Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Leap Year Day!

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Leap Year Day , today ... and some things (thankfully!) have remained reasonably constant: *   4-years ago , I was rotavating a newly-aqui...

9-weeks tomorrow

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9-weeks tomorrow, or 63-days to be precise, until Local Government Polling Day on Thursday 3rd May 2012. I posted about the main Parties...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Policy and Strategy Committee

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Policy and Strategy Committee meeting earlier this morning ... all the papers can be accessed here , with the main agenda here . Most deba...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Carbon emissions and energy generation

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Been trying not to cross-reference to the main Edinburgh Labour site too much ... but please, if you're so interested, do keep an eye ...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Scotland V France

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Managed to go and see the Scotland V France rugby international this afternoon ... ... somewhat depressing event; Scotland played reasona...
Friday, February 24, 2012

COSLA and the Edinburgh Award

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COSLA Leaders pre-meeting this morning ... packed business agenda, but most discussion/debate around wider political issues. And attended ...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Merchant Company hustings

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Another hustings event this evening - organised by the Merchant Company , which took place in their grand Merchant Hall on Hanover Street ....
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

3,000 fewer affordable homes

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Congratulations are due to the City Council for handing over some Council house keys - the PR-spin is here ... ... but, you won't hea...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Local parking pressures

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Transport Committee has now revisited the long-running saga of parking pressures in the local Shandon area ... affects me, both as a Local...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Party-flats and some hope for consensus?

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Down the Royal Mile at Holyrood earlier this morning for a meeting which Sarah Boyack had organised, on the seemingly intractable issue of...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Its Sunday, so it must be the "Allotment Update" :-)

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In the midst of what seemed like endless data-entry, following a great few-days campaigning, I did manage to sneak a couple of hours down at...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Fountainbridge Canalside Initiative 'Brewing New Life’ event

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Managed to get along (for a short while) to an event organised by the 'Fountainbridge Canalside Initiative' this aftenroon - entitle...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Edinburgh South West NP Transport sub-committee

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Edinburgh South West Neighbourhood Partnership (NP) Transport sub-committee earlier ... ... well attended and good, involved discussion ...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Elections Consultative Group Meeting

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Elections Consultative Group Meetings now becoming a little more frequent ... not long to go, after all! Pleased to see that some sense h...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The number one priority?

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Deeply depressing employment figures out again today - more details on the overall position in Scotland here and here ... with Edinburgh...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Listening and responding ...

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Managed to get along to a small presentation event this afternoon where the Council was awarded the " 2011 Adoption of Best Practice Aw...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Keeping the Capital prosperous

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My colleague, Councillor Norma Hart (our Economic Development Spokesperson), has a piece up on the main Edinburgh Labour website today whic...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

STV, snowdrops and snow

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Back in Edinburgh after an enjoyable few days down in London - so much colder down there at the moment! ERS Meetings on Friday/Saturday a...