The Chip Martin Bio Chip Martin remembers well the admonition from his Grade 10 English teacher back at Richmond Hill High School. Many, many years later those oft-repeated words rang in one ear while editor Rob Paynter's voice filled the other, urging Chip to switch from city hall reporter to city hall columnist. Ultimately, the voice controlling the pay cheque prevailed over the one from the past. Chip has been annoying Free Press readers with his opinions ever since.
Chip is a bit of a contrarian.
He doesn't go with the flow. Chip enjoys skewering folks who think they have all the answers, the smug, the sanctimonious, the ideologues and those who are altogether too full of themselves. In a totalitarian revolution, he would probably be one of the first to be locked up. Chip first covered London city hall in the mid-70s and by the year 2000 will have watched councils perform in four decades. The show hasn't improved.