C-J focuses/obsesses with ice storm debris removal

On the one hand, I can see bringing attention to this issue. It is absurd that the government cannot get this done quicker.

But it is equally absurd to rely on the government to accomplish this-- rather than contracting it out or having private individuals take care of their own debris.

Moreover, it's funny to see the C-J describe this, daily, as "roadside outrage". Their sense of proportion-- from rating Obama's performance to dealing with branches to a wide array of other public policies-- is badly out of whack.

Here's a letter to the editor of the C-J on the same topic...

It saddens me that the newspaper is choosing to daily vent its outrage on an issue that is so insignificant to humanity. I am outraged by many terrible injustices, famine, disease, unnecessary pain and suffering. I am not outraged by sticks on the side of the road. I have no knowledge as to the efficiency or lack thereof of the city to remove the debris.

It seems like they have put a lot of assets to work. I did feel outraged at an investor flipping a house in my lovely neighborhood who chose to remove every morsel of landscaping from the home he was remodeling and place it at the curb in a 6 foot high debris pile, none of it related to the storm....

It would be an interesting exercise to measure how much the debris on the side of the road has grown since the storm. Editorial outrage should not be wasted on sticks. It could also be directed to the number of city residents who resolved deferred tree maintenance issues with our communal dollars.

KRISTIN CRINOT Louisville 40205

You go, girl!