MuniPoli 101: A Well Developed City
Development planning is indispensable for good city governance—as is consistently following clear rules, and engaging the people affected.
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MuniPoli 101: Whose Jurisdiction is it, Anyway?
There are limits to what the City can accomplish when the Province won’t give it the power (or resources) it needs to properly govern itself.
MuniPoli 101: Let’s Talk About Tax, Baby
St. John’s is facing a budget shortfall and the City can’t run deficits. If aspiring councillors don’t want to raise taxes, they must specify which services they’ll cut.
Green Transition or Greene Transition? Climate Policy in NL
For all the talk about a future transition to green energy and our ‘clean’ economy, Newfoundland and Labrador avoids tackling climate change.
Budget 2021: Good News, Bad News, & Confusion About NL’s Future
This budget got better because the economy got better, and Moya Greene was overly pessimistic about the province’s situation.
The Offshore Exploration Disincentive Program
This hastily designed—and expensive—provincial government program fails to deliver on its promises.
The Newfoundland Nine and the Labrador None
What it means to send healthcare help to other provinces—while ignoring the worsening state within our own.
Andrew Furey’s Liberals Have a Legitimacy Problem
It’s hard to imagine what sort of election investigation will be undertaken by a government that won’t question the legitimacy of its win.
Will the PERT Report Highlight Our Fishery?
The following is a slightly condensed version of a December 3, 2020 submission on the fishery to the Premier’s Economic Recovery Task Force.
So Moved, NL: Municipalities in a Fiscally Foreboding Time
“We can’t pretend that the municipal sector, with its property tax, is going to be able to afford a billion dollars over the next 10 years.”
