On April 7, there was a shoot-out on my street. Around 10 p.m., there was a quick series of pops that sounded like firecrackers and I suspected nothing suspicious until the neighbor’s raucous birthday party was replaced with hushed conversation. This is not random violence. I don’t know the players, but this play is becoming more violent by the day. The city needs to address this issue and not through an expansion of the police force or by installing even more privacy-destroying security cameras on our streets. We need to lower property and business taxes in order to attract a strong infrastructure, which will help curb the tide of drug-related violence. We should lower our sales tax rate below the surrounding counties to help bring customers to the new businesses that will spring up overnight. We need to privatize our schools. There is certainly enough demand when our sole high school houses 3,000 students. We need to stop spending public money on these lofty projects and instead create a climate that people and businesses can thrive in. By doing that, the city itself will thrive. Then and only then will I feel safe at night.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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Can't believe they printed this truth. The City is suffering from a structural breakdown which cannot be fixed with more structure.
