Politics

City Hall spent the week doing what cities do best: rearranging the visible deckchairs while pushing the real cost further down the ship. They called it “budget management.” I call it economics under fluorescent lighting. […]

In Peterborough, we like to sentimentalize the old CGE buildings — the brick cathedrals of our industrial glory days, when the lights stayed on, the shifts were full, and the city’s nickname actually made sense. […]

It’s late October in Peterborough, and the cold’s already got teeth. You can feel it coming off the river, crawling down George Street, cutting through the canvas of the tent encampments that have become part […]

Peterborough’s bike lane strategy reads like a love letter to Dutch urbanism penned by someone who’s never actually been to Amsterdam. There’s an earnestness to it — the kind that produces PowerPoints, not progress. We’ve […]

Peterborough, the so-called “Electric City,” has spent the last half-decade proving it believes in power — not just electricity, but concrete, steel, and, apparently, enough courts to keep a whole city bouncing. Council has invested […]

Drive five minutes in Peterborough and you’ll get a free chiropractic adjustment, courtesy of a pothole the size of a canoe. Welcome to a city where the roads are less a network and more a […]

City Council met September 22nd and, as usual, managed to combine money, mud, garbage, and teenagers into one evening of civic poetry. Money, money, money (or lack thereof).The accountants started things off with the city’s […]