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July 27, 2005
How to make enemies and annoy people

A brief announcement from your humble organ: in honour of the upcoming civic elections, Public Eye has added a new category - Creatures of Government - for those stories covering local politics. The eyecon was handcrafted by Victor Crapnell of Art Department Design, who is responsible for the site's muckraking look-and-feel. Our many thanks to him. In related news, Mr. Crapnell is also putting the finishing touches on a Public Eye re-design, which we will be rolling out shortly.

Posted by Sean Holman at 04:27 PM
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Glad of the credit to the designer.
The work on the site is great, visually establishing the character of Public Eye in a clean, compelling way. It's excellent work.

Posted by Paul Willcocks on July 27, 2005 05:19 PM

Maybe the visual for 'Creatures of government' feature be either pigs at the trough or bleating sheep.

Cheers

Posted by Malcolm Johnston on July 28, 2005 08:12 AM

'Creatures of government' is a good description. Muni politics have the most effect on our lives, yet so many people ignore it.

Creatures of course lends one to recall Mayor Vander Zalm, The Pirate in Nanaimo, Ma Murray from the interior, Harry Rankin of Vancouver fame, Steve Wallace, Quesnel's "Arrogant
the First" and of course the recent shenannigans of Sean Harvey in Vernon.

The list is long and I am sure I will have a few more to add to this list!

Posted by Rick Barnes on July 28, 2005 09:01 AM

Ma Murray was an newspaper owner/publisher/editor and not a local government person. She was also language challenged and a lifelong Liberal

Posted by Bernard on July 28, 2005 12:30 PM

The unofficial mayor of course. She hated WAC Bennett.

Posted by Rick Barnes on July 28, 2005 01:15 PM

In Lillooet at least you would get people flipping at the idea of her being the unofficial mayor,

She hated everyone that was not a Liberal, federally or provincially.

She did run for MLA once as for the Common Herd Party when she ran the Alaska Highway News

Posted by Bernard on July 28, 2005 01:48 PM

how are they doing there with the hospital issue.

Posted by Rick Barnes on July 28, 2005 02:38 PM

Lytton is the palce with the hospital problems. Lillooet retained theirs, though lost beds

Posted by Bernard on July 28, 2005 03:30 PM

Finally, a couple of people have found a Holman story (barely) worthy of a comment.

Posted by Jacqueline on July 28, 2005 04:00 PM

some of these are not funny these things are supossed to be funny

Posted by kelly beer on January 31, 2006 02:43 PM




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