Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 20, 2008
One mayor of a municipality I covered for a small newspaper told me that no one new on council ever asked questions about the budget. Budgets for the municipality were under $30 million. Sure enough, budget time rolled around and the new councillors looked thoughtful, listened to the debate, but asked no questions. Why? There [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 17, 2008
Scribe Allan Fotheringham (in Canada all who write are writers; Foth is our only scribe) described his fellow Canadians as people who will, as pedestrians, stop on a sidewalk intersection in the middle of the night, no traffic coming, no one looking, and wait politely until the “walk” light comes on before crossing the street. [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 15, 2008
Looking for a video lead for this post. Found the best one on Aljazeera, of all places. Fed moves to deal with financial crisis, from Associated Press From Bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/index.html Headlines from Reuters include “Struggling to Survive” and “Wall Street mauled by Lehman bankruptcy, AIG fears” “Problems at Lehman spill over into several Canadian companies” [...]
