September 19, 2007
September 18, 2007
Drip … drip … drip … drip …
That’s the sound of the Hastings District Council spending ratepayer dollars.
Each individual spend never sounds like much, but boy do they add up!
Take, for example, HDC’s provisional decision, to be confirmed at Thursday’s Council meeting, to increase HDC’s “contribution” to the Kelt Capital Spring Carnival from $25,000 to [...]
September 16, 2007
Our next billboard analysis comes courtesy of Clinton Green – candidate for the Taradale ward of Napier City Council.
* From a campaigning point of view, we would have preferred to see the effete “Clinton” shortened to a punchier, more virile “Clint”. “Clinton” sounds like a guy whose first move if elected would be [...]
September 15, 2007
Just in …
Now that the Lowe family toy jet needs an airstrip, Andy Lowe has reluctantly decided to back a runway extension at Napier International Airport. “We can land the sucker on the runway now, as is,” says Lowe, “but without an extension we’ll be running through a heap of brake pads.”
Sources say that his [...]
September 14, 2007
BayBuzz offered its megaphone to Napier mayoral candidates Barbara Arnott and Clifford Church.
As with the Hastings candidates, all of whom seized the opportunity to communicate with voters, we provided a set of detailed questions, to be followed up with one-on-one interviews.
Mayor Arnott completed her response and gave us the interview. A broad range of issues [...]
September 13, 2007
BayBuzz has interviewed the three Hastings District mayoral candidates.
Here’s what Mayor Lawrence Yule and challengers Simon Nixon and Peter Nee Harland say about …
Ocean Beach … the airport extension … rates … development … Council spending … public consultation … parking … economic growth … the Opera House … their agendas for the future … [...]
September 11, 2007
- Alan Dick on Sack the Hearings Committee
- Dean Hyde (Whanganui) on Sack the Hearings Committee
- Bruce Bisset on Sack the Hearings Committee
- Pat Magil on More on Magic 150 Words
- Honoria Ropiha on The Magic 150 Words
- Jacoby Poulain on More on Magic 150 Words
- Anne Wilson-Hunt on More on Magic 150 Words
- Dave Pipe on More on Magic 150 Words
- Pat Magil on More on Magic 150 Words
- John Roil on More on Magic 150 Words
