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Here are the relevant links if you'd like to go deeper:

Talus Dome

• Professor says Talus Dome must be moved or vandalism ‘will happen again’
• Petition: Move Edmonton's Talus Dome to a Better Location

Heritage Festival barn

• ‘We’re keeping the barn’: City reverses decision to take barn from Heritage Festival

Council Reports

• Project and Policy Tracking System Options (no news articles for this one, weird how journalists are not chomping at the bit to write about the minutia of the mechanisms by which council gets reports)

Southside Bike Grid

• 'We need a win-win solution here': Residents push back against south side bike grid
• Bike lanes on main streets? Debate over 109 Street questions basic Edmonton approach to cycling

Centre LRT

• City gives up on Centre Line LRT bridge over river, for now

Playground Zones

• 68 of 163 standalone playground speed zones may not be necessary, city staff find
• Council opts to keep playground zones, will focus only on "anomalous" playground zones

Speaking Municipally is produced by Taproot Edmonton, a home for curiosity-driven stories about our city, cultivated by the community. In addition to this podcast, Taproot publishes the Council Roundup every week. Sign up to get it delivered by email for free. Here's the August 17, 2018 edition.

City Council has to walk back several decisions made by city administration like removing the memorial bench plaques and the Heritage Festival barn evictions. Mack and Troy also take a look forward at the big issues that will be coming up this year.

Here are the relevant links if you'd like to go deeper:

Heritage Festival access

• Heritage Festival boss saw easier access for crowd upward of 300,000

Memorial bench plaques

• Memorial bench sticker shock: Families asked to pay upkeep decades after original purchase

Heritage Festival barn

• Iveson 'pissed off' about city's move to evict Heritage Festival from storage barn
• Paula Simons: Closing the barn door: Heritage Festival told to leave its Hawrelak Park HQ

Other Frustrating Admin Decisions

• Cheque, please: City ends lease deal on Dogwood Café
• Policy C566: Speed Reduction Policy

Budget 2019-2022

• Edmonton’s 4-year budget described as ‘tight’ as council begins deliberations
• Edmonton business group urges city hall to put the brakes on rising property taxes

City Planning

• Vision 2050
• Municipal Development Plan
• Transportation Master Plan

Separated organics

• Edmonton's 'Cadillac system' of garbage collection likely coming to an end, mayor says

Residential speed limits

• City of Edmonton inches closer to lower limits on local roads

Speaking Municipally is produced by Taproot Edmonton, a home for curiosity-driven stories about our city, cultivated by the community. In addition to this podcast, Taproot publishes the Council Roundup every week. Sign up to get it delivered by email for free. Here's the August 10, 2018 edition.

Speaking Municipally is our pilot weekly podcast digging into the how's and why's of Edmonton politics.

Your hosts are Troy Pavlek and Mack Male who could graciously be described as "competent".

Each week we'll give you a short version of what happened this week that we think you should care about, and we'll dig in and discuss why it matters.

We're available wherever podcasts are sold - and submitting to as many new places as possible! If we're not available where you prefer to listen to podcasts, let us know! We'll get there.

Back here on August 10th. See you then.