Editorial:The Good Life
The Good Life Editorial by Jeff Green Normally every year we print 50 issues of the Frontenac News and then take two weeks off for Christmas and New Year’s. Every few years, because of the way the weeks line up, we put out a 51st paper before having our annual… READ MORE
Comparing Apples to Subsidized Apples
Editorial by Jeff Green It seems to me that it is inevitable that planning services in Central and North Frontenac will be done by the Frontenac County Planning Department as of sometime early in 2012. In recent presentations to both townships, the County Planner, Joe Gallivan, said that costs will… READ MORE
Recreation the key to longer, healthier living
It is unusual to hear doctors talk about the limitations of their profession. Dr. Andrew Pipe is well known for his work developing smoking cessation programs, for his role as head of cardiac prevention and rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, and for work with elite athletes in… READ MORE
Tar Sands sit in Op-Ed
The problem with civil disobedience is that it is a blatant defiance of the “rules” and in a generally moral, law-abiding society like the one we Canadians enjoy, abiding by the rules is ingrained and defiance is seen as counterproductive rebelliousness or mindless insolence perpetrated by misfits or hotheads and… READ MORE
Editorial: Using Hillier to beat up on us
Editorial by Jeff Green Reading through the coverage of the provincial election that will end its dreary run today, one of the sideshows has been a number of articles in both the Ottawa Citizen and the Globe and Mail about LFL&A incumbent Randy Hillier. The Globe and Mail even dispatched… READ MORE
MacDonald is swimming against the current, but how strong is it?
Editorial Jeff Green Liberal candidate Bill MacDonald has been preparing for the provincial election campaign that is now underway for at least four years, and he is putting everything he has into it. But in electoral politics the local campaign is usually limited in its impact on the election because… READ MORE
Editorial: Energy Policy is about more than Hydro Rates
Editorial by Jeff Green Energy policy will be a major theme in the coming provin-cial election. The Conservative Party has been making the cost of hydro a major thrust of their pre-election banter, but aside from a commitment to cutting the HST from hydro bills, and scrapping the Liberals’ Green… READ MORE
Editorial: I Didn't Know Jack
Jack Layton: A Tribute This Guy Knew Jack I didn’t know Jack By Jeff Green Anyone who has gone through a cancer death in their own family - and that is almost everyone it seems - took a deep breath when Jack Layton appeared in public a few weeks ago… READ MORE
One More Reason to Loath End of Summer - Editorial
We are now well into the Dog Days of summer. The weather is still hot, and we really don’t want to have to think about the cold weather to come. But deep inside we know summer will end. So even if we don’t act right away we are starting to… READ MORE
Managing Forests – More than a tax break
Several years ago John Campbell bought a 200-acre farm on the Willis Armstrong Road, a little bit north of Hwy. 7 in Central Frontenac. The farm had been run by the Young family until age and modern economics held sway. Like so many properties in Frontenac County, and in rural… READ MORE
What price good neighbours?
Bill Day Jr. owns a property that is on a busy through road between Sydenham and Harrowsmith. His property is easy to find from Kingston and the 401. His father ran grass drag snowmobile races on the property for 35 years, and Bill Day is taking things to another level.… READ MORE
Editorial: Shooting the Messenger
Editorial by Jeff Green The Committee of Adjustment in North Frontenac seems to think their own planning consultant is at fault because the Province of Ontario has decided that development on the limited number of new cottage lots that can be found in Ontario will be limited by two things:… READ MORE
Library Closure: One for the Books
Editorial by Jeff Green A month ago, Claudette Richardson, the Chair of the Library Board, a volunteer position, was asked if the board is currently considering closing any branches. “Not to my knowledge”, she said. So even though Ms. Richardson invited a number of library users from Ompah to the… READ MORE
Thoughts On the election
Editorial by Jeff Green At the outset of the federal election campaign that just ended, I made a call to a local NDP riding association member whom I hadn't talked to in quite a while. I was setting up all-candidates’ meetings at the time. We spent a few minutes talking… READ MORE
Editorial: About that $2
Editorial by Jeff Green Prime Minister Harper said last week that, “Public money should not be used to support political parties that the public does not support” as he proposed to scrap the program that pays $2 annually to political parties for each vote they receive at election time. Harper's… READ MORE
Aboriginal Issues: parties have policies, if you can find them
Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell once said that an election campaign is a bad time to discuss policy. She said that during an election campaign that did not end well for her or for her party. None of the major parties seems to think this election is a good time… READ MORE
