COUNCILLOR ANDREW BURNS' REALLY BAD BLOG

(ex) CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCILLOR, ANDREW BURNS; FOUNTAINBRIDGE/CRAIGLOCKHART WARD 'EDINBURGH LABOUR GROUP' LEADER; & 'THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL' LEADER.

--- just very brief comments (both work & personal), as often as possible, that's all :-)

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Grove Street revisited ...

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The Grove Street planning application was up before the Sub-Committee again this morning - the full, amended report can be found here . The...

Deja Vu

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Schools in Edinburgh would be forgiven for thinking they are suffering from a severe bout of Deja Vu given the headlines in the local pape...

£3billion ... and rising ...

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I never cease to be amazed at just how little attention gets paid to the spiralling costs (and absolutely NOTHING has been built yet) of the...

BBC News website is 10

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The 10th-birthday story on the BBC News website yesterday - here - really caught my eye ... my own son was born in late 1997 and the story ...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Switching mobile 'phone provider ...

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I'm switching mobile 'phone provider tomorrow - keeping the same number! - but if I'm slower than usual in responding to any mes...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Word verification on ...

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Been a bit plagued by spam-comments over the last few days - so have had to turn on 'word verification' I'm afraid. I'll lea...
Saturday, October 27, 2007

Party time ...

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Saturday Party political event for most of today - always hugely popular at home :-( It was the second in what it appears will be a pretty ...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Third round of school building?

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I've posted about all of this extensively before , but should report that at yesterday's Full Council meeting there was unanimity (a...
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Gould Report (again!)

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I blogged about the Gould Report a couple of times earlier this week ... here and here . I see that Ron Gould himself has now written a let...

Tragedy of the Commons?

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Thinking more about denial ... I see the UN has a fairly worrying report out today that aptly reinforces the challenges facing us all. BBC ...

Climate of denial

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Well, it was indeed a long meeting - just after 7pm before the close of business :-( I do have to reflect whether there are possibly too ma...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Council Budget & Edinburgh University

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More preparatory 2008/09 budget meetings this morning ... I have to say, even though it's nearly November (and budget day is only about...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Another long-meeting this Thursday?

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October's Full Council meeting this Thursday - just look at the length of that (12-page!!) agenda :-( I sadly sense another very, very ...
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Hamster Houdini

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Not mentioned my media-starlet of a pet for a while ... ... well, this evening she managed to escape her cage yet again (amazing but true!...
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Gould update ...

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Several readers have been in touch re- my earlier post on the Gould Report ... basically saying that the report doesn't make it entirely...

Gould Report published

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The Scottish Elections Review (Gould Report) has been published this morning - full details are now up on the Electoral Commission's web...
Monday, October 22, 2007

... that really bad Burns

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Some wag has just pointed out to me, whilst hardly being able to control his merriment , that if you go to Google and search for: 'that ...
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The modern treadmill

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Back to the 'treadmill' today - Glen Orchy already seems a lifetime away and it's only 6.30pm on Monday evening :-( ... the th...
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