Monday, February 25, 2008
- History has shown that increasing highway capacity always increases traffic jams, contrary to expectations. And yet politicians keep courting votes by doing just that.
- A little Boston preview of the all-night DJ fest held at Metropolis as part of the Nuit Blanche.
- Serbian nationalists demonstrated in Montreal Sunday, hoping to persuade the Canadian government not to recognize the sovereign state of Kosovo. Canada's issue with its own chronically dissatisfied and intermittently secessionist territory is understood to be a factor in its unwillingness to heartily second the U.S.'s almost immediate welcome of the new country.
- There's a law against idling your car for more than three minutes, but you'd never know it from how few tickets are issued for the infraction.
- The federal government is handing out largesse to Montreal cultural groups plus a million bucks each for the jazz festival and Just For Laughs, a thawing of funds that whispers softly of impending elections.
- Owners of a few modest houses at the far eastern tip of the island have been hit with outrageous tax bills for roadwork done two years ago. They plan to fight.
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