October 19, 2008
Our latest BayBuzz Digest – our Special Election Edition – will be published this week. Watch for it in your letterbox, or find a copy at cafes, shops and libraries throughout the area. All of our special Digest coverage of the candidates and parties, as described below, is available now on the BayBuzz website as [...]
October 16, 2008
I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to read in HB Today that Napier’s Deputy Mayor Kathie Furlong questions whether a just-completed three-year program called Active Hawke’s Bay delivered results anywhere near worthy of its $600,000 cost. The project was intended to get targeted unfit populations exercising and eating properly. As Kathie put it, [...]
October 15, 2008
Many Hawke’s Bay voters are about to get this card in their letterbox … Curiously, there’s a word missing … ENVIRONMENT! Tom
October 15, 2008
Regional Sports Park As expected, the Horticultural Land Protection Society, chaired by Alan Baldock, has filed an appeal challenging the recent independent commissioners ruling that would permit the regional sports park to proceed. The Society represents several dozen orchardists and other land-focused professionals concerned about non-horticultural development of fertile and finite Plains lands. Others are [...]
October 14, 2008
Determined to show that he’s a bold leader, willing to think outside the box, John Key has taken the advice of Backing the Bay MPs Craig Foss and Chris Tremain. “I was telling them how frustrated I am with the ever-proliferating health ministry bureaucracy in Wellington, and said I’d be willing to try anything to [...]
October 12, 2008
For most voters, there’s some kind of “deal breaker” – a position or action taken by a candidate or party that would absolutely lose that person’s vote. Here are some deal breakers that I’ve heard lately. Do any of these resonate with you? 1. Refusing, as Helen Clark has so far refused, to flatly rule [...]
October 10, 2008
When it comes to evaluating candidates, there’s no substitute for watching them “perform” in the flesh. One can read position statements, media releases, look at adverts, written responses to Q&As, etc. — all of which is valuable and builds a public record against which to hold the winner accountable. But watching them respond to questions [...]
- 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
