Creating something out of nothing: Hay-on-Wye town, UK Until 1961, Hay-on-Wye was a fairly unprepossessing Welsh border town, dependent on declining farming and agricultural markets for its economy. Richard Booth owned the half-ruinous castle and started to deal in second-hand books, which quickly filled up the castle, and ...

General Housekeeping Official Plan Amendment The first in a series of Official Plan Review Official Plan Amendments (OPA) is scheduled to be TABLED at the Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) on Thursday August 19, 2010 and will be considered at the Thursday September 16, 2010 PAC meeting. Please note that any members ...

Hello everyone.  It's been a while since I logged in (took me 8 tries to get the password right) for various reasons.  I'm not going to be blaming anyone for my absense, so if that's how you get your jollies, you're going to ...

After a recent thread that I removed from scaledown had some yo-yo trying to psychoanalyze me I had a conversation with a friend who knows somewhat about these things and asked him: Why do I do it? Why do I let myself be reduced to these schoolyard tactics? Why do I feel a ...

The tweet is cryptic!, Tom Lucier is elusive and teasing on his Facebook page! What is going to happen? It all sounds exciting! The House is now occupied! Downtown Windsor, look out!...

Via: Urbanphile Sunday, July 18th, 2010 It’s Time for America to Get On the Bus New York magazine recently had a fantastic story on NYC’s plan to focus on improving the quality of its bus system: Buses are what most people think of when ...

I half jokingly in an email this morning to a friend, suggesting that I should write a blog about B.A.C. - The Age Before Air Conditioning and growing up in the 1950's on the east side of Windsor, when we didn't even know ...

No, that's not a spelling mistake in the title, let me explain. I was in the Phog Lounge last night on the eve of Canada Day and the first night of a three week vacation, devouring Frank's great Poutine, drinking Guinness and talking with friends ...