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November 7, 2007

Last week we reported on the Special Task Force assigned to identify issues sufficiently important to warrant convening a meeting of the Napier City Council (as opposed to just letting the Mayor do it). Sources inside the group have leaked to BayBuzz this draft “top 10″ list of potential agenda items recently given to Mayor [...]

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November 6, 2007

I’m just beginning to wade through the heaps of reports and technical studies presented by Hastings Council in support of a Regional Sports Park. As a citizen, it feels like I’m being rushed on this. It’s a very complex, ambitious and expensive proposed project. And yet I have not quite one month (public notice was [...]

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November 5, 2007

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November 2, 2007

Department of Conservation’s (DOC) Peter Williamson today fired a broadside at organisers of Westpac Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, saying the decision to nominate Napier business

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November 1, 2007

Citing a lack of pressing issues to discuss, Mayor Barbara Arnott today announced that the Napier City Council will not meet officially until 2008 … “sometime after the grapes are picked” were her exact words to this reporter. “However,” she added, “we will have an official swearing-in of freshly elected councillors, possibly as early as [...]

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