Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Corporate Policy and Strategy Committee next Tuesday

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  December's Corporate Policy and Strategy Committee is next Tuesday 3rd  ... ... all the papers are now in the public domain: main ...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Allotment, running (and general) update

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Pretty busy weekend of work-related commitments and deadlines ... ... but we did manage to catch some (brief) time at the Allotment , ve...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

November Leader's Report

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November 2013   Festive Capital Once again the eyes of the world will be upon us. From the illumination of Edinburgh's ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

November's Full Council Meeting

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November's Full Council Meeting is coming up - 10am on Thursday 21st November ... ... all the reports are now up on Committee Paper...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Corporate Policy and Strategy Committee

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November's Corporate Policy and Strategy Committee coming up on Tuesday 5th ... ... all the papers are now published: main Agenda c...
Monday, October 21, 2013

More democracy here please!

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I've got a short, reflective article on democracy, the referendum, and what's really important --- for me, anyhow! ---over on the...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Allotment (+running) update

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Last of this year's potato crop lifted late yesterday afternoon ... need to start getting the leaf mould dug into those beds now! Oth...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Scotland Loves Anime

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My all-too-brief visit to the World Cafe , was due to having tickets to go and see one of the ' Scotland Loves Anime ' films at th...

North Edinburgh World Cafe

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Managed to briefly visit the North Edinburgh"World Cafe" last night - details as per the flyer above - which has occasional ...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Council Leaders Report - October

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October 2013 Cooperative Council   My Capital Coalition colleagues and I realised when we took office that we had to have ...

October Full Council Meeting

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October Full Council Meeting is next Thursday the 24th ... ... main agenda is now available here ; with the full set of Reports accessi...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Co-operative Capital - "One Year On" review meeting

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Have had a "Co-operative Capital - One Year On " review meeting in the City Chambers today ... ... very well attended event - wi...
Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Congratulations Peter Higgs

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Many, many congratulations to Professor Peter Higgs, who has received the Nobel Prize for Physics today :-) My colleague, Donald Wilson...
Sunday, October 06, 2013

Allotment Autumn-update

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Been a busy weekend, with the Co-operative Party 's UK-conference being up here in Edinburgh ... ... all seems to have gone well, ...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

National Poetry Day

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Its National Poetry Day today --- and this year's theme is: water .   As per the last few years , I'll reproduce my favourite p...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

UPDATE - Co-operative Council Innovation Network

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I mentioned the Co-operative Council Innovation Network a few weeks ago - and also posted up the speech I gave at a recent event in Gl...

Let's talk about saving and spending

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I've highlighted the publication of our Draft 2014/15 Budget proposals on several occasions now ... ... pleased to report that th...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Another 2-Party Labour/SNP Council Coalition

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Very interesting developments at Dumfries and Galloway Council earlier today - BBC report can be accessed here ... ... all means that E...