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  Scotland on Sunday - Business - INTERVIEW: Andy Kerr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Kerr, who ran Glasgow Tech’s student union, is in the process of completing his spending review and has fellow cabinet ministers knocking on the door trying to win more cash for their departments.
Kerr is married to Susan, a teacher, and they have three girls under the age of nine.
Kerr’s attempts to argue that Scottish businesses were not at a disadvantage to their English counterparts was slammed by the business community.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /business.cfm?id=568282002   (1181 words)

  
 Mail Tribune News - New Ashlander Kerr still aims to check growth
Kerr, whose first book, a guide to 70 hikes in Oregon's high deserts, will be published this spring, is also working on two books about the state's forests.
Reared in the mill town of Creswell, Kerr is the son of a retired Willamette Valley builder.
Kerr, who was once arrested during an environmental protest in former U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield's office, was labeled a "white-collar terrorist" in a 1989 issue of Time magazine because of his leadership in administrative appeals and lawsuits against what he perceived
www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/oct99/102799n2.htm   (604 words)

  
 East Kilbride   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Andy Kerr was seen to be a Blairite loyalist who could be relied upon to toe the London line.
Initially Andy Kerr was seen as an MSP to watch but blotted his copybook when he obtained something of a reputation for asking planted questions in the parliament.
Kerr redeemed himself in the public eye when, in January 2001, as convenor of the parliament's transport and environment committee, he led a backbench rebellion against plans to contract out the care and maintenance of Scotland's trunk roads.
www.alba.org.uk /scot03constit/c04.html   (1148 words)

  
 Expanded Biography for Andrew Kerr at Holland & Knight
Kerr is an active participant in the American Bar Association's Council of Appellate Lawyers.
Kerr is Chair of the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation and a Sustaining Life Fellow of that organization.  He is also a Fellow of the American and San Antonio Bar Foundations.  Mr.
Kerr serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Northeast Educational Foundation.  He also serves as Church Attorney for the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.  He is a member of the Rotary Club of San Antonio and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Alamo Heights Little League. 
www.hklaw.com /Biographies/ExpandedBio.asp?ID=95362   (292 words)

  
 East Kilbride
Andy Kerr was born in East Kilbride in 1962.
Andy is a member of Unison and is married and has three daughters.
From November 2001, Andy Kerr served as Finance Minister and was appointed as Minister for Health and Community Care in October 2004.
www.scottishlabour.org.uk /eastkilbride1   (154 words)

  
 Statement of Andy Kerr, Senior Counselor on Klamath Falls [Free Republic]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Kerr was an intelligent boy, a student government officer and a bit of a prankster.
Kerr was outraged that in April 2000, the government would tie dollars that communities need for schools and roads to what he considers the destruction of a natural resource.
Kerr is the one who came up with the term "Rider from Hell," to describe a 1989 rider, or amendment, drafted by Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore., to prohibit conservationists from seeking court injunctions against logging for a year.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b647786182c.htm   (9315 words)

  
 Klamath Valley Farm Land Buyout - The Big Business behind the ONRC and Andy Kerr [Free Republic]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Andy Kerr, lobbying Washington D.C. as the Larch Company LLC for the ONRC is seeking a $840 million buyout of the farmers.
Kerr was dubbed an "environmental terrorist" by the media when he publicized the spotted owl's plight in his successful battle to curb the clear-cutting of the Pacific Northwest's ancient forests.
Andy Kerr: "Environmentalists can be hell to live with, but they make great ancestors." While Kerr has been portrayed as an enemy of economic realities -- and burned in effigy as such -- in fact, he is keenly attuned to social and economic needs.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b61dbb04601.htm   (5238 words)

  
 Mail Tribune News - Anti-growth group urges: Save Oregon
In town Sunday for a workshop at the Ashland Community Center, Kerr and other members of AGO spoke out against the social and economic forces they say have threatened to ruin the quality of life for residents of the Rogue Valley.
The root cause is population growth, according to Kerr, who notes the Northwest is repopulating at twice the rate of the nation.
Kerr, a native webfoot from Creswell and former head of the Oregon Natural Resources Council, dismisses the idea that his group is specifically against California emigrants.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/apr99/41299n2.htm   (537 words)

  
 Forest Magazine Article: A Rancher's Decision
But Kerr, the stocky, bearded veteran of the Northwest timber wars, has been delivering grim punch lines for the environmental movement for more than a quarter of a century.
Kerr has the solution, a big-tent approach, built on that framework of gloomy statistics.
Kerr says that a few people have called to ask when they can get their payments, not realizing that the plan is just in the talking stage.
www.fseee.org /forestmag/0305livestocklarge.shtml   (1832 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Andy Kerr was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, received his elementary education in Carlisle, Pa., and was graduated from Dickinson College.
In 1926, Washington and Jefferson induced Andy to return to the East as its head coach of football and basketball.
Many of the gridiron innovations Andy Kerr pioneered are still major weapons in the arsenal of the sport.
athletics.colgate.edu /hohback/pages/kerr.htm   (324 words)

