Archive for April, 2009
Today, we will be interviewing Dr. Robert Williams, the consultant working on Windsor's Ward Boundary Review. With the importance of this exercise for the political future of our city, and so many options available to us, we ...
How do we communicate or have a dialogue if everyone takes things so personal. Recently, what I thought was an innocuous comment on Facebook regressed to an infantile name calling by all parties. Was I at fault just ...
City Budget: Arts called essential to Toronto's vitality
It may seem counterintuitive at a time of local belt-tightening in the midst of a worldwide recession, but when Toronto city councillors passed the city's annual budget this week, they actually increased spending on culture.
Specifically, the $45 million budget for the ...
Hey ScaleDowners. I know you have your opinions about parking in our downtown, and now the DWBIA wants to hear them! I have no clue as to what they are going to do with the answers you give them, but I feel that ...
I was expecting more.
I had some personal deadlines, so I arrived at Windsor Water World precisely at 4:00 PM for the downtown episode of the Ward Boundary Review process. I ...
Sometimes I have to wonder if city officials even read the residential intensification analysis that was submitted as part of the official plan review and can be found here. Was that something written to fulfill a ...
I'm not sure whether everyone noticed the article from yesterdays Windsor Star, but our ever-busy local branch of the United Way is delving into the "Fix Windsor" conversations happening around our city.
Obviously, we feel that there is a tremendous ...
Today was all about determining what it will take to reinvigorate the mood here in our beloved city. We've determined that there needs to be a change in leadership to help ...
