It was a field day for media today in trying to report once again on the very complicated Olympic village project. You could tell people were a little overwhelmed by the material today, as city manager Penny Ballem gave an update on the project and presented the KPMG audient results that had been ordered last […]

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I’m just analyzing the information this myself, but here is the city information that came out this morning with details on where the Olympic village is at, what interest rates have been negotiated with the Olympic-village developers, and what the audit report has to say. City ended up giving Millennium Developments a bit of a […]

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It’s relatively quiet out there for a minute, so for those of you feeling a lack of things to read (and, really, if you’re at this blog site, you’re clearly trolling aimlessly around looking for something/anything to lay your eyeballs on — next you’ll be googling your old flames from high school), here are some […]

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I can hardly wait for the day that everyone in the media has to post their income tax returns online, so that we’re on an equal footing with government employees. In the meantime, for those of you who love this stuff, here is the employment contraact for our recently hired deputy city manager from Chicago […]

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An alert reader (as funny writer Dave Barry always used to say about his contributers) sent me a link to this very funny story, the squabbling in the States over our Olympics after Fox’s always delightful Glenn Beck claimed on air that Vancouver lost $1 billion on them. Guess no one told him they haven’t […]

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Okay, folks, I don’t know WHAT is going on out there, but clearly civic politics has become the hot scene in blogworld. My stats for September show that this blog hit the 90,000-views mark for the first time since I started last August. (90,242 to be exact) And the number of local-politics blogs continues to […]

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Here’s my Globe story on the efforts of Vancouver councillors and, I should say, SFU prof Kennedy Stewart, to get a motion passed at the Union of B.C. Municipalities supporting limits on campaign fundraising and spending. That’s what Premier Gordon Campbell said is needed before his government will think about setting any new rules. The […]

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Oh, what the heck, while I’m at it … here’s another fun very-Vancouver thing to do on Sunday, before going to the view-corridor debate on Monday. See notice below. The only thing this tour is missing by the way is a swing by the new public art at the 25th Avenue Canada Line station. Has […]

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I don’t promote every debate on urban issues in this city, but this one seems like a can’t-miss to me. It’s also so delightfully Vancouver. Can you imagine another city where people would turn out to listen to an argument about preserving views? Views on Views: Perspectives on view corridors in Vancouver In partnership with […]

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Apparently, I’m allowed to publicize this as of 1:01, so here goes. This the latest from city hall: Vancouver: “Green Capital.”  Get the double meaning? I hope so. I await your scathing comments on how this is just another EcoDensity campaign … or not. Mayor outlines ‘Vancouver Green Capital’ economic strategy for Vancouver VANCOUVER—At an […]

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