In a message dated 4/8/2007 7:18:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Perhaps there is a neighborhood out there that no yuppie will touch in a million years That's what the impression was of this neighborhood 25 to 50 years (50 << 1,000,000) ago, when the bourgeosie of the yuppies' grandparents generation couldn't get away fast enough. But the people UCD is now berating and saying should pay everyone else back bought in (often with all we could scrape together), took big risks in doing so, put in lots of late hours and sweat equity renovating insides and out, and so forth -- creating a diverse, funky 'hood and paving the way for respectability. Other things helped, too. Like the Penn Mortgage program, the Alexander School (if you'll forgive an architectural design worse than any porch tear-down or Home-Depot baluster job in the area), and the persistance of merchants like Koch's, Davis Pharmacy, and Monarch Hardware. All of whom deserve to be thanks, if not "paid back," by the yuppies, rather than taxed for the pretentiousness of the people who came after the way was paved. Al Krigman Register your opposition to the NID via the Internet to Councilwoman Blackwell -- With some background: _www.iconworldwide.com/speakup_ (http://www.iconworldwide.com/speakup) Go directly to the form: _http://www.iconworldwide.com/speakup/nonid-01.html_ (http://www.iconworldwide.com/speakup/nonid-01.html) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