  
 The Key (1934 b 71')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Andy Kerr (Colin Clive) tells his wife Norah (Edna Best) he killed Kirby.
Tennant comes to take Kerr on duty; but Norah begs him not to go because she is afraid.
Tennant tells Kerr that Norah was in love with a memory but now she realizes she loves her husband.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1934/Key.html   (430 words)

  
 Alice Restaurant: Anything you want, exceptin' Alice (January 22, 2003)
Andy Kerr says buying practices have improved with high quality ingredients used in all their dishes.
Currently, the "sugar shack" serves as an office, but the Kerrs are thinking about turning it into a coffee bar, or selling shaved ice or gelato from it in the summer.
As for the Kerrs, they're rather tickled to be running the places they used to take for granted when they were kids.
www.almanacnews.com /morgue/2003/2003_01_22.alice.html   (918 words)

  
 Letters to the Editor - CAIR - Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform
Kerr is probably the best-known environmental activist in the state, and the most controversial.
Later this month, for instance, Kerr will be a featured speaker in Coos Bay, Ore., along with Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and former U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield, at a conference Hatfield is sponsoring on Oregon's future and the tension between economic growth and quality of life.
Kerr is convinced a majority of Oregonians want growth to stop: It's simply a matter of convincing them it's possible, then mobilizing them.
www.cairco.org /letters/lte2000.html   (2152 words)

  
 Scottish health minister launches major new clinical trials project to boost business and health
Andy Kerr MSP, Minister For Health and Community Care is set to launch Glasgow Biomedicine, a groundbreaking initiative set to boost health and business in Scotland on 19 April 2005.
The joint NHS Greater Glasgow and University of Glasgow project 'Glasgow Biomedicine' is part of Medicine in Glasgow, a unique collaboration aiming to develop and promote Glasgow as an international centre of medical excellence.
Health Minister, Andy Kerr said: "I'm delighted to attend the launch of Glasgow Biomedicine to promote the excellent standard of clinical trial work in Scotland.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-04/uog-shm041505.php   (551 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Private firms to tackle NHS waits
Mr Kerr was speaking as new figures showed thousands of patients are continuing to wait more than 6 months for outpatients appointments across Scotland.
Mr Kerr held talks with private health care providers earlier in the week and is expected to announce the details of his plans to parliament next month.
But Mr Kerr countered that he could not ignore the problems faced by the NHS and promised Ms Robison's fears would not be realised.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/4040981.stm   (696 words)

  
 Welcome to Jackson County Online - News and Events
Join Andy Kerr, author and conservation advocate for an evening of discussion and a slide show featuring his new book "Oregon Wild" Endangered Forest Wilderness" at the Central Library in Medford, Saturday, January 22 at 3:00 pm.
His book tells of the 5 million acres of unprotected roadless forest remaining in Oregon, which shelter the ancient trees and protect our purest drinking water and the book shows through 40 maps based on new research and 199 color photographs, what these lands contain.
Andy Kerr will also be giving a program in the Medford Library on January 22.
www.co.jackson.or.us /News.asp?NewsID=539   (137 words)

  
 Keep smiling and you might be a success, Andy - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Mr Kerr has been sailing close to the wind and is probably lucky to have escaped the same fate.
Like his predecessors, Mr Kerr is throwing more millions at the problem - unlike them he's going to make use of the private sector to cure NHS ills on a scale which would have had him drummed out of the Labour Party not so long ago.
What Mr Kerr does share with the others who held the job is this Executive's love of setting targets and, so long as the figures are not being fiddled - and there's always a suspicion the Executive is at it - they provide a guide to whether a policy is working.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/features/7016199.html   (718 words)

  
 Environmentalists Free Speech Rights Violated AP 5sep01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Because Lt. Jack Redfield was in uniform and backed by other police officers when he mentioned Andy Kerr and Wendell Wood by name, it appeared he had the backing of the city when he made the July 25 speech, attorney Gary K. Kahn wrote in a letter to the city.
Kerr is a consultant working with ONRC to develop support for a federal buyout of basin farmers to reduce water demand.
Redfield and a retinue of Klamath Falls police officers were delivering a beef raised on Redfield's ranch to a barbecue celebrating a limited release of water to farmers on the Klamath Project irrigation system when he put on a white cowboy hat and read his speech.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/Free-Speech-Rights.htm   (460 words)

  
 Ashland Daily Tidings :: Online Newspaper Edition - Your Community News Source Since 1876.
Kerr has worked for the Oregon Natural Resources Council from when he dropped out of Oregon State University in 1976, until 1996.
Time magazine labeled Kerr a "White Collar Terrorist," referring to his effectiveness in working within the system and striking fear in the hearts of those who exploit Oregon's natural environment.
He is the founder and director of the Larch Company (a for-profit conservation organization whose membership are species who cannot speak and generations of humans yet born, where all profits are donated to environmental protection, and as a freelance agitator for the wild through writing, consulting, lobbying and public speaking.
www.dailytidings.com /2004/1230/123004r3.shtml   (683 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Politics - No answers to the Budget questions
Andy mangling budget details yesterday was its proof.
He returned to give Andy Kerr an energetic "we’re in this together" shoulder-whacking, Cathy Jamieson a pat, and sat down smiling.
Andy might be a punchbag, but he has developed a successful technique for swinging tantalisingly in the breeze, evading the blows.
news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=1143732004   (740 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | 'No change' in health policy
Andy Kerr is one of the first minister's trusted allies
Mr Kerr said that he and new deputy Rhona Brankin would "work very hard to make this service what the people of Scotland expect it to be".
Mr Kerr acknowledged that he and Ms Brankin were facing a "very big political challenge".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/3714198.stm   (530 words)

