| The SNP and the mystery of the vanishing bobbies
THE Scottish Government suffered a major and embarrassing setback yesterday when Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, admitted his long-awaited plan to put an additional 1,000 police on Scotland's streets might not deliver a single extra officer. .
Cheaper electricity touted
Now, in hopes of prompting legislators to move on the measure, the Lexington Electric Utility Ad-hoc Committee is touting its review of electricity costs at 12 area high schools from July 2006 through June 2007, which found that schools served by a municipal electric company, or muni, paid about half of the average 18 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity that those served by NStar were charged. NStar is an investor-owned utility. "The study clearly shows that it's not just residential users who would save money with munis," said Patrick Mehr, a longtime advocate for municipal electric companies and member of the ad hoc committee. "Cities, towns, and the state would also save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year - money they could be put to much better use." The study included a review of electricity costs at public high schools in the Acton-Boxborough, Belmont, Brookline, Concord-Carlisle, Lexington, Lincoln-Sudbury, Newton (Newton North and Newton South), Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, and Winchester districts.
Changes hit higher education
In an organizing election held in May 2007 voters approved of the new college and elected a board of trustees.The community college still has to be approved by the Legislature after it receives a recommendation by the commissioner of higher learning.A new community college moving toward reality raised some questions, and regents decided it was time to take a look at two-year education in the state, said Arlene Parisot, director of two-year education in the commissioner's office.At a meeting in Helena on Jan. 10, regents began talking about a strategic planning process for two-year education, a discussion that will continue at the regents' meeting in March.Montana has three types of two-year post-secondary institutions:• Three community colleges in Miles City, Glendive and Kalispell.• Five colleges of technology in Billings, Butte, Missoula, Great Falls and Helena.• Seven tribal colleges at Crow Agency, Lame Deer, Box Elder, Harlem, Poplar, Pablo and Browning.Each set of two-year campuses is governed and funded differently from the others.Colleges of Technology receive funding from the state and from tuition and fees.
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