The whole Opera House / City Hall district has been filthy for 40, probably 50 years. They stopped rousting the bums from the parks around city hall in the 70s and, after that “tolerance,” the bums moved in, set up camps, did drugs, defected, urinated, left needles all around that area. The city has never done anything to clean it up. How a city can let those problems fester in one of the prettiest districts in the city is beyond me. It’s the SEAT of the city government, for crying out loud. It truly demonstrates how “liberalism is a mental disorder.”
Our daughter and boyfriend took us to “Brenda’s French Soul Food” at Polk & Eddy a few years ago. We parked at the garage by the Opera House and walked the four blocks to the restaurant. Never again. The food was wonderful, but we were so grossed out by the bums and filth all around that we vowed we wouldn’t return.
"defected"