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one-paragraph editorial – bc budget cuts

Keith Higgins — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:59:02 +0000

These cuts to the arts, community services, health, education and so on are not a matter of government paying for the financial crisis. What they are really paying for is tax cuts, just like the cuts in 2001-02. The BC Liberals cripple the ability of government to collect revenue, then degrade basic services, then sting the poor and middle class with new user fees and taxes, then at the end of four years they deliver some kind of small benefit, and a budget surplus, which somehow evaporates right after the election, then the whole mess starts over. Binge and purge. All for the sake of delivering government assets to their associates, and making sure that important party donors get their taxes reduced.

making trouble

Keith Higgins — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:04:45 +0000

No one can act in the margins or the periphery without having to confront powerful interests, officialdom, some form of unwritten social convention, or even the commerce that exists and is embedded within its subculture. Acting out is, by its very premise, a form of liberty and an attempt to articulate freedom.

This is a quote from one of Artspeak Gallery’s “Postscript” publications, this one by Am Johal. Thought the whole thing was pretty excellent — the complete text is here.

Christmas 1987 – Christmas 2006

Keith Higgins — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:53:12 +0000

kathyslade.com

Keith Higgins — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:30:23 +0000

After a few years of sitting on the kathyslade.com domain name, we finally have put a small site together. So, here’s where you should go if you want to know about Kathy Slade.