Without our local paper, there are literally tens of thousands of dollars we wouldn’t have known were being spent.
With the pandemic, I’ve been thinking a lot about where I live.
First, let’s get this out of the way: Kelly Road Secondary School was not named for John Kelly, at least not directly. I guarantee you that all of us have given more thought to this school’s name over the past few months than anyone did at the time it was originally created.
The lives lost on flight PS752 is a national tragedy, but also many local ones.
I got into my zone.
When people talk about the closure of small-town newspapers it’s often on the subject of things like holding city hall to account and how we need investigative reporting that no one else will do. Which is true. But I also think the simple act of chronicling a community is important, and that happens in the non-news sections of a paper as much as in the headlines.
Every once in a while you will come across a piece of writing that is able to frame an alternate worldview for you in a way that it provides a whole new lens through which to view any number of things. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve realized Anne Applebaums recent essay in The Atlantic, […]
Hello and happy Sunday! I’m spending the day enjoying the fall weather– getting the garden stuff done, mowing the lawn one last time, hanging the canoe. At work I’m primarily in election mode — I started this week with a preview of the race for mayor in Prince George on Monday, and I’m producing an all-candidates forum Tuesday […]
Some words on walking.
We choose whose perspectives we hear.
In 2012 I was veering towards burnout. I course-corrected. Then in 2018 I found myself on the same path.
Too many old white guys?
For the last few days, we’ve been hit by sudden deluges of rain. Glancing at it out the window one evening, a childhood memory was triggered. It’s a scene from Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, where it rains so hard the words wash off the page. Here’s the full sequence: “It was raining all […]
“This era of western politics will be remembered for the widespread realization that many many things we thought were inviolable rules were just niceties from which we figured no one would ever deviate.”
A collection of links to things I’m thinking about for September 9, 2018.
Ad nauseam
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