Ed, the problems in Trenton have been ignored and/or spun for personal and political gain for too many years. No one that is currently holding an elected municipal office should be thinking about running again. Those folks from the City Council that are planning on running for mayor must be smoking some of those illegal drugs that have been plaguing their respective wards for the last three decades. Failing schools, crime, corruption, unemployment, high taxes, filthy streets, abandoned buildings, etc.! Instead of making comparisons to other municipalities and using those to justify minimal progress and improvements, all of these soon to be unemployed elected officials should have seen to their own backyard — Trenton.

House Cleaner

Perhaps the leaders have been unable to cure the community’s ills. That’s no reason to accuse them of drug abuse. Let’s keep it civil, ladies and gentlemen, in keeping with the BackTalk code of honor.—Ed. Note