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How is a slowing economy affecting you?
Posted 7/17/2008 12:00:00 AM

Have any of your spending habits changed as a result of all the doom and gloom economic news coming out this week?    I've cut way back on all unnecessary spending and for the first time in my life I'm actually strategizing my driving routes to try and save gas.   Next I'll be clipping coupons, stocking up on canned goods and keeping my lights off all the time.   Hey come to think of it...Those are pretty GOOD ideas anyway.   The thing that I'm finding out is just how much money I'm whizzing away every month by not considering these things.     I might just make it through this recession after all.  Oh sorry...I mean economic slowdown.
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Flouride in drinking water. Keep it.
Posted 7/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
City Council understandibly is looking for ways to save tax dollars and so have decided to look at the idea of nixing flouride from the municipal water supply.   I say leave it in.  After hearing the opinions of several dental professionals on the show today, I don't need anymore convincing.  When they point to a world symposium that is already sounding the alarm over rising incidents of cavities in the mouths of our children then that's good enough for me.   You see many of us have switched to non flourinated bottled water and now dentists are seeing kids as young as three showing up with a face full of cavities.   Even at a million bucks a year to put flouride into the water supply, you're talking 4 bucks per child in Hamilton.   Seems like a bargain to me.   As for the one time capital expense to update the water plant of ...

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Hold the presses...Lister will Lustre
Posted 7/2/2008 12:00:00 AM
Well well well...put everyone at a cottage, in a Florida retreat or on a golf course and look what you can get done in this town.    The City powerbrokers got it together just in time and LIUNA took a big leap of faith to make the re-development of the Lister block go ahead.  Great last minute drama worthy of a made for TV movie.    Glad it's happening.   Congrats to Mayor Eisenberger,  and LIUNA for getting it done.    
Now we can move forward and start building for an exciting present and positive future in downtown.   A great investment for the City and a great image shifter for the city as well.    Everyone wins on this deal.
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