December 16, 2008
Here in Hawke’s Bay, rather than helping poor people live in healthy homes, our Councils are far more eager to spend money on roads, sports parks, horse racing, bike paths and marine mammal amusement parks for tourists. At least that’s the impression given by all the histrionics from our Councillors over the imperative to meet [...]
December 16, 2008
“It’s too expensive.” “It’s too fast.” “There’s nothing in it for business.” Bah humbug, Murray! Here’s the reality … 1. Not unhealthy enough? To get a full sense of the full health impact of poorly heated homes with dirty air, read Elizabeth Sisson’s article elsewhere in this Digest. Forget the fact that poor people are [...]
December 16, 2008
While Hawke’s Bay has to think and work through the implications of the global credit meltdown, a more potentially insidious issue has crept through the backdoor. It came about through a well researched, quiet paper considered by the Hawke Bay Regional Council last week. Back in 2004, the Ministry for the Environment promoted legislation which [...]
December 16, 2008
TV1’s ‘Close Up’ programme on 26 November featured a visiting emergency health expert, Dr David Mountain from Western Australia. He is both a senior lecturer, and a hands-on emergency specialist. His well-researched message was sobering. We have a national problem with too few public hospital beds. The lack of ward beds is costing the country [...]
December 16, 2008
So there’s this house in Flaxmere. It’s an older home in a street of older homes. A single mother – call her Ms. Jones – and her three young kids live in the house. Next door is home to a large, friendly, extended family of Pacific Islanders. And across the street an elderly woman lives [...]
December 16, 2008
Before colonisation Maori had a justice system in which the community were directly involved in deciding punishment. The death penalty or banishment could be imposed, but the most common punishment was confiscation of the perpetrator’s possessions for the benefit of the victim. Europeans come from a tradition where criminals were paraded in the town centre. [...]
December 16, 2008
Our Councils are drafting their proposed ten-year council community plans (LTCCPs) that will be issued next March or so for official public consultation. The draft documents will represent consensus thinking as to what Councillors and staff believe to be reasonable programs and spending levels for the next decade, with the most critical attention paid to [...]
- 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
