Pseudo-Intellectual

Here my favorite Hallerism that does not appear outside her writings in any sociological writing.

"social service ghettoization" - no evidence to back this up. I refer blog readers instead to the Chair of Worcester State's Sociology Department whose new study actually shows that social services in one area of District 4 are :

supported by neighbors
don't detract from property values
don't add to crime

She also has referred to addicts as "social misfits", and we cannot forget her most famous declaration, that she was the only "legitimate person," walking down Main Street.

I recommend a focus on absentee landlords, who have been ignored while social service agencies have been lambasted.


Lynne Simonds for District Four