Highlands and Islands need a return to joined-up thinking
KATE Forbes is quite correct to state the needs of Highland communities must be addressed urgently
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KATE Forbes is quite correct to state the needs of Highland communities must be addressed urgently
Jim McClure View Comments Leading businessman George S. Schmidt liked the way York was heading in the Gay Nineties, five years after it had become a city. But he felt some folks had held too firmly to the past for decades and, in fact, were still doing so. "'Let well enough alone' was a motto which we devotedly followed for a hundred years and which might well have been engraven on our borough seal," he wrote in the daily York Gazette in February 1892. He didn't stop there. "We lived a life as placid and contented as it was narrow and bigoted," he wrote, "and blindly sacrificed on the altar o...