Letters | An Rx for white-flight-itis

IN RESPONSE to letter-writer Ted Lahm's May 23 question: Now what do we do about the white flight from the city at the rate of 16,000 people each year for the last 15 years?

Here are a few of my suggestions:

1) Pick up the trash from most of the dirty streets in our city. 2) Fine homeowners who keep their lawns and streets full of litter. (If you don't believe that it'll work, ask our friends in Lansdowne.)

3) Diversify all Philadelphia neighborhoods, because we don't live in an all-white world. 4) Let's adopt the stop-and-frisk plan that Michael Nutter wants to implement.

And . . . 5) Fix the darn school system!

Bhoke S. Lumumba, Philadelphia