Letters 12/17/15
Where have the steam rollers gone? Dear ER: Have they finished paving Hermosa Ave. yet? I had to stop and check for a flat on my bike because the paving job is so rough. Can’t Hermosa afford a steam roller? If you want to see good paving, check out Aviation Boulevard between Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Marine. Ron Wike Redondo Beach Elephant in the harbor Dear ER: As a Beachie (Beach Cities denizen) and language arts tutor, CenterCal has provided my students and me with a rich trove of real-time, local, Bernaysian propaganda to interpret and for this we can’t thank it enough (“Waterfront redevelopment: Community challenges ‘Rescue’ effort,” ER December 10, 2015). I of course side with Martin Holmes, Candace Nafissi and the ‘anti-‘ klatsch and cannot help but note with a smirk that developers and Realtors are becoming the new lawyers, for which relief I’m sure attorneys are sacrificing entire acres of chickens and praying hosannas to their various capitalist greed-gods. What’s really at stake here is never mentioned, though everyone’s perfectly cognizant of it. I’m referring to the ethnic and class xenophobias of the Beach Cities in a double bind of epic proportions: erecting a…
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