Man About Town
January 29, 2010
Homage to The Earthquake
By Andrew Frame
I have a love-hate relationship with earthquakes.
The physics behind them is fascinating. Last year’s Fiordland quake shifted the bottom of the South Island 30cm closer to Australia – not bad landscaping for millions of tons of rock, eh?
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake, such as the one that struck Hawke’s Bay in [...]
Las Vegas of the South Pacific
January 28, 2010
Forget Napier … The Art Deco City.
According to Councillor Harry Lawson, Napier might better be called the “Las Vegas of the South Pacific!”
This was his observation as Napier Councillors marched up to the brink of taking action to reduce the number of pokies in the prim city, but then balked and retreated to study the [...]
Adults Only, Please
January 28, 2010
This afternoon (Wednesday night in the US), President Obama delivers his State of the Union address.
After barely a year in office, Obama is on political life-support, and political, business and labour elites seem determined to lock the nation into policy gridlock.
With Republicans now holding 41 votes in the Senate, and therefore able under Senate [...]
2010 NZ environmental issues
January 25, 2010
From Gary Taylor, Chairman of the Environmental Defence Society, here’s an excellent overview of the environmental issues on the table for resolution at the national level in 2010.
Perhaps of greatest direct significance to us in Hawke’s Bay are pending decisions on national freshwater management and coastal development.
Writing today in the NZ Herald, Gary says:
“On a [...]
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