August 31, 2007
Murray Gilbertson, whom BayBuzz termed “the most important man you don’t know” in an earlier post, has announced his resignation, effective 31 December. Mr. Gilbertson has served since April 2000. “I am excited to see what happens, keep my options open and be ready for the next challenge when it comes my way,” Mr. Gilbertson [...]
August 30, 2007
Over the next few weeks BayBuzz will assess the creativity, efficacy and all-round billboard craft of as many local body campaigners as we can. As always, our judging will be candid and subjective.
Our first entry comes by way of Hastings District Council candidate (Hastings ward) – Bruce Bisset.
* Bisset has been blessed at birth with [...]
August 27, 2007
Breaking news:
Sir Bob Geldof has just this hour been announced as the official act for the 2007 Mission Estate Concert.
Geldof will host Live Aid II – the sequel to his 1985 Live Aid concert success that saw $100 million raised for famine relief.
“Live Aid II has been a work in progress for some time,” says [...]
August 24, 2007
If you are a person or family of wealth and property in Hawke’s Bay, there are two ways to leave a legacy for your countrymen as a way of celebrating your good fortune and love of the land.
The first is to place 98 hectares of your property — some of the most iconic landscape in [...]
August 21, 2007
August 20, 2007
If Friday’s rugby spectacle at McLean Park in Napier proved anything, it’s that streaking isn’t an art for dilettantes.
For the record, I’m in awe of the streaker. It’s a beautiful thing; that inspired moment where like a piece of shrapnel some boozed patron splits from the pack, exposes himself to thousands of accidental voyeurs and [...]
August 20, 2007
Yesterday in the Swiss Alps, 600 enviros posed nude in a Greenpeace demonstration on the Aletsch Glacier to dramatize our vulnerability to global warming.
Inspired by this stirring display, Napier Mayor Barbara Arnott pledged that, if re-elected, she would personally lead a campaign to make next year’s Great Long Lunch on Marine Parade a nude event. [...]
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