Garbage collection is one of the city’s most basic and necessary services. It is also a service with enormous room for innovation and improvement. On the pickup end, garbage service helps people keep their home safe and clean. On the other end, how we dispose of that material makes a big difference to our city’s […]
The experience of our city is a collection of places: where we live, where we work, where we play, and where we learn. Each one demands an important part of our time. Getting between these places takes time, too, and that time can often be frustrating. We need to increase safe and efficient options to […]
Post-secondary education is one of London’s greatest strengths. Western University and Fanshawe College are major employers in our city and students contribute millions more to the local economy through spending on rent, food, entertainment, and all the other necessities of life. In many ways, we tend to undervalue the part they play now and could […]
As I have met Ward 6 residents at their doors over the past many months, one of the most frequent concerns I have heard is about the job situation in London. People are concern on their own behalf, on their children’s behalf, or just on their city’s behalf. We have seen large employers like Kellogg’s and Electro-Motive shut down […]
In Metro News on Friday, there was a story about open data at London City Hall, and how much access residents have to information about city services and initiatives. Ward 7 council candidate Josh Morgan and I are proposing a way to make that data more available to you. It’s a Web site called a “citizen dashboard”, and […]