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Good old days
Ed, why are people blaming Mayor Palmer for rundown houses and littering at Martin Luther King Blvd. (formerly Princeton Avenue). When most of my relatives resided there in the 50s and 60s, that area from the monument all the way to Olden Avenue was a beautiful place to live. I don’t think the mayor at that time had anything to do with it; it was the residents of those homes who took pride in where they lived. People are blaming Palmer but it’s the residents who should fix the broken porches and teach their children not to litter on the streets. Unfortunately, I don’t think the drug problem will ever be resolved. I’m very grateful I was a kid back in the 50s and 60s.
Old Timer
You’re right. But unfortunately, like L.A. Parker pointed out in a recent column, these are the good old days for today’s generation of kids.— Ed. Note
posted by Trentonian Editor at
12:27 AM
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Neither good ole day resignation or present day oblivion will change the facts in front of us. In a realistic way Palmer can do just that. His city council members should enforce the very ordinances they lazily create. There are many laws on the City of Trenton Books that would prevent many of the city's ills. Private property owners as well as absentee landlords should be held responsible for their properties, I agree. Yet, if they aren't responsible or refuse to be, the city already has an ordinance on the books, that can force them to take responsibility. Why don't they enforce it you ask? Well, perhaps because Palmer doesn't hold his administration to task. If their are areas in the city that need proper authorities to initiate their community status obligations, then why hasn't Palmers administrtion seen to it. To many excuses have been made and many of them come from city administration.
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