The Politics of Perpetual Panic
Danny Williams’ legacy in Newfoundland and Labrador will be one thing: the politics of panic. The old drama queen was always in a panic over something or other that was…
Edward Hollett
Nalcor ignores natural gas, local studies back cheaper alternative to Muskrat Falls project
The provincial government’s energy corporation didn’t study natural gas as an alternative to using Muskrat Falls to replace the Holyrood generating plant according to the company’s final written submission to…
Rumpole and Food for Thought
The Mighty Ceeb is at it again with another story that distorts the information they started with. “Severe crime soaring in N.L.” scrams the website headline. The second paragraph: Statistics…
The Politics of Public Spending
Check the local media for the past week and you’ll see a sudden bunch of stories about the series of fire truck announcements provincial politicians of the Tory persuasion are…
Traffic in the heat of the Summer of Love 2011
Fire trucks, Twitter and a 60 year old who dropped a hundred pounds in six months wanting a job today she didn’t want six months ago. Must be the Summer…
Containing Ottawa’s Skyrocketing Power Bill
by Tom Adams and Brian Lee Crowley Federal taxpayers are exposed to an ex...
Bullshit then or now? Nalcor boss changes story on natural gas and Muskrat megadebt project
Ed Martin dismisses the idea that natural gas might be a sensible replacement for burning Bunker C at Holyrood. Here’s the whole story from VOCM in the event they disappear…
Former Tory fin min not giving up in fight against Muskrat
Former Conservative finance minister John Collins is fighting the Muskrat Falls project as fervently as ever. The 80-something has a new letter in the Telegram taking issue with recent comments…
Nurturing a democratic revolution
Public life in Newfoundland and Labrador remains as fundamentally undemocratic as it ever was. Paternalism remains the order of the day. As three sitting members of the House revealed, they…
From the Earth to the moon
Forty two years later, the American manned space program is about to die. For the first time in half a century the United States will not have the ability to…
Rumpole and the Cardinal Rule
St. John’s lawyer Averill Baker is pissed that the Crown prosecutor is trying to remove her from a case because she represented the victim in the savage beating her current…
Making the Most of Our Energy Resources, Part II – Oil and Gas in the Future
Without new oil and gas discoveries, the Newfoundland and Labrador petroleum industry will dry up within a couple of decades. There hasn’t been a significant discovery in the offshore since…
Like Momma always said…Part Deux und Trois
The only funnier thing than a guy up on assault charges claiming he is a wannabe Tory candidate are opposition party politicos who campaign for the incumbents. In the past…
And Harry won’t be running either
Conservative cabinet minister Harry Harding won't be seeking re-election in this fall's general election, according to media reports on MOnday..
Free tuition at NL university for Nova Scotians: NL NDP leader
The Newfoundland and Labrador local of the New Democratic Party wants taxpayers in her province to give Nova Scotians free tuition at Memorial University. Sounds idiotic, doesn’t it? But that’s…
Traffic that never flip flops
The weekly top 10 Bond Papers posts for the week of July 11 to 15, 2011, selected by you, the readers. Forecasting the fall All three NL parties back Muskrat…
Telly takes wind out of Muskrat
The Telegram editorial on Thursday linked the Muskrat Falls project with the recent announcement by Kruger Inc of a wind energy project in Quebec: Power, apparently, is cheaper in Quebec.…
Did I say yes to Muskrat? I meant “no”: Jones
Political decisions in Newfoundland and Labrador are apparently like the local weather at least as far as the current crop of party leaders in the province is concerned. Wait a…
Aquaculture centre opened three years behind schedule, more than 100% over budget
Premier Kathy Dunderdale opened an aquaculture centre in the south coast community of St. Alban’s on Thursday three years after it was supposed to be finished and at more than…
Ahem
From the e-mail inbox this week came a gentle reminder from Kevin Kelly, editor at the Herald: Just wanted to point out that in last week's Newfoundland Herald, (the one…