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26 September 2005
Mail-in voting: more details; more evidence of major problems
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Candidates and their representatives received a briefing today on how the mail-in ballots will be counted on Tuesday. Here are some details:...
24 September 2005
And then there's this blog I just found...
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which should make the blood pressure over at Liam-land [aka Responsible Government League ]break through the sphygmomanometer cuff. The au...
Which historic general are you?
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These quizes seem to be growing in popularity among bloggers, so for some lighter weekend fair, why not give this one a try. Which historica...
23 September 2005
Mail-in vote follies continue
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Enjoy this little story from VOCM, quoting city clerk Neil Martin on how smurfily goes the mail-in voting for St. John's city council....
Wells unsure on taxes
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Over at the local website for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, one can find the results of its mayoral candidate survey. Her...
Why Connies don't get it. - Munsinger update
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Anyone pondering the lack of electoral success for the federal Conservative Party need think no more. This little post on a blog site favou...
Deficit? What infrastructure deficit? - updated
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Interesting to see that the president of the St. John's Board of Trade, Marilyn Thompson, is actually contradicting St. John's mayo...
22 September 2005
Read this, city mail-in vote officials!
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Architects of the St. John's vote-by-mail system could use this article . As of close-of-business Tuesday, a total of 25, 000 vote kits...
21 September 2005
The value of proofreading
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ok. So I know that typos creep into the Bond Papers. Sometimes they flood. But here is another genuine example of the value of proofreading ...
20 September 2005
Guerrilla campaigning
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Technology is a wonderful thing. This is a little 30 second spot Simon Lono generated for his municipal campaign. It focuses on the Duckwor...
What, me worry?
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[<--- Not Andy Wells] Our beloved mayor believes that everyone else running for city council doesn't know what he or she is talking...
19 September 2005
Water, water, everywhere...
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And running down Temperence Street. A water main break in the east end of St. John's has been sending water gushing down Temperence stre...
16 September 2005
How the Boor stole the election
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[With apologies to Dr. Seuss] Every Jawn down in Jawn-ville Loved their city alot... But the Boor who was mayor of Sin Jawn-ville did not! T...
15 September 2005
The new Tammany Hall
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No matter how one feels about the Memorial Stadium issue, one must surely be repulsed by the blatant manner in which Marie White and St. Joh...
14 September 2005
Andy Wells IS campaigning
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Contrary to his own claim that he had stopped campaigning, St. John's mayor Andy Wells is spending cash and campaigning actively. He'...
Your tax dollars in action
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Let's hope the Williams Family Foundation is footing the bill for this little bit of foolishness. If the premier is feeling the need to...
St. John's voting follies - the continuing saga
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St. John's city clerk Neil Martin continues to follow the fashion and is blaming Ottawa (Elections Canada) for some of the problems turn...
13 September 2005
City clerk on vote problems: missing the point
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St. John's city clerk Neil Martin is missing the point when he addresses concerns about the mail-in balloting system being used by the C...
Setting Mulroney straight
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Brian Mulroney has reared his head again, via Peter Newman's latest book, to blast all his old enemies in the profane way only Brian Mul...
Andy Wells - arrogant wookie mayor
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Andy Wells has decided to shut down his re-election campaign, comfortable in the knowledge that he has consistently bettered any of his comp...
Municipal election expenses
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There's a curious story in this week's Spindy on municipal election expenses in St. John's. Ron Ellsworth claims to have spent ...
12 September 2005
St. John's mail-in madness
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The first mail-ins ballots arrived in St. John's households. The problems are turning up rapidly. My parents received three ballots in ...
08 September 2005
Danny Williams: read the fine print
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Danny Williams thinks its good news that Abitibi Consolidated is selling off its interest in an Asian paper making operation . He thinks the...
Polling for political hacks
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Rather than read yet more coverage about a poll, flip over to Campaign Central and read a truly literate insight into what political types ...
Beloit College's Class of 2005 Mindset List®
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A few year's ago, this list became popular among those of us who are getting older and older. The list is handed to university instructo...
Supreme Court perspective
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For all those who persist in the nonsense about the great national slight that no Newfoundlander (or Labradorian) has been appointed to the ...
Bizarre Municipal Math
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This VOCM story on Mile One stadium has the treasurer Robert Bishop claiming that stadium management hopes to break-even or make a slight pr...
Doc O'Keefe - Get a grip
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Kevin Breen's municipal election signs have been defaced. Actually, the crafty vandals cut some of the signs in such a way that they had...
07 September 2005
Night of the Long Knives - Connie style
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Early media reports on Tuesday evening indicate as many as 15 people have been fired from the senior ranks of the Conservative Party of Can...
Connie TV spots - another view
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To go with this post from last week on the four new Connie TV spots, take this article in Macleans . Nobody seems to think they are a good ...
06 September 2005
A Telly twosome for Tuesday
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Check the online Telegram today which is actually carrying two really worthwhile stories. (They carry lots, but not all are online.) First i...
Ward 4 sign wars
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Courtesy of Greg Locke comes this picture of one of several Kevin Breen signs that have been altered by an unidentified gagster. Breen is th...
Nawlins - a minor correction, planning failures, and other news
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The Washington Post issued a correction in its story over the weekend that stated Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco had not declared a st...
05 September 2005
Prayer no substitute for preparation: province lacks emergency plan
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Almost four years after the September 11 incident and despite examples of natural disasters in this province and neighbouring provinces over...
The struggle for control in Louisiana
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Anyone following media coverage of rescue and relief operations in New Orleans will notice the ferocity of complaints by municipal and state...
04 September 2005
Typhoons hit Gander
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Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons made a stopover in Gander this past week and were captured on these digital images by local lawyer an...
02 September 2005
So much for rumours
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Rumours are usually nonsense and so it turned out this week that a couple of chatter-bits posted to the Bond Papers were...well...WRONG. The...
What drops from the back end of a male bovine?
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I don't know about the rest of my public relations colleagues, but people I know call a story like this BULLSHIT. Who gives a rats backs...
The best man for the job
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"Both the premier and I continue to believe that Andy Wells is the ideal candidate [to be chief executive officer of the Canada-Newfoun...
Hatching, matching and dispatching Mary Walsh
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This Macleans piece on Mary Walsh's little sitcom includes a quote from your humble e-scribe. The best part of the print version are p...
John Crosbie - Liberal sleeper
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John Crosbie, your long sojourn away from the Liberal Party will soon be over. Keep up the excellent work. You have managed to work for deca...
Efford staying - colour me surprised
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This release from John Efford was issued on September 1, 2005 at approximately 6:30 pm, Newfoundland Daylight Savings Time. Colour me surpr...
Fire the petroleum farce staff
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Some consumers in the province awoke this morning to the shock of an increase in gas prices of around 20 cents per litre. Those of us paying...
Parsons compensation increased
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This release yesterday from the provincial government announces an increase in compensation to Gregory Parsons. Mr. Parsons was wrongly c...
01 September 2005
The New Approach to hand-outs and whining
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Doubts about Loyola Sullivan's ability to grasp the picture beyond moving around digits on a page grows with this release on the feder...
Crap Talk dead?
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It may only be a rumour but there is talk around St. John's that Bill Rowe's Back Talk afternoon call-in show on VOCM will be dead i...
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