Fifty-two years ago I moved to Anchorage, and in that time I’ve never seen such horrors in road maintenance, in particular snow removal. The workers are to be thanked, as is the director.
Dave Bronson, just weeks ago, bragged in a rare public message that he had it all under control and no more snow removal problems. Now we have more problems than his past two winters.
Bronson apparently learned nothing except to give phony messages hoping we are too stupid to see the facts. In this he mirrors his idol, Donald Trump.
Instead of wasting millions on harassment of employees, payment to those he fired, hiring lawyers to defend his acts and bragging he’s saving so much money for taxpayers, he could and should have purchased more snow removal equipment and given incentives to those working in road maintenance.
Taxpayers and workers could, in protest to the worst mayor I’ve seen in my 52 years in Alaska, just take the day off and stay home every day schools are closed for weather or snow problems in Anchorage. That would be justified, as a protest to Bronson’s inability to do anythingexcept create problems.
— Linda Sharp
Anchorage
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