Going green is central to dealing with Hamilton’s $3.5 billion shortfall in the maintenance of existing infrastructure like roads, pipes and city-owned facilities says a former city councillor.

Tenants may see rent decreases this year thanks to new tax rules imposed on municipalities by the provincial government.

This is a regular CATCH summary of votes at committee and council meetings. This report covers the month of January 2018.

A low-budget two-year study by the HSR and McMaster to “re-envision transit” may be another attempt to convince bus riders that something is being done to fix a badly discredited system.

Two respected authors with deep local ties spoke last week on the planet’s most dangerous nuclear hotspot.

A provincially-encouraged method of reducing taxpayer subsidies of new growth has been largely rejected by a subcommittee of city council.

It was the once-a-year opportunity for residents to comment on the city budget, but some of the participants are feeling like they’re caught in the groundhog day movie repeating the same pleas with no obvious results.

Despite the passion behind them, councillor wishes for the more road widening aren’t making much progress with provincial authorities.

This fall’s city elections give Hamiltonians a chance to select their representatives for the next four-year term.

Opposition is building to city plans that would pre-approve much of downtown Hamilton for 30 storey buildings and leave almost nothing under six storeys.

Hamilton councillors should be paying close attention to a major evaluation of Ontario’s climate actions released late last month by the province’s environmental commissioner.

This is a regular CATCH summary of votes at committee and council meetings. This report covers the month of December 2017.

Shortly after last week’s transit budget presentation, the city took the unusual step of sending out a media release highlighting HSR accomplishments and the funding provided by council decisions.

There’s been no progress in attracting any industry to the controversial Airport Employment Growth District (AEGD aka aerotropolis) that was finalized several years ago.

In the wake of a year of costly flooding and rock falls, worries about climate change are more prominently featured in this year’s city budget.

The proposed tax increase in this municipal election year is one of the lowest in a decade even before councillors try to whittle it down.

Last month’s Ontario Municipal Board decision didn’t just slam city councillors for trying to manipulate their ward boundaries.

This is a regular CATCH summary of votes at committee and council meetings. This report covers the month of November 2017.