Opinion

Editor: My husband and I were having dinner at Taverna Gorgona last Thursday. On the way back to our car, somehow my wallet fell out of my purse. Later that evening I received a call from the restaurant informing me it had my wallet.

Editor: Recently I had just exited the south end of the George Massey Tunnel and was stuck on River Road with an overheated car.

People like to talk about "quality of life." I am still trying to understand what that means exactly.

Editor: Re: Meter replacement program getting ahead of itself, letter to the editor, Sept. 9 Smart meters are a safe and cost-effective way to modernize the electricity system for the benefit of all British Columbians.

Editor: Another year passes, and the apparatchiks of Canada's major labour unions are still mired in their myopic yearning for an obsolete era of entitlement.

For all the hot air and newsprint expended on the Southlands over the last few years, precious little debate about the Century Group's plans has actually taken place in an official setting. That's something Sean Hodgins wants to rectify.

Editor: As P. T. Barnum observed: "There is a sucker born every minute", and with the regional mayors goose-stepping in unison with TransLink's demand for more money, it seems we are governed by suckers.

Editor: Well, it's easy to tell the kids are back at school these days. The sidewalks within a three-block radius of the high school are once again littered with empty pizza boxes, discarded snack wrappers and half-eaten sandwiches.

What do Delta area plans and requests for information from Delta taxpayers have in common? Apparently quite a bit.

I'm not sure governments necessarily learn the lessons provided by history, but the recent HST fiasco offers a valuable teaching point.