Ronnie Harris of Gretna, La., has bigtime problems. Gretna is apparently one messy, drab town across the Mississippi River from New Oreleans. The Wall Street Journal says Harris has his problems. Curbside recycling has failed. A park has been turned into a dump.
Citizens see no problem with junk piled up in their yards.
Warnings and citations from the mayor to obey a new zoning ordinance have been ignored. Owners of hundreds of horrible-looking boats, parked in front of hundreds of homes, have been told to remove them to enclosed spaces. Trouble is, they look better than the cars in many cases. One fisherman can't find the city's citation to remove his boat from the front yard and the junk lawnmowers from the side yard because he lost it amidst the junk inside his home. And Tenhengel thinks he has problems.