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CITY OF VICTORIA SHOULD SEND BLANK JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE PETITION FORMS TO ALL VICTORIANS ON VOTERS LIST: Gregory Hartnell open letter to Mayor Fortin + Victoria Council

goyodelarosa wrote 15 hours ago: OPEN LETTER TO MAYOR DEAN FORTIN AND VICTORIA CITY COUNCIL RE: REQUEST FOR BLANK ‘AAP’ … more →

Tags: Accountability, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: VICTORIA, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, Conservation, Fiscal Prudence, HARTNELLIANA, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Public Interest, SAVE VICTORIA HARBOUR

VICTORIA MAYOR DEAN FORTIN'S 'OPEN DOOR' IS CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 15: 'No appointment necessary'4 comments

goyodelarosa wrote 1 day ago: ‘DEMOCRATIC CONSULTATION’, FORTIN-STYLE   by Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, President Co … more →

Tags: Accountability, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: VICTORIA, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, Conservation, Fiscal Prudence, HARTNELLIANA, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, NUCLEAR FREE PORTS, PEACE NOW: BRING CANADIAN TROOPS HOME FROM AFGHANISTAN

ROSS CROCKFORD ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE'S REAL 'REPLACEMENT' COSTS: 'City has not revealed any engineering plans for this bridge, making it impossible to guess'1 comment

goyodelarosa wrote 3 days ago: JOHNSONSTREETBRIDGE.ORG CO-DIRECTOR QUESTIONS THE CITY OF VICTORIA’S NUMBERS Re: “Battle … more →

Tags: Accountability, Conservation, Fiscal Prudence, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Outsiders, Public Interest, SAVE VICTORIA HARBOUR, $35 MILLION TO FIX JOHNSON ST BRIDGE?, 'SAVE JOSEPH STRAUSS BRIDGE'

DAVID McLEAN ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE PETITION FOR REFERENDUM: 'I will sign the elector response form opposing the loan authorization'1 comment

goyodelarosa wrote 3 days ago: FORMER LIBERAL VICTORIA CITY COUNCILLOR DECRIES ’NEGATIVE PETITION PROCESS’ FOR ‘B … more →

Tags: Accountability, Conservation, Fiscal Prudence, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Public Interest, DAVID McLEAN: FORMER LIBERAL VICTORIA CITY COUNCILLOR, johnsonstreetbridge.org: REFERENDUM ON JSB NEEDED, SAVE JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE

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'1 comment

goyodelarosa wrote 5 days ago: PHONEY CONSULTATION ON BRIDGE PLAN   Re: “Battle of the Bridge,” Nov. 29. Victoria Mayor … more →

Tags: "NON-ELECTED VICTORIA CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES, Accountability, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: VICTORIA, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, Conservation, Fiscal Prudence, HARTNELLIANA, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, NUCLEAR FREE PORTS

SHEILA PROTTI ON REPAIRING JOSEPH STRAUSS' JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'smaller tax burden... less disruption... more efficient process'

goyodelarosa wrote 5 days ago: VICTORIA TAXPAYER THINKS REFURBISHMENT OPTION IS MORE REASONABLE: AN UPGRADED BRIDGE, EARTHQUAKE PRO … more →

Tags: Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, HARTNELLIANA, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Accountability, Fiscal Prudence, SAVE VICTORIA HARBOUR, Public Interest, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: VICTORIA

MARY LOWTHER ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'Ventures as expensive as this one should automatically go to referendum'

goyodelarosa wrote 5 days ago: ‘ALTERNATIVES TO REBUILDING THE BRIDGE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED’   I’ve learned not … more →

Tags: Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, HARTNELLIANA, NUCLEAR FREE PORTS, peace & justice, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Accountability, Fiscal Prudence, SAVE VICTORIA HARBOUR

WILLIAM PERRY ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'It should have been treated with a greater due diligence + a greater regard for taxpayers, particularly during a recession'

goyodelarosa wrote 6 days ago: ‘IT CARRIES A PRICE TAG FAR BEYOND ANYTHING THIS CITY HAS SEEN’   The “Battle … more →

Tags: Accountability, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: VICTORIA, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, Conservation, Fiscal Prudence, Public Interest, social housing, SOLIDARITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, BRIDGE DEBATE OFFERS LESSONS

A CONCERNED CITIZEN PETITIONS FOR A REFERENDUM: Save Joseph Strauss' Johnson Street Bridge2 comments

goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: UP WITH THE JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE! DOWN WITH DEAN FORTIN’S FOLLY!   Now that I have signed the … more →

