How an Outsider Sees Sheffield

 

Was there ever a chance that anything positive would arise from Inspiration Landing? John Elkington once had to ask the town of Sheffield to clean up its trash. How about others who have visited the City on the Bluff?

Here's a comment from a reader now residing in a large state with what we here in Alabama would call a booming economy:

I don’t care if some tiny town leaves garbage out on the streets, because NO ONE is going to move into that space anyway. If there is a house for sale, then the Realtor can rent a commercial dumpster and probably will have to clean out the filthy house and then go to work on the grounds, and finally get the street cleaned up before they can lease or sell the house. It just stands to reason with most of Sheffield, and parts of ALL the other Quad Cities housing.

Not all our readers agree on what the central role of city government is. If sanitation is one of the foundations, then Sheffield is failing...