As a ?former? higher education reporter, I very happy to see higher education affordability being discussed in the context of spiralling inflation and targeted financial aid. President Obama is threatening to tie affordability to financial aid [http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/147115868/whats-behind-the-rise-of-college-tuition] . It could be empty election…
A great citizen photo of police interrupting dinner to stop crime Thursday evening, one of the Hamilton police ACTION teams interrupted their dinner at The Baltimore House to break-up what they thought was a drug deal in progress. What looked like a drug deal turned out to be one youth…
Software Hamilton is achieving great success with the February 9, 2012 democamp turnout the largest thus far. Ryan McGreal’s keynote “Services-First: A Better Way to Build a Web Application” was inspiring and a helpful reminder for a journohacker of the fundamentals of web development. Nick Tomkin of Orbital’s…
I emailed my Ward Councillor, Brian McHattie, as a private citizen on Tuesday expressing concerns about the ongoing power interruptions in my area of Hamilton. It seems not a week goes by without some interruption in the west downtown district. Many of them occur during clear weather with little wind.…
I’m almost ready to release the Hamilton ward map I’ve been working on the past week. As many of my readers are aware, I’ve been requesting this data for 18 months without success. Using the Statistics Canada census tracts as a skeleton, I’ve been able to…
Route 4 Bayfront SB from Nash/King. East on King, right, south on Greenhill continue to EOL. NB , regular route to Greenhill and Quigley, left on Quigley, right on Veevers, left on Greenhill to King. Left on King to Nash and regular route. Route 5 Delaware, 5E. EB Regular route.…
Ever have those days in which your mood swings, you know why, but you can’t seem to fully control it? Today’s one of those days for me. Thankfully there are people who help make it better by brightening me day. I had the pleasure of meeting one at…
Ever have those days in which your mood swings, you know why, but you can’t seem to fully control it? Today’s one of those days for me. Thankfully there are people who help make it better by brightening me day. I had the pleasure of meeting one at…