By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) - It took CBC Radio morning man Tony Doucette to get down to the real issue in the disgraced councilor Al Maghnieh scandal. Scandal should in this case have a capital “S” but spell check doesn’t agree. It is wrong. On his radio show May 9, 2012, Docuette listened intently [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – A cheer went up in a local coffee shop when Bill Marra stood up at the May 8, 2012 meeting of the city’s inward and selfish council. The cheerer was the one guy who thought, and won the bet, that it would be Bill Marra who would welcome disgraced [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – It is the statement that will haunt Windsor’s failed mayor, well, indefinitely because if nothing else it really crystallizes the reasons he is such an abysmal failure. There for all ears to hear on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 he told a CBC radio reporter that he is only here [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – Roads running throughout the rose city are in terrible shape. But who cares. Not the city’s inward and selfish council. Possibly a new emerging group does which has set the bumpy, deteriorating roads in its crosshairs. The formation of the so-called Smooth Roads Campaign is just another in a [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – Even for the city’s head sycophant, running two vanity articles in a row on the same person has got to be a record. That is exactly what happened May 5, 2012 when the Windsor Star’s vanity columnist Gord Henderson attempted to set the record straight on his disgraced idol [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – There is some concern by city hall watchers that a planned meeting with mysterious investors and the mayor of Windsor, an Edgar Francis, May 7, 2012 that required the postponing to the next day of an authorized meeting of the city’s inward and selfish council, might well be the [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – Every day it seems, news arrives from Detroit that points yet another finger at the mayor of Windsor, an Edgar Francis, who is able to do nothing reasonable to rebuild the city’s failing downtown. Sure, he is putting taxpayers at risk with his swimming canal, known by some as [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – Not only is the guy who runs the Windsor Public Library supposedly a brilliant manager, possibly a bit subservient to his boss who isn’t his boss, but Barry Holmes seems to be quite the medical miracle worker. Apparently so that the people who used to line up to see [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – The new kid on the block has delivered what could be a destabilizing blow to the big guy in the neighbourhood. It could be the game changer that some in the rose city have been waiting and hoping for for some time. By now, even people living in a [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – With so many trips, probably seven, but who’s counting, to China by the mayor of Windsor, an Edgar Francis, some city hall watchers are starting to wonder what all the fuss is about and why the mayor is spending so much taxpayer money and producing nothing. Some think he [...]
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