In an amazing leap of reasoning, Ward 7 incumbent Walter Lonc has been suggesting to voters they shouldn’t vote for another candidate because, as a teacher, he couldn’t attend daytime council or committee meetings.
To the civic-minded, well-meaning people who volunteered to sit on the task force to determine city council salaries:
First, thank you for sacrificing your time and energies on what is likely to prove a thankless task. You are to be commended for doing so.
Second, please don’t think the poor turnout at your public meeting earlier this [...]
Council’s somewhat surprising decision not to shift higher water rates onto business just goes to show you that old dogs can sometimes learn new tricks. I confess I thought they would opt for the easy out and lift the ‘burden’ of the inequity between residential and other rates (about $3.33 per month for the average [...]
The roster has finally been set for the “team” that will make recommendations as to the proper level of pay London city council members should receive.
Board of Control’s list includes Don Bryant, representing the Chamber of Commerce, Sandy Levin representing the Urban League, Jennifer King, representing “the [...]
In all the information, partial information and misinformation that has been flying through the air regarding the tax problems of the Stiller Centre, one key element has generally been ignored by most politicians and commentators (the exceptions being Councillor Roger Caranci and Voice Editor Herman Gooden- if anyone else brought it up and I missed [...]
