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

Good morning, Peterborough. Marcus Otonabee-Singh here on the Morning Wire, flowing to you from the Electric City.

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 that lets us really chart the course of our city, were… well, they were absent. It’s almost as if the sluice gates were closed.

### Waiting for the Tide

Without the usual reports from the city's open data portal, our focus has naturally shifted. We’ve been keeping a keen eye on the skies, which seems fitting for a city nestled along the river.

* Early in the week, there was an unmistakable dryness to the news flow.

* Later, our attention shifted to the weather, with advisories popping up.

* The specifics of these weather alerts have been a bit elusive, like mist over Little Lake.

We're navigating this week by what we *can* see and feel, much like our ancestors here on Chemong Lake watched for changes in the wind. We're waiting for the data to flow again, for the currents of information to return to their usual pace.

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

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