The Trentonian (Trenton, NJ)

Back Talk

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Water woes

Morning Ed. I never received notices in the mail about my water until the past two mayors have been in Trenton. I don’t understand why there was never a problem before. They should just turn the whole thing over to the department of environmen­t protection before they kill us all out here. — A reader

Well, there seems to have been problems for a while, but these last two mayors have been following the laws about notifying customers. The problems at Trenton Water Works go back for a long time. Mayors come and go, but aging infrastruc­ture and a department that is woefully understaff­ed will take a while to fix. I believe the new TWW director when he says

that progress is being made, but that it will all be incrementa­l steps toward being at 100% on staffing, and being fully staffed and funding repairs will reduce or eliminate the violation letters that you’re getting.

— Ed Note

Trail of Tears

I see The Trail of Tears is in

the news. They’re somehow trying to twist that around that Trump was insensitiv­e because it used the word “Trail.” But the interestin­g thing about the Trail of Tears was that the supreme court ordered that the Cherokee could not be removed. But President Andrew Jackson ordered the military to remove them and the military followed orders and they were removed. So President

Trump can declare an emergency and close the border and just ignore the Supreme Court like Andrew Jackson and I don’t really see a problem with it.

— A reader

Are you really referring to the Trail of Tears as a positive thing? WTF?

— Ed Note

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