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"Both should’ve been cared for under the NHS and it’s a scandal that this two-tier situation exists."
"Of course your local government reorganisation is about centralisation, John."
"Half an hour of Sly’s audiobook a week is a lesson kids would never want to miss."
In the wake of the Scottish health secretary refusing to rule out the closure of Perth's A&E, Katy Gordon says it's time for some bare truths to be...
The Courier's Dundee-based court reporter, Ciaran Shanks, gives a very personal tribute to the sheriff, who died in September.
Katy Gordon says Chris Ahern's suggestion at a Perth and Kinross Council meeting won't make a problem go away.
The Courier's columnist says it's best to brace for disappointment when it comes to hopes being met.
Katy Gordon discusses why the Scottish Government needs to bring more information to the council reforms talks.
“While relentless positivity about our city can be useful, there comes a time the council - and others, including ourselves - must be held to...
"I’d like improvements, not a bigger and more confused mess."
"My firm belief is that private firms shouldn’t ever have been allowed to own vital areas of infrastructure like our ports in the first place."
Courier columnist Katy Gordon has her say on the failed vote for a moratorium on data centres.
"His party is stuffed with talentless student politicians who are feathering their nests with big salaries and pensions."
"The suggestion the basic tenets of democracy should be sacrificed for the preservation of the UK is forcing me to reconsider if we are indeed all...
"I wonder what it is about their highly-paid jobs disappearing that they don’t like?"
"I think my city is missing a trick when it comes to high-end options."
"Put NHS East in Edinburgh and John Swinney will only prove Andy Burnham right."
Scone Palace chief William Murray, Viscount Stormont, says it's time to start talking up Perth and Kinross ahead of a major economic summit this week.
"If the phrase 'use it or lose it' means anything, then tennis players here should worry about seeing some city courts disappearing."
Eljamel patients will sympathise with inquiry counsel Jamie Dawson KC’s frustration at Nicky Connor’s inability to provide a straight answer.
"A reorganisation won’t all be good...but it can’t be any worse."
Katy Gordon argues that people working from home isn't the main reason why businesses in Perth are seeing a downturn.
"Efficiency bought at the price of local knowledge and accountability can prove extremely expensive."
"Somewhere in Dundee, children have opened and do open books because of Dolly Parton."
"Those halcyon days were replaced with responsibilities..."
"Success breeds success, so the university’s struggles are as welcome as a kick in the Bonar Halls as far as the city’s prospects are concerned."
"The idea that ministers should subsidise the work of the state from their salaries is not fiscal responsibility. It is political theatre."
"Cyclists flock to surveys – hoping to give the impression that the public wants more, more, and yet more, active travel routes."
"Nowhere in his online diatribe did the Reform figure provide any evidence for his claims, nor has he at any point since."
"Scottish Labour is now on the verge of extinction."
Katy Gordon on how difficult it will be to make Dundee Airport a popular place to fly from.
"If that means building more prisons, then so be it."
In the wake of the Perthshire Pride controversy, Katy Gordon takes a look at the Scottish Family Party and their ideology.
"It’s a bit like watching your parents bickering. Regardless of who’s right or wrong, you just want it to stop."
"If you walk around Dundee with a Starbucks, Costa or Caffe Nero-branded coffee cup, you’re a traitor to your city."
"Partnership could show the city of Dundee how such projects might be tackled with common sense and collaboration instead of delay and obfuscation."
Katy Gordon talks about Culture Perth and Kinross trying to find a third operator for its flagship museum eatery.
"Michael is a fellow Dundonian and Dundee United fan...but he was also responsible for Labour’s insipid Holyrood election manifesto."
"Marra has a sharp intellect and knows the city of Dundee and its problems inside out."
Katy Gordon looks at the proposal for Auchtertool and how planning bosses need a rethink on big developments.
When the sun shines in Scotland, Martel Maxwell discovers that a wee corner in the East Neuk is every bit as good as heading to the continent.
Columnist Murray Foote is not impressed by Labour's change with Andy Burnham, or Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar's flit to the Lords.
"There’s a worrying trend towards labelling all youngsters as potentially problematic, but that fear is wildly exaggerated."
Katy Gordon says the Scottish Prison Service needs to explain more about its decision-making in the wake of the killer's attack while on temporary...
"Investigations have exposed corruption, challenged miscarriages of justice, exposed MPs’ expenses, uncovered abuse and held powerful institutions...
Katy Gordon slams the remarks made by Rupert Lowe about the 1996 tragedy.
"When we were 13, our world felt exciting. When our children are 13, our world feels dangerous."
"You can clearly see councillors' struggle between the obvious needs of their city and robotic adherence to party doctrine."
"I'm not entirely convinced that saying the bare minimum on the Murrell situation is the wisest course of action."
"If we want dynamic city centres and high streets, we have to bring life back into them."
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