On the radio show yesterday, we debated the City Of Windsor's list of "shovel-ready" projects and how it can be considered a road-map of development ...

Writing this blog feels like a very local thing.  Most of the people reading and commenting live in or around Windsor/Essex County.  I know this isn't the definitive truth, but it definitely feels that way. Being the "owner " of a blog, you get all sorts of information about the people ...

After much hype, I attended the lecture by Witold Rybczynski sponsored by the University of Windsor's Humanities Research Group last night.  I had done some online ...

Planning For Whose Future? The astronomical figures being tossed around by the feds blow my mind.  I have no idea what four billion dollars would look like, but the Feds are promising this over the ...

I don't know whether this spotlight we're shining on unshovelled sidewalks gets the credit, but we are seeing some effort on behalf of the caretakers highlighted before in cleaning their sidewalks. Dr. Ghilzon and WFCU on Dougall Avenue have cleared their walks and Majority Control informs me that the sidewalks ...

Today I am going to relay a New York Times column by David Brooks that was sent to me by a good friend of the Scaledown community and I had to pass it along because its message is too strong just to keep to myself.  ...

I finally can start contributing to the downtown core in a more meaningful way. Over the past few years, bureaucracy and organization took precedent over nuts and bolts improvements. Now all of that is important and I commend the entire board for working on that as it ...

Our readers sure do love their sidewalks, don't they? I just got these cell-photos from reader "'Majority Control" (not his/her real name, ...