Northside neighborhoods ignored

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Northside neighborhoods ignored

The story about Jim McKeighen was outrageous and shameful. Not because of his efforts, but because a block within the city limits apparently had an illegal and open dump for years. Do we have two Lexingtons?

I thought code enforcement applied to everyone. Are the northside neighborhoods simply ignored? I hate to think of all the other ways in which our poorer neighbors struggle to have decent housing, clean streets, real grocery stores and good schools. And it also appears that the fancy, covered bus stops are on the south side of the city as well.

I think its time for Mayor Jim Gray and his cronies to get off the outrageously expensive and unneeded projects like a creek through downtown and start doing some basic civic improvements for the benefit of all citizens.

I recall a recent mayoral candidate who was “not just for downtown.” We made a mistake in not electing him.

Sally Wasielewski

Lexington

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Schaeffer column on tribalism draws responses. Also, thoughts on respectful firefighters, McConnell, border wall

By Herald-Leader readers

February 22, 2019 11:51 AM

Expansive identity

Because of our experience as Peace Corps volunteers and staff living and working in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Fiji, and our experience since of knowing immigrants as good friends and family, we have a much broader idea of identity than what Cameron S. Schaeffer described in his recent Herald-Leader commentary (“Tribalism and media prejudice ruining America”, Feb. 16).

We know it’s possible for immigrant citizens to feel connected to and contribute to both the United States and their countries of origin. It is even possible for those who are American-born to be connected to and contribute to the United States and another country. We know an immigrant from Libya who has lived in Lexington for 35 years and says, “I value this country in a different way than people who were born here because I have seen both sides. There is nothing wrong with loving two countries.” Another says, “I am from South Sudan but I am also American. It’s both of me. I have to stand in the middle.”