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Birmingham does cranes…and skills debates

  • 27th February 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Birmingham chamber of commerce, Black Country LEP, Centre for Cities, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
If you walk around Birmingham city centre, you can’t help but bump into one of two things. A building site (complete with obligatory crane) or a debate on skills, writes

Combined Authorities ARE local government: WMCA CEO learns the hard way

  • 26th February 2018
  • Chris Game
  • #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Councils, Devolution, Featured, local government, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
Want a recipe for a one-day conference leaving your austerity-battered punters feeling both happy and entertained?  Try this: pick a plush venue in London Town, get one of your three

Combined Authorities ARE local government: WMCA CEO learns the hard way

  • 26th February 2018
  • Chris Game
  • #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Councils, Devolution, Featured, local government, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
Want a recipe for a one-day conference leaving your austerity-battered punters feeling both happy and entertained?  Try this: pick a plush venue in London Town, get one of your three

Send for Allardyce! We’re topping the wrong league tables

  • 22nd February 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Andy Street, Centre for Cities, Featured, LEPs, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
As you’ll have noticed, it’s the awards season. We’ve had the BAFTAs and the Brits, there’s the Oscars on March 4th, and climactically, just four days later, it’s the Birmingham

Inclusivity or productivity – or both?

  • 22nd February 2018
  • Beverley Nielsen
  • Andy Street, Featured, LEPs, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
Increasing labour productivity has been the holy grail of government policy for many years. Despite a 0.9% increase to September 2017 we have so far failed to regain pre-financial crisis

Teamwork becomes slightly more taxing

  • 10th February 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Cllr Ian Ward, Cllr Roger Lawrence, Devolution, Featured, News, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
Yesterday’s meeting of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) confirmed at least one political truth for Mayor Andy Street, writes Kevin Johnson. This West Midlands teamwork thing is becoming more

Car, Sprint or Streetcars

  • 8th February 2018
  • Beverley Nielsen
  • Andy Street, Featured, Laura Shoaf, Midland Metro, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport, WMCA
Beverley Nielsen, the Lib Dem candidate for West Midlands Mayor last year, looks at ‘intermediate options’ on transport for Mayor Street. Historic transport policy decisions in the West Midlands seem

A brand new Countdown begins

  • 6th February 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Recommended, WMCA
It was at 4.45pm on 2nd November 1982 that Channel 4 started broadcasting. I remember as I made sure I was back from school and playing with friends to see

Plans for Mayoral Precept scrapped for 2018/19

  • 2nd February 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Devolution, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
The plan to fund costs of the Mayoral Office through a Precept on all Council Tax bills across the West Midlands has been abandoned for the next financial year, reports

Keeping the West Midlands moving

  • 31st January 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Devolution, Featured, George Osborne, HS2, Laura Shoaf, Midland Metro, News, Northern Powerhouse, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
Against the backdrop of big bids, some won and others in battle, and political fallout from the Mayor’s attempt to secure a precept, it could be forgotten that transport remains
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