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Earlier this week on Greater Ottawa, David Reevely asked: " Why do people feel so strongly about garbage? " Quick background: The City of Ottawa’s doing a series of public consultations about garbage and recycling collection , and one of the ideas that’s being tossed around is moving to bi-weekly garbage pick-up. ...

Looking through the list of [ app ideas submitted to the City of Ottawa ](http://apps4ottawa.ca/) . Some of the more unusual entries include: * "An app that displays the location of where I can warm my lunch in a microwave." [ http://apps4ottawa. ...

David Reevely has a good rant today titled " A council that trusts nobody, including itself “. (I’d post an excerpt but there’s a hockey game to watch.) ** Related: ** Ottawa Politics Guide

Ottawa Citizen blogger David Reevely translates a very wordy memo/letter by Deputy city manager Nancy Schepers re: the new bus garage.

12:18am on Tuesday morning, August 12th. Just finished online registration for our daughter’s swimming lessons this fall. Today is the first day to register, and registration started online at 12:01am. Sure, we could register in person at 9am – but by that time the coveted Sunday morning swimming timeslots are likely to be snapped up. ...

In the past year, Ottawa Citizen blogger David Reevely has asked readers to identify Ottawa’s worst bus route and the worst intersection . Now he wants to know about cycling trouble spots : “what are the dangerous problem spots you encounter all the damn time? ...

Earlier this week, the City of Ottawa launched a new Application Development Search to “provide the community with convenient access to identify, investigate and make comments on applications within the development process.” Ottawa blogger Chris Taggart says the service is a big step forward, but offers these suggestions to the city to improve it: ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/nepeancityhall.jpg) We’re hearing rumours today about a splinter group on Ottawa City Council that wants to de-amalgamate Nepean from the City of Ottawa. The group says growing displeasure from Barrhaven residents is fuelling the movement – they’ve even drafted plans for a new Nepean City Hall, to be located off Jockvale Road. ...

Several local bloggers are complaining today about city council’s decision to hike bus fares by 7.5% in each of the next three years. Blake Batson writes: I’m mad, disappointed and discouraged at 16 Councillors who feel that solving budget problems should be done on the backs of those who can least afford it. ...

Two press releases caught our eye last week: * First, from the City of Ottawa: [ City’s approved sledding hills open ](http://www.ottawastart.com/story/7080.php) * Second, from the National Capital Commission: [ NCC’S TOBOGGAN HILLS IN THE GREENBELT ARE NOW OPEN ](http://www. ...