I can’t tell you how to vote. I can only tell you how I am going to vote. And why.

Over the last couple of years, at their request, I sat down for coffee with five of the seven candidates running for mayor, three of them more than once.

Each has something worthwhile to offer. The one I find who has the most to offer is Michael Eamon.

Peterborough being at the juncture it is, with significant challenges both inside and outside of city hall, is going to need someone with the skills I believe Eamon has to lead us to a new start. To see with fresh eyes what has to be done to meet those challenges.

We are going to need someone with backbone, who, through extensive experience, understands bureaucracy, who can work with others, who knows how to build bridges that lead to consensus, who can read a budget, who can see the big picture as well as the........

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