Letter to the editor

On April 7, 2010, in Latest News, by The News Staff

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Dear editor,

I am 77 years old and I read The Somerville News every time I can get one. I have a big grip for our Mayor Curatone. I lived in this beautiful city for about 53 years and now our mayor comes out with the permit parking on all the small streets which is awful for my family when they come over. By the time they come to drop my great grandchildren on the second floor and get the permit and go down, they already have a fifty dollar ticket, so they don't even come over.

If Somerville is such an American City there is no freedom and people can't rent their houses to nice students. They struggle to go to college and all they get is tickets because they are told to use bikes and they do and then they tagged them so it leaves a lot of land with their houses empty. I am 77 years old and I think they should not call this All America City, also some of the stores I used to go to are closing because of people can't afford to pay the permits or the fifty dollars because they live in other cities or other towns, it's a shame our all America City only wants only big businesses. I am sure I am not the only one that thinks this way. I will never vote for Mr. Mayor again and give is back the old Somerville that everybody loved but they are afraid to write about at least we paid our taxes and a small ticket now and then.

Name withheld per request of author