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What's Regina City Hall doing when it's *this* quiet?

Your City Hall's been mighty quiet, eh?

Hey there, Regina. Darlene Chicken-Lawson here, on the Morning Wire. This is Regina — yeah, we know what it sounds like, and we've heard your joke. Now sit down and listen.

Well, if you've been tuning in this week, you know it's been a little quieter down at City Hall, eh? Quieter than a *mistatim* tiptoeing through the prairie tallgrass. No big announcements, no fiery debates about property taxes or that new infill development near the Warehouse District. Just… crickets.

### What’s the word from City Hall?

It’s been pretty consistent:

* **Barely a peep:** The usual flurry of council meetings, committee reports, they’ve all been pretty subdued.

* **Waiting game:** Feels like everyone’s holding their breath for something to drop, eh?

* **The calm before the storm?:** Or maybe just a regular slow week, you know? Sometimes it happens.

The only real buzz has been about the weather, and oh for Pete's sake, you know how that goes in March. But from our civic leaders? Not much. Makes you wonder what they're cooking up behind those big doors at Victoria Park.

So yeah, no big *wâhkôhtowin* gatherings or groundbreaking policy changes to report this time around. Just the usual Regina hum.

Darlene Chicken-Lawson, signing off from the Morning Wire. You can catch more of our local insights every morning, live.

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