May 7, 2009
It’s no secret that I believe the sports park is an ill-conceived proposition on many grounds. In my submission on the Hastings draft LTCCP, I simply comment on the opportunity cost the project represents. A huge amount of Council mind share and resources are going into an initiative that, even if legal hurdles are overcome [...]
May 5, 2009
Our friends at Arataki Honey remind us that National Bee Week is May 4 – 8. BayBuzz would indeed be derelict if we didn’t help spread the buzz. Just how good is your bee knowledge? Take our quick “Bee in the Know” quiz. Answers at end … no cheating! 1. All worker bees are: [...]
May 4, 2009
I’m happy to hand the BayBuzz “microphone” to HB Regional Councillor Kevin Rose, who has some good news for the Bay. Here is a recent radio report filed by Kevin for his News Talk ZB broadcast. “Last week the Regional Council announced the securing of funding to enable the building of an interpretation site and [...]
May 3, 2009
Councillor Ewan McGregor doesn’t like the fact that BayBuzz keeps knocking the Regional Council for the lousy state of the Tukituki. Over the past eighteen months or so, sometimes he’s argued that the Tuki is not miserably polluted at all (or no more so than his boyhood days), and at other times he’s argued that [...]
May 3, 2009
Everybody is for high employment except, it seems, in the case of the public sector. Voters are primed to denounce “bloated bureaucracies” at the drop of a hat, making public employees a convenient target for politicians. Sometimes deservedly, sometimes not. Of course politicians, reflecting their constituencies, are shrewd in their targeting of public employees … [...]
May 3, 2009
What’s more important to any business than satisfied customers? And despite getting knocked around a bit by politicians, Hawke’s Bay Inc has its growing share, as these comments indicate. Hawke’s Bay Opera House: “HB Inc has been the major instigator in achieving a collaborative approach to conference marketing in our region … Recently we worked [...]
May 3, 2009
Much is made of the fact that the Hawkes Bay economy is powered primarily by its land based production sectors and the allied processing of the outputs of these sectors. These sectors include pastoral farming, fruit, horticulture, wine, forestry/logging, food processing, textile manufacturing and wood processing. Latest available Statistics New Zealand information indicates that last [...]
- 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
