This is the most unbalanced thing I think I've ever read in the Post-Dispatch:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/co ... 66963.html

They want to hold McKee accountable to maintain derelict buildings in his Northside Regeneration area when the issue of abandonment and neglect has gone on for decades, mostly in north St. Louis, without a peep from the editorial board?

Where have they been? Addressing abandonment and decay only matters when there's a big federal project at stake?

Thanks for caring, Post Dispatch editors!

You seem very apathetic towards saving the northside. So let me get this straight...Since no one cared before no one is allowed to care now?

You seem very apathetic towards saving the northside. So let me get this straight...Since no one cared before no one is allowed to care now?

I think you have me very misunderstood.

The Post Dispatch has witnessed from its Tucker Street offices the white flight and sprawl-driven abandonment and decay of N. City for the past 60 years.

Today, they make a federal case out of the city's lack of code enforcement due to the possibility of losing NGA, linking it to the damage brought on neighboring residents?

They're a little late to the party.

Where they miss the boat is the universal nature of the problem. Focusing the narrative around Paul McKee and NGA does a disservice to places like the Ville, Hamilton Heights, Hyde Park, Gravois Park, Dutchtown, and other neighborhoods, which, frankly, bear a lot more of the brunt of this situation than do the remaining residents of JVL.

The PD needs to get on board with the entire vacancy and abandonment issue in St. Louis, just as they have with Ferguson, Better Together, and the troubled school system. I think maybe they haven't just because it's so damn tough. But maybe it really doesn't matter anyway. Newspapers are more and more irrelevant every day.

Unfortunately, we don't get much more attention to these issues on dominant TV or radio, either. Seems the best place to get current info on trends in communities is via social media and blogs like this.