Archive 1997-2016
Many of us in Hintonburg enjoy reading Centretown News, since our communities have a great deal in common.
I want to respond, however, to an article in the business section of a recent issue (Truck traffic a menace, say downtown businesses, March 12), which described the efforts of some in the King Edward Avenue area to alleviate their serious problem with truck traffic.
It has recently come to my attention that Somerset City Coun. Elisabeth Arnold has won the NDP nomination for the upcoming provincial election in Ottawa Centre. What I find somewhat odd is that she has decided to remain as the councillor for Centretown at the same time as she will be campaigning for the provincial election.
While reading your most recent issue, I became engulfed with rage. Not at anything in particular, but at the pervasive socialist undertones that run through everything in your rag.
Up with art, down with business. Away with trade and keep taxing the rich. It’s all rather tiring.
Then it hit me. Centretown News has always been this way. We all know it’s produced by students — here one day, gone the next — so what’s the common thread, the one constant?
I am writing this letter in response to Jen Ross’ article “Y2K conspiracy theory: The bug is a plot to boost business.”
As an information systems professional since 1980, Ms. Ross’ article reads like some kind of corporate X-File. Perhaps she is misinformed and needs to understand a number of facts about computer systems and programs developed over the past 30 years. She claims it is “hard to believe, even in the 1970s, that programmers could have innocently overlooked the possibility that computers with two-digit year codes would go haywire in 2000.”