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Hamilton Next Essay Published in Spectator

By Ryan McGreal
Published July 20, 2011

The Hamilton Spectator has published an essay written by your humble RTH editor as part of its Hamilton Next series of essays on the city's future.

Titled, "Hamilton needs an urban focus to build for the future", the essay seeks to argue that Hamilton is a city, not a bedroom community, and that this understanding should focus our priorities.

Ryan McGreal, the editor of Raise the Hammer, lives in Hamilton with his family and works as a programmer, writer and consultant. Ryan volunteers with Hamilton Light Rail, a citizen group dedicated to bringing light rail transit to Hamilton. Ryan wrote a city affairs column in Hamilton Magazine, and several of his articles have been published in the Hamilton Spectator. His articles have also been published in The Walrus, HuffPost and Behind the Numbers. He maintains a personal website, has been known to share passing thoughts on Twitter and Facebook, and posts the occasional cat photo on Instagram.

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By JasonAAllen (registered) - website | Posted July 20, 2011 at 11:38:30

Nice piece putting the LRT debate in larger context - happy to see The Spec publishing it. Looks good for both of you!

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By jason (registered) | Posted July 20, 2011 at 13:44:13

with CHML rapidly becoming less relevant than a dinosaur, it's nice to see the Spec jump on the opportunity to become a progressive voice in Hamilton.

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By screen name (anonymous) | Posted July 20, 2011 at 13:53:04

Ryan McGreal wrote--'Council just voted to increase development charges by 2013, but the city will still charge only 60 per cent of what it is allowed to collect — even 100 per cent would not actually cover the full cost of development.' I think I saw CATCH discuss this a couple times, in June as I looked in their list. Does RTH sometimes credit CATCH as a discussion or even info source--but someone could of got this himself from the city's info.

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By Me 109 (anonymous) | Posted July 20, 2011 at 17:49:43

insult spam deleted

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By Tongue (anonymous) | Posted July 20, 2011 at 17:57:40

Budgies in bad times?

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