[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="Landfill in Los Angeles: next stop for Ottawa waste technology?"][/caption] -------- CITY LIVING Gen Y trading suburban space for urban convenience (Ottawa Citizen) -------- ENVIRONMENT Moodie Drive Landfill --Plasco lands $110M cash infusion (Ottawa Citizen) -------- MUNICIPAL ELECTION Record number of candidates for Ottawa vote (CBC Ottawa ) Moment Doucet Campaign Caught Fire (Ottawa Citizen) 2010 election will be Ottawa's most accessible (EMC Ottawa ) -------- PEDESTRIAN SAFETY Pedestrians, cyclist reported on 416, 417(Ottawa Citizen) -------- PUBLIC ART New Barrhaven transit station will boast public art, on the sheep(Ottawa ...

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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="City Centre Building: "surely one of the ugliest buildings in town" ('Empty excuses for an empty lot', below)"][/caption] -------- CITY HALL Mayor to reveal election plans June 29 (Ottawa Citizen) -------- DEVELOPERS Eco-friendly condo to be non-smoking (Canwest News ) Empty excuses for an empty lot (Ottawa Citizen) -------- HISTORICAL/TOURISM "It was a seedy and shockingly violent town" (Montreal Gazette) -------- LANSDOWNE Public-private partnership not best for Ottawa (Metro Ottawa ) Park plans worry Mayfair (Ottawa Citizen) -------- Photo by Justin Van Leeuwen

CITY HALL I'm no Marxist proposing living wage (Ottawa Citizen) City to study living wage policy, East end councillors split on issue ( Orleans EMC) LANSDOWNE Ottawa residents have chance to weigh in on Lansdowne plans (Ottawa Citizen) TRANSIT Transit-riding parents set to fight for stroller space (Ottawa Citizen) DEVELOPERS Councillor seeks to revisit boundaries (Ottawa Citizen ) OTHER IDEAS/OTHER CITIES Urban Food Strategy Unveiled (Globe and Mail) photo by Kona Gallagher

CITY HALL Winds of change in air for new council (Ottawa Citizen) City gets $780Gs back for fuel it did not use (Ottawa Sun) Expand Lansdowne jury, adviser urges (Ottawa Citizen) CYCLING More cyclists brave elements to commute year-round (Ottawa Citizen) SCHOOL BOARD Board again tackles alternative school issue (Ottawa Citizen) URBAN ART Cozy up to a lamppost and some urban art (MetroNews) photo by Justin Van Leeuwen

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Carleton O-Train station -- set to see more users soon?"][/caption] 2010 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS Ottawa council needs new blood: advocacy group (CTV) Watson officially enters Ottawa's mayoral race (Centretown News) Peggy Feltmate retires (Ottawa Citizen) URBAN DESIGN The dukes are up (Ottawa Citizen) TRANSIT Student group hails transit pass plan (CBC) LANSDOWNE NCC not interested in buying Lansdowne (Ottawa Citizen) Architects named for Lansdowne redesign (Ottawa Sun) photo by Earl Andrew

CITY HALL • Council passes budget, 3.77% tax hike. Bus routes, tree trimming slated for cuts win reprieve, but at cost of higher transit fares (Ottawa Citizen) • City seeks citizens' ideas for Lansdowne urban park (MetroNews Ottawa) • Committee introduces new anti-poverty strategy (CBC Ottawa) DESIGN • Key Carleton landmarks circled for major facelift. Updated master plan urges replacement of Paterson Hall among other recommendations (Ottawa Citizen) CYCLING • More cyclists brave elements to commute year-round (Ottawa Citizen) MUNICIPAL ELECTION • Hume is the man to watch. If he runs for mayor, election will be ...