By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – You have to hand it to Gord Orr, and some people are. He is the boss over at TWEPI, which sounds like creepy, the local tourism promoter that nicely hived off half of its responsibilities, by having local politicians allow it to get out of that apparently nasty chore [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – There he goes putting his oar in everyone else’s business. As is usual the most ineffective councilor on Windsor city council, and that is quite the accomplishment for him given he is among a group of inward flunkies, has to butt in all over the city, but when he [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – Compared to other Canadian cities there isn’t much that Windsor does right. This is not meant as a complaint but a needed observation on reality. The city suffers fools, like those on its council, who do little for the city. Other cities are in much better shape . Much [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – It might well be that Cheryl Collier, a professor at the local university and a political commentator for CBC Windsor, might have finally broke the code and figured out what work demands help from a disgraced councilor. Readers of The Square will remember how city councilor in good standing [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – With 50 jobs up for grabs at the downtown blunder pool, bumping season is expected to be quite the busy affair this summer as city staff from various departments try to get in on what could be the cushiest positions in Windsor civil service. Bumping happens when unionized staff, [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – It is a pleasant Monday and a parking commissionaire is making his rounds marking tires on cars parked on the north side of Wyandotte in historic Walkerville. He is visible from the recently redecorated restaurant that has shed its role as guacamole provider and now purveys more traditional offerings [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – Could it be, as is often the case, that the appointment of Windsor airport’s former manager to a position with the service provider at the city’s maintenance hanger is a situation in which there is more than meets the eye? As is usual with anything connected to Windsor mayor [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – Day one on the job and what does Sandra Pupatello, the former Ontario minister of economic development and now the new head of the region’s economic development outfit do? She criticizes mayor Eddie Francis for his off-base and failed campaign to diversify the economy. On June 3, 2013 Pupatello [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – It seems that, despite what the operatives at the mayor’s office might tell you, not saying they will, and few will ask, not wanting to be served trespass notices, market studies can be very effective at providing parental guidance to a certain mayor known as Eddie Francis. However there [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – Two in a row means the Windsor Star has possibly emerged from its slumber and is on a roll finally exposing what is really going down in the once rosy city. First columnist Anne Jarvis opened up a can of worms about the lack of official attention to city [...]
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