The chambers of commerce in both Inverness and Elgin made strong representations for the need to provide safer roads by duallling the A9 and A96.
Perhaps it’s time in Scotland for the main parties to come together to work together on the very difficult problems now facing us.
SNP MSP Fergus Ewing also discusses the latest on the A9 dualling project, in his latest column.
To re-think a flawed plan is not failure but the only way to avoid it becoming even worse, says veteran SNP MSP.
Statement on A96 did not fail to disappoint all except the Greens, says SNP MSP Fergus Ewing.
SNP MSP warns re-election of President Trump perhaps also sends a lesson to our own elites in Scotland and the UK.
The SNP MSP also assures Courier readers that he buys his own clothes and has never had a free ticket to a Taylor Swift concert.
However, the biggest blunder any government in the UK has made this century could be coming, fears the SNP MSP.
“They are a total menace”, a constituent told me at my surgery last week - seagulls.
Despite reports stating Inverness is out of the running, the SNP MSP doesn’t think that means giving up the fight yet.
Inverness never expected to be Europe’s oil and gas capital - nor should Aberdeen be the renewables capital, says SNP MSP.
The A9 dualling project and Post Office scandal are also topics for our MSP.
SNP leadership, end of the power-sharing agreement with the Greens and wood-burning stoves are among the hot topics for our MSP.
Last week in Holyrood, the Scottish Government bowed to the inevitable. Climate change targets for 2030, always unachievable, have now been scrapped.
Working together across party divides can bring results, says our MSP.
Fair to say the committee members, all of whom asked probing questions, were not overly impressed, says our MSP.
'If my constituents had wanted a doormat, they would have gone to B&Q!' says our MSP.
Last week, during the hullabaloo in Westminster, in Holyrood we debated the NHS and lack of NHS dentistry.
In nearly a quarter of a century in Holyrood I have never called upon anyone to resign as a Minister.
Staff usually drive up and back on the same day or have to stay over in hotels – that does not seem a practical or effective, says our columnist.