Friday, November 30, 2012

First Petitions Committee meeting next week

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Hooray! - first petition to be heard next week ... details below: FIRST VALID PETITION TO BE CONSIDERED IN EDINBURGH Date   30/N...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Craiglockhart CC and a focus on Craighouse

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Busy week coming up ... and amidst all the city-wide issues, one local planning application is going to feature strongly at Tuesday night...

Strictly addiction :-(

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Sadly, the strictly addiction has now struck again this year :-( Having watched (in-passing with Junior, of course!) endless episodes o...
Friday, November 23, 2012

2012 City Council Staff Awards for Excellence

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Attended the 2012 City Council Staff Awards last week - great night at the Assembly Rooms - and all the shortlisted finalists, and eventu...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Full Council webcast tomorrow at 10am

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November's Full Council Meeting is tomorrow at 10am, and - of course - you can watch the whole meeting live at: http://www.edinburgh....
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Capital Coalition pledges - monitoring now live

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We also promised to make sure all of our 53 pledges (from the Coalition Agreement ) were openly monitored and public scrutiny of such was...

Capital Coalition - draft budget proposals now published

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Well - we committed to publishing a full draft budget several months before the Council has to set its formal budget (on Thursday 7th Febr...

London weekend

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Back in Edinburgh this evening after a weekend down in London ... attending the Electoral Reform Society Annual General Meeting . Enjoya...

Local 'guerrilla garden' removed - update

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This local issue has attracted quite a bit of attention in my own Ward this past week ... the removal of a 'guerrilla garden'? ...
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

November Leader's Report

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November 2012 Making good on Pledges - Living Wage I made a commitment to update you on the Capital Coalition’s 'Contract with ...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Full Council reports now available

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Full Council papers for the November meeting - this coming Thursday (22nd) - now all up on Committee Papers on Line (CPOL): main agenda he...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Remembrance Sunday and Allotment Robin

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Attended the Remembrance Sunday events at the City Chambers and St.Giles Cathedral this morning - a sombre and reflective few hours. ...
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Thursday, November 08, 2012

Edinburgh set to introduce the Living Wage

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Published Thursday 8 November 2012 Edinburgh set to introduce the living wage Thousands of Council staff are set to benefit from the ...
Monday, November 05, 2012

Petitions Committee meeting soon!

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The first meeting of the new Petitions Committee is coming up in early December ... good to see that there are a couple of live (valid)...
Sunday, November 04, 2012

Allotment Sunday

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Did indeed manage to get a bit of time down at the Allotment this afternoon. And it really was a glorious Autumnal scene ... here'...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Saturday Fireworks

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Spent the evening over at Corstorphine for a small family fireworks-display ... here's a shot of one of the larger 'fountains...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Webcast, democracy and equal pay

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Yesterday's Full Council Meeting still available to watch on the internet ... go on, you know you want to ? You can quickly go to a...
Monday, October 22, 2012

October 2012 Leader's Report

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October Leader's Report now up on CPOL - you can see it as a PDF here , text is also below, and don't forget you can watch this Thu...