What the letter writer really proposes is that pro-life people simply abandon a teaching handed down consistently for over three millennia and observed by Jews and Christians who have tried, however imperfectly, to be faithful to a divine judgement already given. That is not going to happen. Your articles regarding grocery store needs and the 10 percent set aside of new tax money for the southeast were excellent. The southeast is not a place with a fence around it. Residents throughout our city are impacted by the unmet needs of that area.
Blight is like cancer.
It will not be contained unless resisted. New development is rapidly changing the character of the westside, as the eastside continues its decay. The line between decaying east and developing west is shifting westward. In another 20 years, downtown Bakersfield will be somewhere around The Marketplace and new westside residents will be complaining about traffic noise on Interstate 5. Aggressive, creative solutions to the east- side problem exist.