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GREGORY HARTNELL ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE "ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS": 'To encourage democratic participation, blank petition forms should be sent to every person on the voters' list in the City'
PHONEY CONSULTATION ON BRIDGE PLAN Re: “Battle of the Bridge,” Nov. 29. Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin says that the “alternative approval process” for the Johnson Street Bridge … more →
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GREGORY HARTNELL ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE "ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS": 'To encourage democratic participation, blank petition forms should be sent to every person on the voters' list in the City'
goyodelarosa wrote 5 hours ago: PHONEY CONSULTATION ON BRIDGE PLAN Re: “Battle of the Bridge,” Nov. 29. Victoria Mayor … more →
SHEILA PROTTI ON REPAIRING JOSEPH STRAUSS' JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'smaller tax burden... less disruption... more efficient process'
goyodelarosa wrote 8 hours ago: VICTORIA TAXPAYER THINKS REFURBISHMENT OPTION IS MORE REASONABLE: AN UPGRADED BRIDGE, EARTHQUAKE PRO … more →
MARY LOWTHER ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'Ventures as expensive as this one should automatically go to referendum'
goyodelarosa wrote 9 hours ago: ‘ALTERNATIVES TO REBUILDING THE BRIDGE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED’ I’ve learned not … more →
CATHERINE WILLIAMS ON 'OUR BLUE' JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'DON'T DESTROY IT'
goyodelarosa wrote 9 hours ago: People come from all over the world to see our Blue Bridge because it is a twin cantilever bridge … more →
CONCERNED CITIZENS' GREGORY HARTNELL VOTES AGAINST BORROWING $42,000,000 TO DEMOLISH JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE
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goyodelarosa wrote 6 days ago: CCC PRESIDENT HARTNELL VOTES FOR JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE REFERENDUM, SENDS SIGNED ‘COUNTER-PETIT … more →
PATRICK MURPHY ON 'OUR HIGHLY PAID VICTORIA COUNCILLORS: Lynn Hunter and Chris Coleman, who could not be bothered to show up to represent Victorians'
goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: TWO COUNCILLORS DID NOT EVEN VOTE ON ‘FORTIN’S FOLLY’ I would have thought a $63 … more →
ROB REID thanks Victoria City Councillors Madoff + Young 'for attempting to slow down council's present course... over JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE'
goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: FORMER VICTORIA LIBERAL MAYORAL CANDIDATE SAYS ’TO BLINDLY RUSH AHEAD WITH THE LARGEST EXPEND … more →
JohnsonStreetBridge.org will count signed petitions for a referendum to SAVE JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE
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goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: JOHNSONSTREETBRIDGE.ORG WEBSITE LEADS OPPOSITION TO SOCIALIST MAYOR’S $42,000,000 ‘REPLA … more →
STEPHEN ANDREW SLAMS FORTIN'S 'NEGATIVE BILLING OPTION': "Shouldn't we have gone to referendum right away?"
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goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: CFAX Radio News’ ’stand in’ reporter Stephen Andrew interviewed Victoria Mayor Dea … more →
'Where's democracy headed in Victoria BC?' wonders YULE HEIBEL @ JohnsonStreetBridge.org
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goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: Yule Heibel, one of three co-directors of JohnsonStreetBridge.org, exhorts her fellow ‘colonia … more →
MAYOR DEAN FORTIN'S 'FAR OUT' 20 YEAR PLAN FOR THE NEW JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'Property taxes will not increase as a result of this project'
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goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: Mayor Dean Fortin’s revisionist history of the Johnson Street Bridge in this morning’s T … more →
Victoria federal Conservative candidate PATRICK HUNT 'is a nice guy,' says self-described 'centrist' federal Liberal candidate CHRISTOPHER CAUSTON, 'but his leader is too ideological'
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goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: Recently I had occasion to rudely accost the Mayor of Oak Bay, one Christopher Causton, in the lobby … more →
ERIC MARGOLIS: Why Canada should get out of Afghanistan
goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: ‘ALL FOREIGN SOLDIERS MUST WITHDRAW’ An election held under the guns of a foreign … more →
PAUL WILLCOCKS ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'A referendum, with specific, detailed questions, would allow... voters to offer their best judgements'
goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: ‘SUPPORT OF ONLY 12 % OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS WAS ENOUGH TO ELECT DEAN FORTIN AS MAYOR LAST YEAR … more →
TAMARA HERMAN: 'Taxpayers are largely footing a $6,000,000,000 Olympic bill'
goyodelarosa wrote 3 weeks ago: A COLLOSAL MISUSE OF OUR RESOURCES Re: “Pride and protest: Readers sound off about Olympic t … more →
SAINT BERTILLA: First Abbess of Chelles monastery, restored with Queen Saint Bathildis, near Paris: 'GREAT NUMBERS flocked to the abbey during Bertilla's half century of rule,' circa 700
goyodelarosa wrote 3 weeks ago: A NUN OF JOUARE St. Bertilla, nun of Jouare, and then first abbess of Chelles, near Paris, when th … more →
FRANK NELSON, PARSONS BRINKERHOFF HERITAGE BRIDGE ENGINEER FROM SEATTLE: Save Johnson Street Bridge
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goyodelarosa wrote 4 weeks ago: JOHNSONSTREETBRIDGE.ORG, FOCUS magazine and the Hallmark Society brought Frank Nelson of Parsons Bri … more →
WILLIAM PERRY: Many of Mohandas K. Gandhi's 'More than 100,000' followers 'were sent to jail... none retaliated'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 weeks ago: On April 6, 1930, after having marched 241 miles on foot from his village to the sea, Mohandas K. Ga … more →
RAJINDER SAHOTA: 'To paraphrase Gandhi, a society ought to be measured by how it treats its those most vulnerable amongst its members'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 weeks ago: OLYMPICS GAMES SPENDING WOULD LIKELY HAVE ATTRACTED GANDHI’S ATTENTION IN A NEGATIVE WAY Wit … more →
