Ed, I’m calling about the critics of Mayor Palmer’s pool fees. I’m not defending Palmer, but I lived in Trenton all my life until six years ago, and when I was growing up in Chambersburg 50 years ago, we didn’t have pools or air conditioning. So, if they have to pay a small fee to get in the pool, they should be happy. My generation had to go to Hamilton to the Woodlawn pool, and it wasn’t free, we paid. We never had free pools. So let’s stop feeling sorry because they have to pay. Today, they have everything given to them, and they expect it.

In My Day

While I admire your hard-ass old school approach, there are many Trenton kids who have very little handed to them, and the stakes if we let them go to the dark side. Put me down as pro-free-pool.— Ed. Note