October 16, 2009
Although Mother Nature failed to achieve any tactical victory over Hawke’s Bay the other week with a tsunami, she had far better results with an air bombardment. As a result, your “Man About Town” temporarily reverted to “Man in front of fire eating chips and watching The West Wing on DVD.” So when Saturday sloshed [...]
October 16, 2009
On October 12, complying with advice from the Ombudsman, who supported Information Act requests by BayBuzz and the DomPost, the HB Regional Council released its list of potentially contaminated sites around the Bay. In recent months, HBRC scrubbed its original HAIL list of 3,102 sites, appropriately eliminating a host of sites for reasons ranging from [...]
October 14, 2009
More from October BayBuzz Digest … Back in May, a Lindisfarne alumnus, the Honourable Justice Joseph Williams of the High Court, formerly Chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal, spoke at an “Embracing Futures” breakfast sponsored by the HB Regional Council. He addressed the growing role of Maori in New Zealand’s economy and public affairs, fueled both [...]
October 13, 2009
Over coffee yesterday, a wise acquaintance — someone with considerable experience in both the apple and wine industries in Hawke’s Bay and beyond — made the comment: “The apple business is broke and the wine business is bankrupt.” His chief argument was simply that neither product can possibly be price competitive in world markets in [...]
October 12, 2009
In Napier, 26 cents of each ratepayer dollar goes to roading and associated projects. The central government funding cuts described in yesterday’s BayBuzz post will affect routine maintenance and renewal, resealing, extension of cycleways, as well as major new roadworks. The Napier Council staff has presented a paper examining these implications. On Thursday, the Hastings [...]
October 12, 2009
The announcement of new road-building priorities by the National Government, which favor moving people in Auckland over freight in Hawke’s Bay, seems to have taken local officials by surprise. Mayor Arnott in recent remarks stops just a step shy of “betrayal” in characterising NZ Transport Agency’s “hold” on the four-laning of Prebensen Drive (an $8 [...]
October 11, 2009
There has never been a shortage of Maori voices. Some Maori protest; occupying and blockading, demonstrating anger, grief, lack of redress; emitting skewed images for the media. Other Maori debate; working from within, fighting twice as hard, twice as long, twice as much; at twice the cost. Some Maori yell from their cells; howling over [...]
- 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
