No mountain of litter this year in Sch’dy, but plenty of mounds
As I sit down to write this letter at the Better Neighborhoods Inc. office where I volunteer, a staffer is just heading out the door wearing rubber gloves for the daily litter pickup that has become part of his job at the agency. He tells me that he snags about half a garbage bag a day of trash deposited by pedestrians and motorists passing by the offi ce. Last spring Schenectady’s littering problem was reflected in the mountain of trash that was deposited in Central Park along with the snow from that winter’s frequent storms. Volunteers cleaned up the park. This year we had no mountain only because we had no snow. As the situation at Better Neighborhood’s office demonstrates, we still have the litter. The city of Schenectady, like most jurisdictions, has a littering ordinance on the books; an offender can get a fi ne of $250 for the first littering offense and $500 for the second. This ordinance is not enforced. After hearing about “Trash Mountain” in Central Park last year, I presented some ideas to the City Council for enforcing the ordinance. My ideas went nowhere. At the May meeting of the Hamilton Hill Neighborhood Association, Police Chief Mark Chaires committed to a littering sweep. That has yet to happen. Interestingly, at the July 9 City Council meeting, local gadfly Mary McClaine, in addition to admitting to being a trash picker, testified that she had a seven-point plan for addressing the littering problem. Because she had been passed over for the City Council seat currently filled by Marion Porterfield, she did not want the City Council “picking her brain”; she told the council they could “figure it out.” As Ms. McClaine well knows, the children of Schenectady who have to play on trash-strewn streets and the marine animals who choke on Schenectady’s litter when it eventually works its way to the ocean did not deny her that City Council seat. Ms. McClaine would do well to think back to the words of President Kennedy, “ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country.” Put the word city in there, Ms. McClaine, and share your ideas!
how surprising that pigs would foul their own pen. Thank the peasant world view for that.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Another diversity update! The DEMS morons dump trash at Central Park and then have a volunteer sheeple day to clean it up. Because they have no money left. Litter is so far down on the list of City problems it's laughable. It's the insane DEM taxes-stupid.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Thought this thread was about the cowardly cuckoo's house.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Thought this thread was about the cowardly cuckoo's house.
Number 1. I am NOT a coward. I am a PRIVATE citizen (and taxpayer). I am NOT a public official that must identify myself. Nor is my wife any of those. And I have a wife!
Number 2. At least I have a house which is more than the rest of us can say for you. At least the rest of us on these boards have a job and are self supporting adults who are independent of the mama boobs.
Number 3. YOU are obviously the cuckoo who hasn't flown from the nest despite being of adult age, for what, 30 years at least since you were 18
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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Another diversity update! The DEMS morons dump trash at Central Park and then have a volunteer sheeple day to clean it up. Because they have no money left. Litter is so far down on the list of City problems it's laughable. It's the insane DEM taxes-stupid. 
