Hiring a new CAO not for the faint of heart
If ever there was a time for mayor and council to acknowledge their limitations, this is it. A stopper needs to be put in any delusions that hiring a new chief administrative [Continue]
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My two lives with City CAO Randy Diehl
Whenever Randy Diehl gets really cheesed off with somebody, his first impulse is to reach for the phone. After resisting that temptation, he writes a scorching memo or email. [Continue]
The mind boggles at possibilities for 2012
I don’t know the same things you don’t know I don’t know, I just don’t know And I forget the same things you forget But you predict what surely hasn’t happened yet [Continue]
A very merry Whatever-you-would-like-to-call it
One thing for which I am profoundly grateful, on this, the day before Christmas, is the paucity of the now-traditional hair pulling over what to call the “festive [Continue]
Lest we forget, on the road to Alexandria
A year ago today, Syd and I were rumbling along on a bus to Alexandria as the hour approached 11 a.m. I was thinking about Remembrance Day ceremonies back home. “We [Continue]
Behind Closed Doors — Life at City Hall Chapter 10
CHAPTER 10 — BEING MAYOR This is Chapter 10 in a series of articles — which I started in 2008 — written for this blog about my years as the mayor of Kamloops. It’s [Continue]
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