IS “ZERO TAX INCREASES” A ZERO-RATED PROMISE?
In the aftermath of the election a lot of people are left wondering if Joe Fontana can deliver on his promise to “freeze” taxes for 4 years. It’s a question that became even more pronounced after his successful campaign to unseat Anne Marie DeCicco-Best from the mayor’s chair than during the campaign itself.
If he had [...]
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Councillors and Contenders
Joe Fontana, Mayor-Elect of London
Defeated incumbent Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best scrubbed all of her slated media interviews on the morning after the election that brought her ten-year run as Mayor to a close. Granted, it would be a sad and boring undertaking to separately answer a dozen different reporters’ question about what she’s going to do now and she [...]
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Election
WHY JOE?
Elections are always interesting things to watch, and they can bring out both the best and the worst in candidates, campaign staff and constituents (and often do) but if we’re lucky the better instincts win out more often than not.
The London municipal election of 2010 will be remembered for many things, not the least of [...]
Hermaneutics
My Education in Civic PoliticsWith this issue the first incarnation of The Voice of London wraps up. We came online (and into your email box) the first Friday in March and except for one week’s holiday in the summer, we have faithfully returned every Friday since, bringing you coverage and commentary on the local political scene that has been [...]
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The Sad Decline of the Election Night After PartyWell, there have been no City Hall meetings to speak of in this election week but on the big night itself shortly after 10 p.m. I did cycle over to City Hall’s great white elephant of an anteroom, Centennial Hall, to watch the election winners and their supporters drift in for a little hullabaloo.
I haven’t [...]
The Voice of London
THE FUTURE OF THE VOICEThis is, as of this writing, the last regularly-scheduled political edition of the Voice of London.
We will publish once more, likely next week, but that piece will be concerned not with the future of our city or our politicians, but with the future of this publication.
As we have noted before, the money that was raised [...]
