We found out how some of our municipal tax dollars are being spent: competing with justFRED and the city's other media outlets.

Fredericton Tourism's web site now includes a 700+ business directory - with dynamic maps (just like 0urs) - and during a meeting with the city's administrator, Paul Stapleton, we learned that the promotions people have also purchased video equipment and plan to begin producing promotional videos (just like ours).

They claim they're not competing with us using our tax dollars. But they also admit the city's tourism web site doesn't even link to justFRED's 20,000 photos and videos of Fredericton and the people who live and visit the city. Which is what you'd expect from a competitor.

They're about to find out that keeping the business listings and photos up to date is a time consuming and costly exercise that never ends. Can you say 'property tax increase'?

Cheers,
George