In the end, the Mayor is only a single vote on Council, though he (all candidates are men) certainly has a bully pulpit and more power in important day-to-day dealings with the civil service.
September 24, 2010
The property developer did cause a few jaws to drop when he closed his brief remarks by attempting to lead the crowd of unionists in a rousing chorus of Solidarity Forever.
September 17, 2010
City Hall has a responsibility to people and families (taxpayers that we are) who live downtown to do its best to ensure the core doesn’t turn into a wasteland of boutique stores and high-priced restaurants.
August 24, 2010
I started “taking the paper” – as my grandmother used to say – when I moved to Kingston 21 years ago.
August 11, 2010
August 9 dawned sultry and hot, with a heavy mist ghosting over the low-lying fields surrounding Kingston’s Disneyesque Collins Bay pen. Crickets chirped as the cows were milked for the last time at the adjacent Frontenac Institution’s prison farm. Born on that farm, they were headed for a stifling ride along the 401. The cops,… [Read more…]
July 4, 2010
I went downtown to buy stationery and mail a letter the other day. Once upon a time you could go to Mills Office Supplies at Bagot and Brock (now an army recruiting outfit) before you did your post office business. No more. Now there’s no competition in the office supply racket, so I have to… [Read more…]
July 4, 2010
Kingston boosters have lots of claims about the things that make this place unique. Fort Henry was home to nineteenth century remittance men, dissolute toffs from upper crust families paid by their Victorian parents to stay away from home. It remains a 21st century tourist attraction. But other cities from Quebec City to Niagara-on-the-Lake boast… [Read more…]
October 21, 2010
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