Worse than graffiti?

Have you noticed the graffiti that seems to becoming more commonplace in places around downtown Monroe. The city is doing a pretty good job of keeping the graffiti covered up along the riverwalk. It seems like it's one of the few places where gutless little cretins can deface public property. It makes you wish that instead of the new pavilion in Loranger Square, they'd bring back the public stockades.
Speaking of graffiti, how long do we think it will be before some idiot scrawls something on the new pavilion or the new brick of the new bank building?
Also speaking of graffiti, did you hear the one about the downtown business owners who decided to paint a pleasant mural on the brick along W. Front St. It's the north wall of the Brent's Locksmith building. Upstairs, some game women are trying to make a go of an art gallery downtown. Of course, they figured sprucing up the outside of the building might help. Word is that someone -- we won't mention who it might have been in city hall -- decided that the decoration didn't fit in with the facade guidelines of the city. Word is that someone was going to be forced to paint over the mural. Word is that the new city manager Mr. Brown came to the rescue and decided it would be better to have that mural than just the piss stains from street people, alcoholics and others whose only purpose in life seems to be to find a public place to loiter. Heck, at least when the city hotel still was operating a lot of these people had some place to stay out of sight.
BTW, there's no truth to the vicious rumor that the new city manager is related to Don Brown, the owner of the city hotel who has been refusing to fix up his building to meet city standards.