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A quick follow up to a previous post about my Open Data inquiry. The inquiry response report came to Executive Committee yesterday and was well received by the mayor and other councillors who attended. In essence, the report says the City is working hard on opening up as much data as it can in keeping… Read More
The Journal‘s City Hall newshound Gordon Kent broke the story in today’s paper about some councillors’ decision of where to run on the new 12 ward electoral map (which will be effective as of the October 2010 election). It’s official: I plan to run in Ward 10 (‘barring death or dismemberment’ as Cllr. Anderson put… Read More
[This post is back dated to appear in order and correspond to the time. It was posted for reference in July of 2010.] Council’s budget deliberations in December of 2009 resulted in a 5% tax increase that came into effect for 2010. 2% of that was dedicated toward the fund established to fix sidewalks, curbs… Read More
What follows is my January contribution to the Edmonton Examiner’s gracious ‘Councillor Connection‘ column space which rotates among us. Since the Examiner is split run (there are, I believe, seven different versions, each localized to different parts of the city) people outside the South West would not see this. But I thought it might be… Read More
I had indicated the other day on this blog that I was hesitant about the proposed Stony Plain Road LRT alignment, at least the part between 156 St and 121 Street. I had a number of questions, most of which were addressed in one of the most cogent presentations I’ve ever seen from city staff.… Read More