral 
> problem... It's hard to convince people who don't litter to part with 
> tax dollars to pay the slobs that do. Besides, there are already tax 
> dollars at work paying Sentenced-to-Serve crews to do that for them.
>

Robert Schmid
Central Neighborhood
Candidate for Hennepin Soil & Water Board, District 2
Green Party Endorsed
http://www.raptor.net/~rschmid

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