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I’ll post more later today but some quick thoughts on yesterday’s election and last night’s coverage: * The City of Ottawa's web site did not crash. * After the 2006 election, I blogged about the [ lack of change ](http://ottawastart. ...

Here’s another one for all of the typography geeks who read this blog. Last week in the Ottawa Citizen, a typo in the headline about the University of Ottawa inadvertently called the school “U of Zero” insted of “U of O”. ...

If Larry O’Brien is found guilty of the influence-peddling charges against him, he’ll have to step down as mayor of Ottawa . Justice Douglas Cunningham is expected to deliver his verdict on August 12 , so we thought that in the meantime we should start talking about how we should pick the new mayor, just in case it comes to that. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/obrienvideo.jpg) The 2007 video of Mayor Larry O’Brien being interviewed by the OPP is now online. The judge in O’Brien’s trial gave the media access to the DVD of the interview, and today several media outlets published it online. ...

The Larry O’Brien trial is keeping Ottawa court sketch artists busy. With cameras banned from the courtroom, we’ve seen at least three different sketch artists providing images from the trial for various media outlets in the city. CBC ’s artist ...

Quick update: We added a whole bunch of links to our Politics Guide about Mayor Larry O’Brien trial. The trial starts on Monday (tomorrow). ** Related: ** Ottawa Politics Guide

We posted about Mayor Larry’s blog on May 17 when it was brand new. After three weeks of reading the blog, we’re underwhelmed. So far it’s mostly press releases, and the tone is impersonal – at least it doesn’t “sound” like something Larry would write. ...

Mayor Larry O’Brien has a new blog . Says Larry: Here you will find my story about growing up in a city that is as varied and as wonderful as the people who live here. Sometimes I get asked the question “Did you grow up in Ottawa? ...

Interesting reading today on Bob LeDrew’s FlakLife blog: " Ottawa’s mayor offers a clinic in how NOT to do media " Bob recaps all of the mayor’s blunders since being elected in 2006, including his latest mix-up with the media over some comments his son made on a local blog. ...

Dr. Dawg lambasts Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien today in a post titled Bull in a china shop : Watching him fumble and blunder his way from gaffe to gaffe has aroused a certain Schadenfreude in progressive quarters. But his unsavoury combination of staggering ineptitude, unruffled self-confidence and adolescent tough talk is little short of a tragedy for Ottawa. ...