No Need to Secede
* This whole Valley secession thing bothers the heck out of me. Is there a hidden agenda here--something I haven’t been told? I’ve yet to be given one logical reason for a separation from Greater Los Angeles. Where is the tax base to come from that will provide Val-leyites with a better life as a separate city?
On the same page as your Valley secession article was an article on the increase in Los Angeles Unified School District enrollment, much of it the children of recent immigrants living in the northern part of the Valley. Are these the people the secessionists hope will provide the taxes to support a new city? I doubt it. We need Los Angeles as much as Los Angeles needs us.
JEAN SAPIN
Sherman Oaks
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