The common language lost when the sky is allowed to keep falling
But saying it's falling is a start
By the Chilltown Blues
What is there to be said about a city that’s about 250 million dollars in the red, according to a report from its mayor?
The same that can be said about its most challenging section, a place that’s been in the red (and redlined) well before this winter of discontent.
Mayor James Solomon’s report emphasizes the need for truths to be shared, even they’re hard; doing so would seem to stand as a contrast to what we consider the previous administration’s “let’s keep it positive” copy flow while, according to Solomon’s Feb. 4 report, what was really happening was “depleting reserves, selling public land, and using every trick in the book …” to “avoid making honest decisions …”
That’s still in the air generally, we believe, but what’s also worth noting about this is the simple acknowledgement that no one digs out of a hole by pretending it’s not a hole.
The deepest holes exist at the crossroads of various lines of poverty, and all of that is reinforced by time.