Tags: Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, Accountability, SOLIDARITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, Fiscal Prudence, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: VICTORIA, 'GOYO DE LA ROSA' (GREGORY HARTNELL), Dawn Keough Hartnell, SAVE JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE

CONCERNED CITIZENS' GREGORY HARTNELL VOTES AGAINST BORROWING $42,000,000 TO DEMOLISH JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE1 comment

goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: CCC PRESIDENT HARTNELL VOTES FOR JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE REFERENDUM, SENDS SIGNED ‘COUNTER-PETIT … more →

Tags: social housing, Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, HARTNELLIANA, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Accountability, SOLIDARITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, Fiscal Prudence, SAVE VICTORIA HARBOUR

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 2 weeks ago: TWO COUNCILLORS DID NOT EVEN VOTE ON ‘FORTIN’S FOLLY’   I would have thought a $63 … more →

Tags: Accountability, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: VICTORIA, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, Conservation, Fiscal Prudence, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, NUCLEAR FREE PORTS, Public Interest, SAVE VICTORIA HARBOUR

ROB REID thanks Victoria City Councillors Madoff + Young 'for attempting to slow down council's present course... over JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE'

goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: FORMER VICTORIA LIBERAL MAYORAL CANDIDATE SAYS  ’TO BLINDLY RUSH AHEAD WITH THE LARGEST EXPEND … more →

Tags: Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Accountability, SOLIDARITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, Fiscal Prudence, SAVE VICTORIA HARBOUR, Public Interest, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: VICTORIA

STEPHEN ANDREW SLAMS FORTIN'S 'NEGATIVE BILLING OPTION': "Shouldn't we have gone to referendum right away?"2 comments

goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: CFAX Radio News’ ’stand in’ reporter Stephen Andrew interviewed Victoria Mayor Dea … more →

Tags: social housing, Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, HARTNELLIANA, NUCLEAR FREE PORTS, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Accountability, SOLIDARITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, Fiscal Prudence

'Where's democracy headed in Victoria BC?' wonders YULE HEIBEL @ JohnsonStreetBridge.org1 comment

goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: Yule Heibel, one of three co-directors of JohnsonStreetBridge.org, exhorts her fellow ‘colonia … more →

Tags: social housing, Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, NUCLEAR FREE PORTS, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Accountability, SOLIDARITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, Fiscal Prudence, SAVE VICTORIA HARBOUR

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'4 comments

goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: Mayor Dean Fortin’s revisionist history of the Johnson Street Bridge in this morning’s T … more →

Tags: abstinence detox multivitamin therapy, social housing, Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, HARTNELLIANA, NUCLEAR FREE PORTS, Accountability, SOLIDARITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, Fiscal Prudence

WILLIAM PERRY TO VICTORIA CITY COUNCIL: 'Purchase the Traveller's Inn properties, just in time for Christmas... and immediately house the homeless'

goyodelarosa wrote 1 month ago: ‘PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE ME WRONG’   Re: ‘John Asfar’s Traveller’ … more →

Tags: Outsiders, neighbourhood recovery houses, twelve step fellowship meetings, abstinence detox multivitamin therapy, social housing, Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, HUMAN REFUGEE CONSERVATION, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST

WILLIAM PERRY ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'The easiest way to avoid a toll, is call for Mayor and Council to resign'

goyodelarosa wrote 2 months ago: HOW TO AVOID A TOLL: ‘SHUNPIKING’: USING ANOTHER ROUTE    The practice of collecting tol … more →

Tags: Outsiders, Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, HARTNELLIANA, NUCLEAR FREE PORTS, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Accountability, Fiscal Prudence, SAVE VICTORIA HARBOUR

TOM HUKARI ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'It looks like restoration of the existing bridge is the better option'

goyodelarosa wrote 2 months ago: The Johnson Street Bridge project failed to receive provincial and federal funding. It is time for C … more →

Tags: Outsiders, social housing, Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, HARTNELLIANA, NUCLEAR FREE PORTS, peace & justice, LOCAL CULTURE FIRST, Accountability

PAUL WILLCOCKS ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'First, they should take another look at simply repairing and updating the existing bridge'1 comment

goyodelarosa wrote 2 months ago: VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST EDITORIALIST SAYS ‘STIMULUS’ REJECTION BY SENIOR GOVERNMENTS … more →

Tags: Outsiders, neighbourhood recovery houses, twelve step fellowship meetings, abstinence detox multivitamin therapy, social housing, Conservation, Concerned Citizens' Coalition History, Accountability, SOLIDARITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE


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