Entries tagged with: hollyhock
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Bill Rathie's boner & other summer politics
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The Mayor is kayaking & "off-the-grid" according to his handlers Let it be a lesson to all future Vancouver mayors. Don't follow the advice of political staff which suggests that you can book off the whole summer break, and...
Posted on August 26, 2010 7:16 AM
Robertson reclines while Magee drives Vision's agenda
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The elusive Bob Penner of Strategic Communications, advisor to Gregor Robertson Doled out as a freebie to homes on the tony west side, Vancouver magazine may have our city's name but its unfailingly glamorous version of our town seems...
Posted on August 19, 2010 8:38 PM
Hollyhock happening features tuba-playing politician
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Tonight "Gregor" plays tuba at a Hollyhock fundraiser – click for full poster This comes on short notice for anyone not already planted on Cortes Island, but if you happen to be anywhere near that cosmic wonderland on the...
Posted on August 13, 2010 11:59 AM
Merkley's "moving expenses" raise questions about Hollyhock hire
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Ryan Merkley did a six-month tour of duty in Vancouver before returning home CityCaucus.com readers will remember the odd story of the last-minute hiring of Toronto's Ryan Merkley as Vancouver's new Director of Communications replacing Laurie Best just prior to...
Posted on July 29, 2010 9:08 AM
Gregor Robertson issues written apology on red light incident
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Good follow-up coverage from CBC TV on the "Red Light Robertson" story Who would have thought that sitting in my office and shooting a bit of video of countless cyclists breaking the rules of the road could translate into...
Posted on July 28, 2010 1:04 PM
Joel Solomon's 500-year vision for Vision
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Christopher Columbus landing on the shores of America 500 years ago inspired Solomon Just when you think you've heard it all when it comes to Vision Vancouver, along comes something new to make you sit up and ask Whaaaaaa?...
Posted on June 29, 2010 11:56 AM
Is the Liberal-NDP love-in over in Vancouver?
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Is this how Iggy would react if Gregor Robertson decided to join a Liberal slate? A week or so ago I caught an op/ed in the Vancouver Sun by Liberal Party apparatchik Mark Marissen that rejected the notion of a...
Posted on June 17, 2010 1:54 PM
Vision Vancouver's money problem - it's time to disclose now
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It's time that the public gets to have a look at who's paying Vision's debt There's been a lot of talk about campaign financing lately, and much of it seems to avoid hard questions of influence, the potential for...
Posted on May 20, 2010 3:16 PM
Top Three Donors in British Columbia gave to Vision Vancouver
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How about that? The biggest donations in BC go right to Vision Vancouver – click for larger Ahem. The concerns I have expressed here at CityCaucus.com about campaign donations through our Know Your Donor series seem to have a...
Posted on April 30, 2010 3:15 PM
Vision trustees hold off on vote, budget won't pass
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Independent schooling spokesmodel Patti Bacchus Vision's school trustee Chair Patti Bacchus is making the media rounds today trying to explain why under her leadership she would not have been able to get her 2010/2011 school budget passed. I'm already...
Posted on April 29, 2010 8:31 AM
Greenest City team taking credit for work they didn't do
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Green-washing Vancouver isn't reducing our carbon footprint – it's just empty hype Many of us are realizing now that there was "fine print" on Gregor Robertson's promise to end homelessness. By slyly adding the word "street" before the H-word,...
Posted on April 28, 2010 2:33 PM
Joel Solomon: the man behind Gregor Robertson
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Joel Solomon speaks in San Francisco, July '08 - view videos Vancouver City Hall under Vision is a mystery wrapped inside a riddle, and it is fascinating process to try and deconstruct it. It's not the uninspired public policies...
Posted on April 1, 2010 12:15 PM
Not about to be bullied by Hollyhock: a journalist's inside look
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This handbook might come in handy in deciphering our MayorIn trying to understand the one-time organic farmer who now wears the Mayor's Chain of Office in Vancouver, you have to go off-shore about 150 kilometres north to an isolated...
Posted on March 31, 2010 10:30 AM
Wanted: City Engineer who's into yoga
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Outgoing General Manager of Engineering Services Tom Timm Tom Timm, the head of the largest department at Vancouver City Hall, and arguably the most powerful bureaucrat as General Manager of Engineering Services, is leaving the building at the end...
Posted on March 14, 2010 1:00 PM
Vancouver's municipal parties should hold open nominations
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Open nomination battles often provide the fuel for internal political battles The issue of whether to protect incumbent politicians is always a thorny one for Vancouver's civic parties. On the one hand, they don't like the prospect of all...
Posted on March 12, 2010 2:33 PM
The Hollyhock primer
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"The environment here allows people to open up" - Joel Solomon, Renewal Partners We've written a few times here at CityCaucus.com about the folks that Frances Bula once "jokingly" referred to as the Hollyhock Mafia. We think it would...
Posted on March 10, 2010 12:20 PM
Vancouver City Hollyhock
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New Mayor's office staffer Lara Honrado (left) working for the US Dems campaign in '08 Vancouver City Hall is in the most difficult economic patch it's seen in quite some time, and one of the sacrifices staff have got...
Posted on March 8, 2010 1:30 PM
A post-Vision City Hall will require costly house cleaning
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If Vision loses in 2011, the heavily politicized civil service will have to go It's the first week of December 2011, and staff in Gregor Robertson's office are cleaning out their desks, stunned at the unforeseen triumph of their...
Posted on January 7, 2010 8:47 PM
Seattle's Snowmageddon defeats incumbent mayor
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Seattle goes to the polls in 2 weeks, and Greg Nickels is not on the ballot The story of Seattle's mayoral race to me has eerie similarities to Vancouver's experience in 2008, and a few other twists that will...
Posted on October 25, 2009 11:00 AM
