Warner takes another walk down Main St.

It’s been at least 20 years since you have seen a Stuart Warner byline in the Beacon Journal, but it was there today on the Op-Ed page in a column headlined “A walk down Main Street 24 years later.”

As it turns out, it was a defense of Mayor Don Plusquellic but also a tribute to a city he left to go to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He’s now also out of there.

Warner recalled a BJ column he wrote in October, 1985 about 14 months before Plusquellic became mayor.

“I counted at least 52 businesses gone bust that day — just between Cedar and Market.” Warner writes. . “City leaders did their best Claude Raines impression. They were shocked, shocked. How could this have happened right before their eyes? Poor vision, perhaps?”

And now, he writes:

“I've been gone from Akron for a long time now, but after reading all these stories about the attempt to recall the mayor, it seemed fitting to walk the Main Street walk again.

“And this time, all I saw was progress.”