Opinion

I enjoyed the brief respite allotted me by Dominion Day - I hope you did as well.

Fire up the bulldozer, baby. City administration is finally getting serious about cracking down on problem properties in the downtown core and across the city.

We live in a society where there is constant activity. People are busy, our cell phones are buzzing, our televisions and radios are blaring, we're surfing the internet or focused on the latest online game.

Ken Dawson was born in Vancouver in the year of 1923, moved to Prince George in 1961 and started a very successful career as a vocational school welding teacher at the College of New Caledonia.

A Citizen reader called last week and left a message on my voicemail. Unfortunately, I got all huffy and deleted it with righteous indignation, rather than taking the caller, who was good enough to leave his name and number, more seriously.

Ah, summer. Time to empty your head, fill your cooler and recharge the batteries. Nothing on the horizon but day after carefree day of Huck Finn-ing down the river/surfing YouTube. Stretch out on the couch, turn on the television and ...

Jordan Bateman from the self-proclaimed Canadian Taxpayers Federation (members: zero) has again weighed in with advice for cities .

Nanaimo is slated to be the next B.C. city do undergo a core review of its operations. City bureaucracies are a bit like junk drawers; they need a good purging every once in a while.

A name is an identity, just as much as a face or a fingerprint is, and like all these things, a name tells a story of the past and the present.

I have been babying my garden this year like it will expire, bolt or disappear if I don't watch it continuously. Like many new gardeners, I am constantly surprised that what I planted early in the spring has grown.