A little story first: Growing up as a kid, I saw myself become a weatherman or sports statistican. At age 6, I started reading both the weather forecast and sports section of The Hamilton Spectator every day. I can’t remember when I caught the political bug, but as many…
A little story first: Growing up as a kid, I saw myself become a weatherman or sports statistican. At age 6, I started reading both the weather forecast and sports section of The Hamilton Spectator every day. I can’t remember when I caught the political bug, but as many…
[](http://www.joeycoleman.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/2010-09-08.jpg)Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton SpectatorHamilton’s second longest service member of City Council may be defeated tonight.Chad Collins is…
An interesting thing happened this week [http://www.joeycoleman.ca/2010/10/ward-twos-geleynse-scores-endorsements/], Ward 1 Councillor Brian McHattie publicly declared his support for a candidate in another Ward. That was peculiar enough – rarely does an incumbent candidate get involved in races occurring in other wards. The fact they he stated…
LAST UPDATED 1430 EDT on 22 OCT 10 The City of Hamilton is using a professional lobbying firm to manage its lobbying efforts to secure additional federal funding for the Pan Am stadium which faces a funding shortfall of over $50-million. The firm representing Hamilton isStrategyCorp [http://strategycorp.com/main.…
A couple of my friends have been asking “Why all the coverage of Hamilton on your blog lately?” There are many reasons, but the primary reasons are to keep my journalism skills sharp and that I’m passionate about my home community. (Plus I’m a political nerd and our…
A few astute followers of my journalism noted a Google Map showing the location of vacant buildings [http://www.google.com/url?q=http://maps.google.com/maps%3Ff%3Dq%26hl%3Den%26geocode%3D%26q%3Dhttps:%252F%252Fspreadsheets.google.com%252Fpub%253Fkey%253D0AjJryB_E94f1dDNfUmZlRVI0Nk0telJYeUlrcFlPeGc%2526hl%253Den%2526output%253Dtxt%2526gid%253D0%…
Today I decided to make the futile effort of communicating with The Hamilton Street Railway to note a bus which decided to not pick up passengers. My conversation with the customer service representative ended with her saying “umm, whatever” to my complaint. Even by the low expectations I have of…