I share my alley mostly with renters on Lanvale Street who reside in four-bedroom rowhouses that have been cut up into apartments. The 64-gallon trash cans that the mayor is proposing we use cannot accommodate a full week of trash from these apartment houses.
And I predict that when the 64-gallon cans fill up, bags of trash will line the alley for days, until the next trash collection day rolls around.
The mayor's proposal is not in the best interest of city neighborhoods and should be rejected.
Jennifer Combs, Baltimore
Israeli settlers key obstacle to peace
The letter "Slain Israeli boy wasn't a settler" (April 8) was incorrect and disingenuous.
In fact, Israel has more than 450,000 illegal settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
These settlers, backed up by the Israeli police and military, commit heinous, violent acts against Palestinians daily. These acts include uprooting their olive groves and violent personal attacks.
The root cause of the violence in the Middle East continues to be Israel's brutal occupation and oppression of the Palestinians.
Instead of blindly supporting Israel, the U.S. should pressure it to end this occupation by cutting off the billions in military aid we wastefully give Israel every year.
Ray Gordon, Bel Air
