Letters: Mayor’s wife has city hall parking spot? Come on.

Why doesn’t Mayor Craig Greenberg come out and say what role his wife Rachel Greenberg has with the city if any? And if she isn’t employed by the city or getting a salary as stated by Kevin Trager Greenberg’s spokesman what’s she doing with an office and prime parking at City Hall? This type of political favoritism is the reason most people don’t trust politicians and they assume they are doing things for their self interest instead of the community. This is a easy fix, come out and explain her role if in deed she has one for his administration.

Larry Warner, 40299

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City hall gig for mayor’s wife doesn’t pass the smell test

Human nature being what it is, some are prone to seek self-importance under varying disguises. Others with a lack of intestinal fortitude or perhaps diminished sense of the moment, turn a blind eye to the obvious train coming down the tracks. Toot, toot Mr. Mayor. A whiff of nepotism is like the old Stockyards after a rain. The smell does not go away.

Robert Korkin, 40205

Not nepotism: Rachel Greenberg's presence in City Hall is a positive thing for Louisville.

What in the world is going on with the Gene Snyder Freeway I-265?

I'm beginning to think that it is cursed due to the several fatal car accidents and all the construction between Beulah Church Road and Billtown Road. For someone who travels the freeway twice everyday as I do it is very unnerving. Between dodging orange barrels and drivers barreling down on my back bumper, it almost makes me want to avoid the Snyder all together, but the surface streets are just as bad with rough patches, potholes and careless drivers paying more attention to their phones than their driving. Whatever we can do do lift the curse of the Gene Snyder Freeway, let's do it and soon.

Tonya Isbell, 40291

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The Highview Development is out of control

I read with interest Bailey Loosemore's article on Leisure Development's plans to develop almost 14 acres of open space in Highview. This development plan is one of many assaults on Highview and the surrounding area lately. Many of our Highview/Fern Creek neighbors are agog at the audacity and fervor with which developers are destroying every last bit of green space we have. They seem to be driven by an obsession of greed that will not bode well for anyone alive today. Great stands of trees one after another along Beulah Church, Watterson Trail, and Fegenbush have already been destroyed. I wonder at the short-sightedness of people who seem to be so driven to destroy trees. I wonder if they ever stop to think for one second that our planet stands RIGHT NOW at the breaking point. Trees are our salvation. Without trees and green spaces, the children and grandchildren of these same developers will suffer and they alone will bear the responsibility for the inability of human beings to breathe on this planet. Trees provide the oxygen to live here. They are our life. They are our breath. I am speaking directly to these developers: Your actions will come back to you and haunt you and the generations after you through sickness, asthma and all the other effects of a toxic environment. In the meantime, I encourage each and every one of us to use the properties we still have in creating habitats of Kentucky native plants, shrubs and trees that serve the highest numbers of pollinators. Without pollinators, there is no life on the planet. Without native plant species, there is are no pollinators. There are no native bees, no butterflies, no birds, no wild areas for wildlife to survive. That is where we are right now. Take action in any way that you can. And you will bear the blessing and not the curse that is to come for the destructive actions being perpetrated upon our planet by developers.

Anne Milligan, 40291

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This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Mayor Greenberg's secrecy over his wife's volunteering breeds mistrust