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From Market to Park-it

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Take a drive by Market Square at night, or anytime for that matter, when skaters are buzzing around the artificial rink and you’ll see that Market Square has somehow become Park-it Square.


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New K-Rock Centre Transpo Plan

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The K-Rock Centre is one of those hot button issues that will not go away.  During the facility’s first year, it operated under a sizable deficit, was unable to attract many big name performers, and the list of criticisms goes on.  Although the final report card has yet to be delivered for 2009, the K-Rock [...]


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What if Kingston…

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We’re back in the Limestone City after a whirlwind adventure that took us west on the MacDonald-Cartier Freeway with stop overs in Ontario’s feel good town, the big smoke, the city of opportunity, as well as the city of waterfalls steel.  I always enjoy visiting other urban centres, both large and small, as it affords [...]


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Useless Pieces of Plastic

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Earlier this week I paid the second installment of our property taxes in person at Kingston City Hall.  I suppose I could have sent it in the mail, but that would have wasted a stamp, and made me worry that my sizable cheque was in the hands of Kingston’s version of either Newman, or Cliff [...]


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The Golden Ticket

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Given the events that transpired yesterday afternoon, I suppose it’s fitting that the picture I posted for the snow storm prominently features one of our solar-powered parking stations. Before I get into my tale of woe, I want to clarify that I do pay for parking more often than not. That said, when I know [...]


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You’ve Landed on Free Parking

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We’ve all heard the chorus of protests from groups such as KCAL and local business owners, who opposed the downtown location of the KRock Centre, based on the fact that there were no new parking areas to accommodate the random influx of event goers. So City Hall got creative, and now Kingston reigns supreme atop [...]


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