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"Council must sense that the mood music on the issue of immigration has changed in Dundee and elsewhere."
"It's fair to say agents of the British State are eyed with varying degrees of suspicion by the independence movement in Scotland."
"Football chants have never been known for empathy or logic but this one irritated me more than it ought."
“The Loganair flights were subsidised and still often more costly than a budget trip to New York.”
NHS Fife attempted to keep internal conversations about its controversial, 1,700-word statement on the Sandie Peggie tribunal secret.
"I'm on the side of the campaigners. But this doesn't mean I'm naive to the issues with the current Glover Street facility."
"Returning their cash would be a symbolic demonstration that Marra has serious intentions."
The Courier's Alasdair Clark argues SNP council reform could help St Andrews turn into an economic engine that powers the region.
Katy Gordon explains that while the move has good intentions, it is not a good idea.
"I can scarcely think of a gloomier and more dispiriting place to live, irrespective of whether I was a student or a long-term tenant."
The Courier's columnist says the reaction to the transport secretary's difficult Holyrood appearance was overblown by the BBC, which shouldn't 'hunt...
The system designed to protect children from the likes of "master manipulator" Amanda Mathewson failed spectacularly.
"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."
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