Nextdoor

This is a private online free service to engage residents in their own neighborhood boundaries to communicate with each other.  I have met newer residents and find them interesting.  Residents who are not obligated to the PTB.  Residents who will ask the same questions I have previously asked and received no answers.  These new residents will get answers and I am going to be pleased to watch their progress.  This service has 51 members at the time and hope the service will grow, we have 3000+ residents in our neighborhood, even an active 1000 on this service could have a big impact on the community as a whole.  If people will engage in conversation and find solutions to issues, we can take back our neighborhoods dignity.  We were a working class neighborhood with high dollar residents and property owners on the Western edge.  Our Alderman lived on the 4500 block of Gibson and I think the correct name is Eagleton, Senator Engleton, I may have the name wrong, but it was a fact we had a retired Senator on the Southside of 4500 Chouteau at Kingshighway.  He was a very good neighbor for the Neighborhood, as was our Alderman, back then.  Today's Residents coming into the area, are well educated, financially secure and independent thinkers.  I am looking forward to their actions.  I have even heard the word 'protest'.  Maybe we will get a new Alderperson after all! 
More residents are beginning to ask 'where is the money?'  Why have the sames issues been the same issues for more than 10 years? 
Why have vacant properties been allowed to sit abandoned for many years?
Why have Speculators been allowed to let property deteriorate into a tear down condition?
Why have the PTB been given such a veil of secrecy that construction is underway before the connecting property owners are even aware of what the new construction will be. Even if neighbors disagree, it's too late, everything is already in place and construction has begun. 

In this neighborhood only those that need to know have knowledge about future changes.  Even when the information is beginning to trickle down, the one who knows more than you, still can't share details, only that something is coming.  SECRET to everyone but the PTB.  It's been this way for years.  The PTB have their loyal supportors who are on various committee's to vote their way while representing the interests of the Neighborhood.  They don't represent my interests!!  I oppose theirs!
These new residents will have new eyes and ears to hold the PTB accountable for their deliberate destruction and devaluing of a prime neighborhood when they implemented their 50 year revitalization plan. (for the CWE)