What's the future of Slack Plaza?

Nanya Friend, editor and publisher of the Charleston Daily Mail asks, Well, where should Slack Plaza go?

Workers, shoppers and others are using the plaza for what it was originally intended, to walk from the older area of downtown to the mall.

Bus riders, too, are doing what they are supposed to do.

But whoever planned the space obviously wanted it to be more than that.

If it isn’t working out — and it’s had a long trial — perhaps the plaza should simply be reduced in size and the space put to some other use.

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My Newest Addiction

Justin.TV

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Slack Plaza Update

Turns out the trees in Slack Plaza were removed because they had, "became a problem and were losing limbs."

"They reached the end of their useful life,” Mary Jane Vanderwilt, chairwoman of the Municipal Beautification Commission tell the Charleston Gazette.

About a dozen Bradford pears at Slack Plaza have been cut down, chopped up and shredded this week. The city plans to plant new trees there, but possibly not until the park is redesigned at Mayor Danny Jones’ request to eliminate friction between people who walk through and those who sit in the park.

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Problems in Slack Plaza are not new

Yesterday the Charleston Daily Mail ran a story quoting Mayor Danny Jones says Spikes might not be enough for downtown park. As this 1984 article in the New York Times shows, problems in Slack Plaza are not a new thing. At that time Mayor Mike Roark installed cameras to help deter vandalism and insure public safety along Slack Plaza and Brawley Walkway (AKA Fife Street).

Yesterday afternoon the city began to take down trees in the park, but it is unclear what the plan is for the space.

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Shorts

The GAZZ blog ArtAttack reports the monthly ArtWalks now has its own website thanks to the fine folks at The Purple Moon.

The Parthenon reports on minor problem Marshall University Computing Services had with Daylight Saving Time patches, including the common problem of Microsoft Outlook appointments being off by one hour.

A few weeks after the appearance of two WV bloggers show Bristol Broadcasting has given the Jerry Waters Radio the ax.

Bob Coffield at Health Care Law Blog has a post on WV's E-Prescribing Bill that almost passed.

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Delish Delayed

Virgil has run into a dispute with CURA about his exterior design the Charleston Gazette reports this morning. The high fence, blue paint and maroon façade depart from plans CURA approved last summer.

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MarsEdit update

MarsEdit has been updated. Changes include: "Blogger Support! Autodetect of a Blogspot blog should now detect "New Blogger". I'm much happier now that I have this tool back and working again. I want to say a big thank you to Brent Simmons and Daniel Jalkut. You should see me posting more.

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Twitter

Yes I have a Twitter account, but I'm only giving out updates to friends. You can add me here: http://twitter.com/oncee.

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Get Busy Radio

My and Blair's appearace on Get Busy Radio is now up over on the Get Busy Radio site. It doesn't sound as bad as I feared.

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Check out the new the Appalachian Knitter's Guild blog

Check out the new the Appalachian Knitter's Guild blog. It just launched today. It's called Charleston Knitters, but it was started by Appalachian Knitter's Guild president Blair to document the groups knitting projects and to share ideas.

In the interest of full full disclosure I should let you all know that Blair is my fiance. She is also a very talented knitter.

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Get Busy Radio

Blair and I will be on Get Busy Radio Friday night at 9 pm EST. We will be talking about Twitter and some other stuff.

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