Forum: "Mad as Hell" blogger -- our City Council monitor

Well hey, I said I was going to write in every couple of weeks to give my opinion on what council has or has not done right. I have had very little to write! Hello council... what have you been doing? Then again this could be a good thing. With council and the mayor on the QT I might even start buying the Whig again to see what else the Whig has blow...

Well where should we start this week? Well the city lost yet another court case over cleaning up a dump. Maybe there is a lesson here. The city should not build anything beside water because it will never increase in value and will cost more in the future to clean up. Sound familiar? For that matter the city seems to have the minus touch. Build it and they...

Is it not wonderful that the towns surrounding Kingston act like cities while Kingston's city officials show their true colours? Gananoque is wondering how to spend its casino winnings. How many people currently on Kingston's council were against the casino coming to Kingston? Yes, we know, Mayor Harvey, that you want to build a fancy rink, the...

Last week’s council meeting was slow and uninteresting, but what was interesting was the legal department’s insistence that because no one had filed a claim for damage from last September’s flooding, the city was in the clear. Wrong!! The council in all of its wisdom has made the PUC a private company wholly own by the City. People are not going to...

December 6, 2004 Electors' Mad as Hell blogger says Kingstonians should wake up ! Let’s get real here folks. Is everyone asleep at the switch? In this first of a series, our Mad as Hell blogger wonders why more Kingstonians aren’t weighing in on such important issues as the conduct of Queen’s students and City Council members. Your reaction is...