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Your City Hall felt dry this week. What's really happening?

Your City Hall week felt a little dry, didn't it?

Here's the thing about Peterborough, sometimes the flow of information from City Hall feels like the Otonabee at spring runoff, and other times, it's more like a quiet eddy. This past week definitely felt like the latter. The usual currents of fresh civic data, the kind we rely on to understand how our city is moving, were noticeably absent. It’s almost like the open data portal itself decided to take a little breather.

But even in a quiet week, there are always some deeper currents at play, aren't there? We've been tracking a consistent theme of housing and home, and how folks are finding their place here in the Electric City. The Canadian Real Estate Association gave us a peek into those waters earlier in the week, showing us the flow of people settling into new homes.

Even when the surface seems still, the river is always moving, always shaping the land. We keep watching for those deeper movements.

This is the Electric City — small town, big current. Let's go.

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