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What exactly is so great about a plain grey wall?

Nancy Visser at the Dallas News' East Dallas Blog writes about a municipal response to graffiiti that looks worse than the blight it's covering up: The city responded quickly last week to a 311 note about graffiti on a retaining wall for the Central/I-45 overpass exit ramp to Bryan Street. A crew was out there the next day covering up the graffiti. Problem is the blue-gray paint over the brown stone wall looks almost as bad as the graffiti, and some of it washed off in the little bit of rain we had last week.This would be a good place to use the graffiti blaster on loan from Stripco to the city to prep for the Super Bowl. Read about it in this report by DMN city hall reporter Steve Thompson.Until recently, graffiti cleanup by the city has primarily been the responsibility of one man: Dwight Jessie, a city employee who has done the best he can with few resources...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 04, 2011 (boomark / email).