Opinion

The only thing wrong with Coun. Albert Koehler's idea of capping the general tax increase for the 2015 budget at 1.5 per cent is that he didn't go out and get four other members of city council to support him.

Doucette Realty real estate agent, Helen Leckie is a busy lady but never too busy to look after her mom. Helen has been in the real estate business for the past 16 years and is well known in the Prince George area.

There is an expression that says "health is wealth." As I advance into my 50s, I realize more and more the truth of this statement. Good health really is like money in the bank.

Water fluoridation is not an issue in 97 per cent of the world because 97 per cent of the world does not flouridate their water! The trend in Canada is to stop fluoridation.

On the marijuana file, the Conservatives should be careful of blowback.

The engineering firm that designed the Mount Polley tailings pond containment system that collapsed on Aug. 4 also designed a tailings dam that failed catastrophically in South America on Aug. 19, 1995.

I didn't mark my third Prince George-iversary this year. I suppose when you've lived somewhere for more than two years, it becomes the norm, as opposed to something special.

Can you keep a secret? The best show on TV that hardly anyone is talking about is The Americans, which airs on FX Canada. The second season wrapped up in June.

I am responding in part to Nathan Giedes's recent column on "what is a conservative" and in part to the recent Mount Polley mine disaster, and I am combining my response because I see some significant thematic overlap here.

What is an education worth? In the Victoria Times Colonist editorial which appeared in Tuesday's edition of the Prince George Citizen, the editor scolds the government for offering $40 a day per child to parents, stating that the government is showin