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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
January 21, 2010
We’re talking REALLY fast food here, folks.
BayBuzz sneaks away for two weeks at Waimarama and look what happens to the Havelock Road entrance to HN!
This is the price we pay if we are not eternally vigilant.
Interviewed in the VIP lounge of the new eatery, Hastings Council manager of fast food licensing, Barbara Q. Burger, said: [...]
January 18, 2010
Yesterday, the Hawke’s Bay Today published an account of the important Heretaunga Plains Urban Development Strategy, mentioning the three options put forward for public consultation.
Unfortunately, the public submission period on these options — which, in a nutshell, deal with whether to plant buildings or crops on the Plains — closed last Friday. Thanks HBT.
Another example [...]
January 15, 2010
Topp Stuff
By Andrew Frame
Music runs in the blood of many famous New Zealand families. Bic & Boh Runga, Evermore’s Jon, Peter and Dan Hume and Tim & Neil Finn.
Jools and Lynda Topp are no exception.
From an early age they were entertainers, performing for family and the animals on their parents’ Huntly farm. Busking to the [...]
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