In a city that likes to pitch itself as being green it is sad this sort of thing is allowed to go one. Yesterday, I picked up a copy of The Clipper from my driveway but as is usually the case with living on a corner lot I found a second copy out front this morning. Follow the link to learn about the adverse environmental impacts of what the News & Record is doing.
These next two pictures are neighbors I can see from my house. Are they too lazy to clean up? No, both are disabled and bedridden dependent on health care providers who visit daily. From time to time neighbors will pick up the News & Record trash. It took me all of 2 minutes to walk out, snap these 3 pictures and walk back into my house. Think how many I could have photographed had I walked around the block. And my able bodied neighbors? They go to work before daylight and come back after dark never seeing these things until the weekend.
As in most things Greensboro, this started in Greensboro's working class neighborhoods where no one in Greensboro government really gives a damn. Just like the Duke Power tree trimming that devastated nearby Phillips Avenue it's not a problem until it happens in Ed Cone's neighborhood or another neighborhood like his. People in Ed Cone's neighborhood will say that's because people in working class neighborhoods don't network and lobby our elected officials. They're right, working class people don't network and lobby because all their time is spent working to survive. When the working class becomes politically active they become penniless and living with their mother like me.
It's time for a change, Greensboro! It's time to end the News & Record's habit of littering Greensboro streets and the streets of dozens of other cities and towns all across the Piedmont Triad. It's also time we called on the Greensboro City Council to look towards proactive government that takes into account the needs of working class neighborhoods and doesn't wait until our problems become problems for Ed Cone before they decide to act. This knee jerk form of governance is absurd, wastes time, energy, money and accomplishes little. It's time Greensboro's leaders became about all of Greensboro and not just the Ed Cone's of Greensboro.
If you'd like to complain to the Greensboro News & Record you may call them at 1-800-553-6880. To complain to the Greensboro City Council click here or call 336-373-2002. Tell them, Billy Jones sent you. Or don't. If you don't give a damn.
