No City Hall Friday Memo from last week; Council Meeting tonight

Evidently with the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, no Friday Memo was published last week by City Hall/Joel Walinski.

I got a City Commons monthly newsletter in the mail recently but I don’t see the Nov. issue online in the listing of 2008 What’s New documents. [Sigh]

NOTE! There’s a City Council meeting tonight.

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