It was hot and humid down at Laman Street today and the boys in blue – Just. Doing. Their. Jobs. – had to sit and rest in the shade of some dangerous fig trees. A community member sent this photo. (more…)
Archive for January, 2012
The Boys in Blue were here ii 31.1.2012
January 31, 2012The Boys in Blue were here 31.1.2012
January 31, 2012
NBN TV: DRAMATIC END TO FIG BATTLE
January 31, 2012An enduring image – giving the council and security guys and police and ‘arborists’ cutting down trees the finger.
Karma will get them all.
The Police and machinery are in the street 31.1.2012
January 31, 2012I just had a call to say it’s on.
Wonder if the Herald knew about this because their journalist told me yesterday they’d decided to start going down to the street as of this morning.
How proud Newcastle City Council wil be when this is over.
Gotta go. Home
No news is good news 30.1.2012
January 30, 2012
Herald front page 21 July 2011
The only action in Laman Street today was the Fig Watch group sitting in the hot sun and some security guards walking up and down in the shade. (more…)
The Night Before Laman Street’s Vandalism? 30.1.2012
January 29, 2012
Laman Street seen from Civic Park
Are you coming to breakfast in Laman Street at 4:30? (more…)
Media release: risk assessments out of date: 27.1.2012
January 27, 2012
An oldie but a goodie: one of my greatest honours: banned from a chainsaw website
MEDIA RELEASE
Newcastle City Council can’t say the Laman Street trees are unsafe:
NO risk assessment is current (more…)
Bottom drawers and community consultation 27.1.2012
January 27, 2012
I just sent a submission to Council’s draft community engagement charter:
bottom drawer here we come. (more…)
Laughing Stocks 25.1.2012
January 25, 2012The General Manager spent thousands of ratepayer dollars today to put a full-page ad on page 24 of the Herald today to tell the community that everything’s OK – Council is ‘very comfortable’ with how stupid it looks its four – oh, no: not four – reports on Laman Street, and to tell residents ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy: protest respectfully; we vandals are Just Doing Our Job’. (more…)
LET RESIDENTS DECIDE THE FATE OF THE FIGS
January 24, 2012LET RESIDENTS DECIDE THE FATE OF THE FIGS.
Lord Mayor John Tate will be discussing with the GM leaving the Laman St trees till the next election and taking the question of the future of the trees to the voters.
Cr Buman disagrees. Unsurprising.
He likes the idea of A Decision.
Any Decision.
Apparently it doesn’t matter if it’s the Wrong Decision. Doesn’t matter if new information comes to light.
If a decision is wrong in the beginning, it stays wrong.
Watch out for the day the community picket line forms.
