Opinion

As I was working at my dining room table early Monday morning, assembling the stories and photos for this week’s paper, some movement through the window beside me caught my eye.

My earliest memories of baseball revolve around the 1969 Chicago Cubs.

Examining the parkade situation, the cost of construction is $34 million, for 351 stalls, around $100k per stall. Assuming a 50 year life, the parkade needs to make $1,800 a day to break even. Current stall rates are monthly maximums of $120.

This last year has seen a plethora of statements along the lines of “No one could have predicted this” or “Who could have seen this coming?” Such sentiments have been offered by politicians, pundits, health professionals, and even our neighbours.

It was 2006, and I was in Bolivia, on my first adventure into the “developing world.

A 2013 study revealed that 90 per cent of inmates at the Regional Correctional Centre in Prince George identified having a brain injury. These inmates spent many years experiencing problems at home, school and in the community.

I recently showed Steven Spielberg’s classic film about the Holocaust, Schindler’s List , to a group of students.

Sometimes I catch myself thinking about my clients or staff and saying a quick prayer for them. It’s a habit I have fallen into over the past 35 years managing people and running businesses. Sometimes I wonder if it makes a difference.

Celebrating Valentine's Day this weekend by spending Saturday night with my lovely wife at a local hotel, away from the grown teenagers and the home that has been more office than home for nearly a year now.

Dear Prince George citizens,what is happening to our fair city? We are supposed to be living in a democratic society governed for the people, by the people, but it appears we are being governed by people whose only interest is in power itself.