It’s another busy Thursday, here in Edmonton news-land.
Plenty popping up on the Edmonton City Centre Airport, the Heritage Festival and Big Valley Jamboree are in the news before this weekend, mosquitoes are arriving, plus Vue asks a question about whether we should change our poet laureate.
And St. Albert baseball diamonds are burning up.
Dig in.
MLAs, Enbridge join fight for Edmonton airport (This comes as the airports authority prepares to shut down one of the runways. Hey, how did everyone miss all the months of debate, days of public hearings, and city council vote on the City Centre Airport LAST YEAR? Also, maybe Enbridge wants to keep its name out of headlines, you know, what with its devastating oil spill in Michigan and all.)
Edmonton airport upgrade 25% under budget (This would be at the Edmonton International Airport.)
A question of dollars … gadzillions of dollars (Arena, Indy, and more questions from Dan Barnes.)
Historic Edmonton church saved from demolition
Money transfer scam targeting seniors
Giant robot dinosaurs stalk boreal forest
This bad news: Meat Loaf cancels Edmonton gig can be offset with this good news: Mickey Rooney coming to Sherwood Park
Heritage Festival goes 100% green, say organizers
City’s cat crisis (People are tossing cats like trash.)
‘Hope on the horizon’ for MS sufferers
BVJ to text storm alerts (Learning from last year.)
Holiday demand pumps up gas prices
“Mini me” mosquitos invade metro
MLA lured by money to delay joining Wildrose (Although, to be fair, if he’s using his Independent research budget up before jumping ship, it makes sense. If.)
School construction to last into fall (It’s not like schools have a calendar on when they are in session or not.)
St. Alberta baseball association faces $20K bill (They only set their baseball diamonds on fire.)
Citizen powered (Campus and community radio stations, like our own CJSR, are going to get a few government-mandated bucks.)
Disappearing act (What did happen to that study on the oilsands and water resources?)
Changing of the guard (Should we dump the poet laureate for a songwriter laureate?)
Arena deal does not add up (And Fish Griwskowsky wants Katz and Co. to know, For the record, downtown is not dead yet.)
One more day until the long weekend!
