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Mt. Hope v College Hill & Why
I've often maintained that that Mt. Hope gets short shrift from the City as far as services and this is nowhere as evident as when it comes to snow removal. I've often verified this by driving over to College Hill during a snow storm to see how those streets are being cleared compared to Mt. Hope streets. I am able to do this because I am self-employed and as such I control my own time, and I am driving around in a 4-wheel drive vehicle that can navigate even our streets that have not been cleared.
I draw a sharp parallel between College Hill and Mt. Hope because both neighborhoods are situated on steep hills, difficult to negotiate during snow storms. Yet in my observations college Hill streets are cleared immediately while even main streets in Mt. Hope, like Camp Street, Cypress Street, and Doyle Street are ignored for hours and hours.
Why is this? Is it because traditionally Mt. Hope has been home to a largely impoverished minority community? Where is our Councilman in this inequality? Our councilman who is so quick to come to the aid of our poor oppressed African-American drug dealers always alleging racial profiling and police harassment while denying that a drug dealing problem even exists in Mt. Hope? Why isn't he alleging discrimination in allocating City services to Mt. Hope? You can bet your ass he is advocating for the Summit, for he is a savvy politician who plays Mt. Hope and the Summit like a harp -- he knows just what these poor suckers like to hear.
But Mt. Hope is no longer a community dominated by minorities. Minorities are now a minority, largely marginalized to subsidized ghettos like that on Pleasant Street, while most of Mt. Hope is middle class property owners, and almost all of the property tax revenue is
generated by middle class homeowners.
So this poll goes to beg the question, why is Mt. Hope treated like a second class citizen and why isn't our councilman fighting for Mt. Hope? Oh yeah, I almost forgot, our Councilman lives on Jenkins Street and in case you've never noticed, Jenkins Street is always well ploughed.
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Posted at December 13, 2007 11:54 PM