October 8, 2007
Dismayed at the low voter participation so far in local body elections, Mayor Barbara Arnott has decided to spark greater voter interest in Napier by running against herself in the balloting days remaining. Today she launched a multi-faceted advertising campaign, reportedly spending in the six-figure range, taking shots at her own credentials as mayor. Sources [...]
October 5, 2007
Personally, I can’t think of a cage that needs to be rattled more than the HB District Health Board. So I’m stunned by the joint advertising campaign, now appearing in HBT and community papers, that incumbents are coordinating in a concerted drive to get voters to re-elect them as a team. On the one hand, [...]
October 3, 2007
At the invitation of BayBuzz and the Hawke’s Bay Environmental Water Group, MPs Craig Foss and Chris Tremain devoted several hours today to a Tukituki field trip. Conservationists Bill Dodds, John Scott and David Renouf led the site visit and delivered a running commentary on the effluents flowing into the river from the treatment facilities [...]
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October 1, 2007
In a Hawke’s Bay Today article run last week “Council loo-sens purse for restrooms” it was revealed Hastings District Council plan to finance new inner-city toilets (west of the railway line) via proceeds from the sale of Nelson Park. Currently there is only one public toilet managed by HDC in the city’s CBD. Hastings mayor, [...]
October 1, 2007
- Andrew Reyngoud on DAM(N)! A half-billion dollar water storage scheme
- Margaret Donnelly on WATER. What's all the fuss about?
- Elizabeth Sisson on 'Dump Council' campaign
- Paul Bailey on Cows in Karamu Stream
- Rob Pharazyn on Cows in Karamu Stream
- John J Harrison on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Anne Parker on Let's get Council meetings online
- Stuart Nash on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Kylie Fowler on Let's get Council meetings online
- Paul Bailey on Let's get Council meetings online
- ‘Dump Council’ campaign
- Cows in Karamu Stream
- Questions for HB ‘regional study’ director
- Let’s get Council meetings online
- 5 mayors in HB … ‘Yeah right’ says Tui
- Crucial Environment Court hearing underway
- Regional Council warns on pollution standards
- Democracy in action?
- 1+1+1 = 3 hours
- Councils’ reorganization survey results
