The Buzz: Action needed, not just talk

 I have said it in the past and I’ll be glad to say it again. If you want to clean up your neighborhood, pick up a trash sack and start walking. At least keep the streets in your end of town clean. That’s a small part but it’s a start. And it isn’t a very rewarding activity. Ask anyone who regularly picks up streets and highways.
It wasn’t that long ago, probably last year, a gentleman called me to tell me that he had filled more than a dozen trash sacks on the county road where he lives and it didn’t take but a day or two to see the roadsides full of trash again.
Rental property is a huge problem in our cities. A good share of landlords in this area are very responsible, rent to good people who take pride in the rental house and there is no problem. There is another faction that rents out houses with the intent of getting that rent check, and they pay little attention to how the renter drags down the house or the entire neighborhood. I saw a story written about broken windows. If you start leaving small things untouched, it gets bigger. And so it goes.

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