Opinion

Pine Valley Golf Course causing more city trouble? Gee, I wonder why? I'm not allowed to take my golf car on that "seniors" course and they won't rent me one either.

Doctor shortage? What doctor shortage? There were 831 more doctors billing the Medical Services Plan under the general-practitioner category last year than there were 10 years ago. That's a 17 per cent increase.

This week's Citizen online poll, courtesy of The Atlantic magazine, asks which current behaviour will be unthinkable 100 years from now? As of Friday morning, there were 274 responses (the poll will remain open through the long weekend).

A few years ago my nephew, a college dropout, had just the wrong combination of brilliant and cocky, which left him a little short on cash and a lot long on cockamamie during a family vacation to Israel.

I am writing to compliment the City of Prince George and each and every one of its employees. So very glad the roads are being repaired but more over, the city is beautiful - the Civic Centre, Canada Games Plaza, the Aquatic Centre and the Library.

The continuing heat and drought in British Columbia has more than a few people hot under the collar.

City council is looking over its collective shoulder, wondering just what Eric Allen is going to do next.

We know a great deal about the tools left by our ancestors but not much about their culture. Thirty thousand years ago, did humans look up at the night sky and wonder? I would like to believe they did.

My grandfather would smile and nod a lot. Now I understand. I wasn't always hard of hearing. It sneaked up on me. People who mumbled and failed to enunciate their words properly increasingly began to annoy me.

It is beneficial from time to time to step back and consider what we have today. As long as I can remember people have criticized governments and yet, today, we have a good lifestyle. Governments as a whole have done a good job.