Putting people in charge of budgets
It’s time for “participatory budgeting” to move up a notch argues SUSAN RAE. I cannot ever imagine a time when participatory budgeting will be sexy. I’d love to see a march on the city chambers with banners declaiming “We demand participatory budgeting! Now!”. But I concede I might wait a while. It’s a pity, in…
Leith Walk is unique!
Green candidate for the Leith Walk by-election, Susan Rae, argues that there is nowhere quite like Leith Walk. As a local resident, naturally, I think Leith Walk is unique. Nowhere else has quite the same mix of people, local businesses and community groups in such a compact area. Now the council ward of the same…