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French or English school for our kids? A case study in choosing community

This week my household attended an open house event for the French public elementary school we are considering enrolling our child in to start Junior Kindergarten next fall. Ottawa has four separate school boards covering the same geographic area, that are each managed entirely separately: French secular, English secular, French

What Makes These Cities Feel Like Themselves

I just read a friend's post about the unique aspects that makes certain cities feel like uniquely that city, and I wanted to write down a few things that come to mind for me for cities I'm familiar with. Like Comfect/The Quad Urbanist says in

HAM Radio for Community Preparedness

Over the last several years in the activist and community circles I've been in, people have talked occasionally about getting licensed as amateur or "HAM" radio operators so we would have an alternate means of connecting to one another in an emergency situation when cell or

Why I Think Lincoln, Nebraska is Great

Today A month ago (this took a bit to finish writing, it turns out) I read a blog by Lou Plummer about the town he lives in: Fayetteville, NC. I thought it was a nice little look at his view of what makes his town nice to live in, and