{"id":26435,"date":"2017-11-24T03:39:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T03:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26435"},"modified":"2017-11-24T04:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T04:08:28","slug":"is-graffiti-abatement-still-on-the-citys-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26435","title":{"rendered":"Is graffiti abatement still on the city&#8217;s agenda?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17771921_BG1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26436\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17771921_BG1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17771921_BG1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17771921_BG1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Harpole became Amarillo&#8217;s mayor in 2011 after campaigning on a vow to rid the city of graffiti that was scarring private property.<\/p>\n<p>He orchestrated the launch of a program aimed at cleaning up buildings that were being &#8220;tagged&#8221; by gang members and would-be gang members.<\/p>\n<p>Then he left the mayor&#8217;s office earlier this year. The current mayor, Ginger Nelson, campaigned on a multi-faceted platform of issues ranging from economic development, to fiscal accountability, to beautification of our public rights-of-way. There are plenty of other issues, too.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall reading about graffiti abatement as I pored through Nelson&#8217;s list of municipal priorities.<\/p>\n<p>So, my question is: Did the graffiti abatement program vanish when Paul Harpole walked away from the mayor&#8217;s office?<\/p>\n<p>I hope that&#8217;s not the case.<\/p>\n<p>One mayor&#8217;s effort to rid the city of a nuisance should become part of the next mayor&#8217;s agenda as well. Don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2015\/06\/harpole-stays-the-course-on-graffiti-battle\/<\/p>\n<p>I thought Harpole had the right idea when he decided to take on the &#8220;artists&#8221; who deem it OK to deface other people&#8217;s property.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Nelson appears quite dedicated to her vision for making the city a better, more attractive place for its 200,000 residents. I believe part of her overall strategy needs to include her immediate predecessor&#8217;s aim to rid the city of graffiti.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Harpole became Amarillo&#8217;s mayor in 2011 after campaigning on a vow to rid the city of graffiti that was scarring private property. He orchestrated the launch of a program aimed at cleaning up buildings that were being &#8220;tagged&#8221; by gang members and would-be gang members. Then he left the mayor&#8217;s office earlier this year. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is graffiti abatement still on the city&#8217;s agenda?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[288,290,6754,1981,3519],"class_list":["post-26435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-ginger-nelson","tag-graffiti","tag-paul-harpole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26438,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435\/revisions\/26438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}