Opinion

Editor: Residents of Ladner north of Ladner Trunk Road please be aware how the proposed development near the boat launch, golf course and Captain's Cove Marina will affect you. The proposed plan is for 737 units to be built on only 15.

The practice of dragging garbage cans to the curb every week is almost certainly on borrowed time.

Here we are having just completed the first week of 2013 and it is already looking like this will certainly be a year to remember. I can't think of any municipality that is as politically charged as this one is right now.

The numbers are easy enough to understand, but it's the efforts to extrapolate them that tend to get a bit confusing.

Editor: The signs, open houses and news releases by the provincial government indicate that replacing the George Massey Tunnel could be in the works, but the smart choice would be to talk about adding a crossing and keeping the existing tunnel.

Editor: I am sure you have noticed that governments, both provincial and federal, as well as Port Metro Vancouver, are quick to assure us that projects have undergone or will undergo "a rigorous environmental assessment" when citizens express concern

Editor: Re: Big changes are coming, Jan. 2 Arguably, one of the greatest challenges in stable democracies is navigating change.

Editor: I learned something about new math at Delta council's meeting on Dec. 17.

Editor: Since the provincial government has started the dog and pony show on the dream of replacing the George Massey Tunnel, I had a thought about what it might do with the old Port Mann Bridge.

It's 2: 40 a.m., and we're praying the phone doesn't ring. All night we have heard stories of a 2: 45 phone call from an Operation Red Nose dispatcher alerting the team to a ride from Richmond to Surrey or beyond.