This group blog has been growing in fits and starts. I regret that I haven’t had as much time to devote to writing articles for this group blog as I have for my personal blog, but that hasn’t meant that the community of bloggers in County Wellington and the Region of Waterloo is quiet. Recently, bloggers have been debating the merits of the proposal to build a LRT line and a rapid bus branch through the spine of the region. Ruth at Yappa Ding Ding has been arguing passionately that we should be seriously considering whether this proposal will do more harm than good and, today, regional councillor Jane Mitchell joined this group, with a blog that, among other things, talks up the merits of the LRT proposal.
I’ve said privately that, thanks to the onslaught of the media, I know far more about the goings on at Toronto City Council than I do Kitchener City Council or even Regional Council. That’s a shame, really. Because as you can see, this region can have passionate political debates of their own.
I’m about to head out to a bloggers gathering at the Huether Hotel, which starts today at 4 p.m. I know that a number of bloggers will be there. We have a strong regional identity. We may not have as large a blogging community as, say, Toronto, but like Stuart McLean says in the Vinyl Café: we may not be big, but we’re small.
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