Times Herald-Record
How about creating $15-per-hour jobs to clean up the disgusting litter that lines our roadways, suggests Donna Somogyi of the Town of Newburgh? That would jive with President Biden’s support for a higher minimum wage in this country that desperately needs jobs, she says.
Plus, I might add, the clean-up could be part of Biden’s infrastructure plan. After all, “There is no Planet B,” as Somogyi’s T-shirt says. That’s why her husband, Steve, has been doing his own clean-up walks for some 30 years.
The state should create a commissioner of litter cleanup, says Jack Flynn of Sparrowbush. Not only would this official design and buy equipment to clean up the plastic bags, cups and containers that make our countryside such a mess, she could order state workers to do emergency cleanups. Flynn, who has previously suggested that a litter-eating vacuum be attached to the state’s grass-cutting equipment, says that to thoroughly do the job, “towns and coun