  
 Scottish Conservatives - TIME FOR A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION FROM GRINCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Scottish Conservative Finance and Local Government Spokesman Brian Monteith MSP today urged Finance Minister Andy Kerr to reconsider using the Barnett consequential of £47million from Chancellor Gordon Brown's council tax relief in his pre budget report last month to relieve the council tax burden in Scotland.
"Andy Kerr has shown extraordinary complacency on this issue, telling me in Parliament last month that council tax wasn't really a problem in Scotland.
"All Andy Kerr is proposing in relation to council tax is to reband and revalue.
www.scottishtories.org.uk /pressrelease.asp?ID=2643   (352 words)

  
 Vintage A Team Race at the 2001 Australian Nationals
Record holder for this event, Andy Kerr, had his share of problems at this meeting including a wing broken during practice.
Andy Kerr and Richard Justic weren't without their problems at this meet.
However, it wasn't to be and Andy and Richard were standing among the spectators when the controversial CD began the countdown for the 180 lap final.
dkd.net /clcomps/natsvatr.html   (1093 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Business - Kerr dashes property tax hopes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Finance minister Andy Kerr said the rise was less than the RPI rate of inflation.
MONTHS of lobbying by the Scottish business community for a freeze or cut in taxes on commercial property were dashed yesterday as the Scottish Executive announced a 2.1 per cent increase in the rate "poundage" from 2004.
Finance minister Andy Kerr stressed that the rise was less than the RPI rate of inflation, which is expected to average about 2.5 per cent in the year ahead.
business.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1385552003   (683 words)

  
 Women's Tennis, news and results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Kerr was 4-8 in both singles and doubles matches as the men posted a 2-10 mark.
To be eligible for the academic team, student-athletes must have a minimum 3.2 GPA and be in their second year of competition at the institution.
Andy Kerr, NNU (Yakima, Wash./West Valley HS), def.
www.nnu.edu /athletics/womens/tennis/press.html   (1472 words)

  
 Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In no uncertain terms, veteran conservationist Andy Kerr lets you know the answers to these and other questions in his new book, Oregon Wild: Endangered Forest Wilderness.
At the same time, it provides a natural history of the state's forests, an "unnatural" history of the state's deforestation, and a review of the politics that have allowed protection of some areas and decimation of others.
Kerr also profiles each of the proposed wilderness areas remaining -- these pockets of wilderness include the most productive salmon watershed remaining in the continental U.S., stunning canyons, volcanic formations, wetlands, wildflowers, waterfalls, wildlife, and trees, trees, trees.
www.oregonwild.org /oregonwildbook/reviews.htm   (297 words)

  
 Courier News Story
Andy Kerr moves from finance to the health hot seat, ousting Malcolm Chisholm who takes over the communities portfolio.
“I think the most important thing that Andy Kerr will bring to that job is not just the drive, but the best use of resources in the record levels of investment that are taking place.
The test for Mr Kerr will be whether he, as health minister, can turn that huge investment into better services for patients and, crucially, convince a sceptical public.
www.thecourier.co.uk /output/2004/10/05/newsstory6399838t0.asp   (714 words)

  
 The Peanut Butter Hall of Fame
He's a graphic artist (which means he does his doodling in Photoshop) and maintains the PB pages as well as the Wheeitology majordomo.
Mom churned the butter and mooshed it all together with her feet, and father would eat it all.
© 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Andy Kerr and Nathan Eady.
www.members.kconline.com /kerr/pbfame.htm   (224 words)

  
 Tom McCabe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following Jack McConnell's appointment as First Minister he was out of office until after the Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003 when he returned as Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care.
In October 2004 he was promoted to Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform in place of Andy Kerr.
This page was last modified 16:19, 4 November 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_McCabe   (158 words)

  
 Environmentalists Propose Voluntary Buyout To 25,000 Public Lands Ranchers
Contact: Andy Kerr, National Public Lands Grazing Campaign director 541-701-6298 or andykerr@andykerr.net Keith Raether, NPLGC public information coordinator 208-788-2290 or kraether@westernwatersheds.org
To protect endangered species and protect water quality on public lands, the federal government encourages citizens to sue violators, even the government itself,² said Andy Kerr, director of the NPLGC and a leader of the successful spotted-owl campaign.
Kerr anticipates a more positive reaction to the NPLGC proposal from public lands cattle industry members than from industry leaders.
www.forwolves.org /ralph/25-thousand-ranchers.htm   (1059 words)

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