Reevely: Watson's latest budget doesn't use the old tricks to hide problems — it uses new ones

Fixing the roads isn’t a sexy election-year promise, but it’s Jim Watson to a tee. Odd, then, that the 2018 city budget the mayor presented Wednesday includes a cut to road maintenance.
“The changing weather patterns have created major challenges in maintaining our roads, pathways and community infrastructure,” Watson said in his budget speech. “The abundance of rain and spring flooding, the extraordinary amount of snow, and the number of freeze-thaw cycles has sign