Tim McCabe retires as General Manager of Planning and Economic Development next Wednesday and it will be at least three months before his replacement is announced. Current General Manager of Community and Emergency Services Joe-Anne Priel will step in as Acting General Manager of Planning and Economic Development. An acting…
Hamilton’s Public Works Committee approved all items on their agenda today. Most items were approved without debate. A presentation by Lake Avenue Drive resident John Vesprini regarding poor drainage on the Stoney Creek street without storm sewers was referred to the Acting General Manager of Planning to visit the…
Hamilton book reviewer and writer Jessica Rose [http://twitter.com/NotMyTypewriter] is participating in rabble.ca’s Eat Local Challenge. Sunday, she wrote about the charms of Hamilton’s Farmers’ Market [http://www.notmytypewriter.com/2013/10/buying-local.html] and how it is the place to get local food without…
Hamilton book reviewer and writer Jessica Rose [http://twitter.com/NotMyTypewriter] is participating in rabble.ca’s Eat Local Challenge. Sunday, she wrote about the charms of Hamilton’s Farmers’ Market [http://www.notmytypewriter.com/2013/10/buying-local.html] and how it is the place to get local food without…
A rare “Hamilton Wire” link to a story in British Columbia where the province is seeing a decrease in traffic using a toll bridge over the past five years, despite a forecast that said traffic would increase. With facts showing a decrease, planner merely increased their future forecasts. Go over…
The U.S. Government Shutdown is an interest case-study in false neutrality by the media, each side is to blame, or no one is to blame, or the persons behind the decisions that lead to the shutdown are ignored. As Dan Froomkin [http://twitter.com/froomkin] best put it, it…
It was a busy week at City Hall last week with both Planning and General Issues Committee meetings. From those meetings, here are two highlights from the week. Positive Highlight of the Week Goes to Ferguson A lengthy (and frustrating) Planning Committee meeting on Tuesday, during which Councillors spent hours…
As of September 30, 2013, the Hamilton Fire Department responded to 19649 calls this year. The most common call type is medical with the Fire Department responding to 13,315 times. “Alarm Conditions”, when a fire alarm is activated, is a distant second at 1568. There have been 276 structure…