| Scots do not want to end the Union, merely modify it
IT'S time. Time for a change. Time to move on. This is the last column from this writer which will appear in this position in this paper. A new and extremely challenging role on the business desk awaits.Sadly, it means no time for the glorious self-indulgence of expressing a weekly opinion on the affairs of the nation.The world of politics is a continuously fascinating one. There is always something new. Political parties take power and always, in the end, lose it. Politicians' fortunes ebb and flow. Plots and conspiracies abound. Policies evolve and change.Over time, the decisions made by our elected representatives really do "make a difference", a phrase politicians use frequently, to the lives of the poor, long-suffering voters whose interests they are supposed to represent. Politics matters.And having spent many years at both Westminster and Holyrood as a reporter – and worked, albeit for only a year, on the "dark side" as a special adviser to former First Minister Henry McLeish – politics had become like a drug.
International Energy Efficiency Award 2008 -- Call for Applicants
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The German Energy Agency (Deutsche Energie Agentur GmbH or dena) is calling for participants in the international competition for the Energy Efficiency Award 2008. The award, in its second year, recognizes outstanding projects to increase energy efficiency in trade and industry. A total of 30,000 euros in prizes is available. The international competition is particularly aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises. If you have invested in innovative, exemplary measures to increase energy efficiency in your company and implemented these measures successfully, then organizers want to recognize you. The deadline to enter is January 31, 2008. A prize of 15,000 euros will go to the first-place winner, 10,000 euros to the second-place winner and 5,000 euros to third place.
AFD Rules Arson For NAACP Headquarters Fire
The two-story house next door to the headquarters is a total loss after it caught fire around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. The building is at 1706 E. 12th St. Flames from the building jumped over to damage the Mount Carmel Masonic Lodge, which houses the offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Austin fire investigators have no suspects in the arson. "I see a lot of the other sisters and brothers that are coming out, and it's just a support thing," said Marlah Neal, a neighbor. It is eye opening for Neal to stare at a structure that is nothing now. "I don't think it was toward the NAACP building, but I clearly think it was toward what's going on here," Neal said. "I'm mad!" Neal is upset with the suspect or suspects who investigators said torched the building.
Ex-Circulair owner James Larkin vanishes after flight to Hong Kong
A Chicago fan manufacturer wants to pay its former owner more than $3 million, but there's a hitch: He has vanished.
Relatives of James Larkin say he was last seen boarding a flight to Hong Kong with his second wife last fall just a few months after he suffered a debilitating stroke. Neither checked bags for the trip, the family later learned.
On Wednesday, a Cook County probate judge, agreeing the case constituted an emergency, appointed Larkin's brother, Jerome, a prominent Chicago attorney, as his temporary guardian.
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