March 21, 2010
Last week BayBuzz broke the news that the Hastings Council (or was it the Hastings Sports Park Trust?) gave an un-tendered roading project to Higgins Contractors in exchange for a $500,000 donation to the sports park. Let’s be crystal clear about this. Here’s what the staff briefing paper for the Hastings Council said: “Higgins Limited [...]
March 20, 2010
Signs Of a Problem By Andrew Frame Just when Hastings thought it had all the mindless Council fun with sports park funding, wastelands where sports parks used to be, and problems with pools of stuff that is hard to push up hill, the Napier City Council comes barging along and abducts some retailers’ advertising sandwich [...]
March 18, 2010
Latest developments on the Hastings wastewater treatment plant. No … it’s not fixed. [Read Kathy Webb's Stinkin' Pipes article for Baybuzz Digest if you need the history on this.] Instead, the Hastings Council has filed a motion with the District Court to block enforcement of the Regional Council’s odour abatement notice, which requires HDC to [...]
March 16, 2010
Here’s an actual situation I welcome your opinion on. It’s an issue of principle versus what some might call pragmatism. Lawrence Yule, Chair of the Regional Sports Park Trust (yes, that’s Mayor Yule to most of us) sat down in his Trust capacity with Higgins Contractors, the folks who build so many roads around here. [...]
March 15, 2010
Yesterday we published Part 1 of Stinkin’ Pipes, Kathy Webb’s investigation into the viability of Hastings’ new sewage treatment plant in East Clive … a design to be copied by Napier. Here’s Part 2, the continuation of her examination. Or you can download the entire article here. Stinkin’ Pipes! (Part 2) By Kathy Webb $27m [...]
March 14, 2010
With this post (also the lead article in the March BayBuzz Digest), we welcome a new reporter, Kathy Webb, a journalist with a great reputation in Hawke’s Bay, most recently writing for the Dominion Post. Kathy will investigate a variety of regional issues in-depth for BayBuzz in the coming months. In her lead-off story, Stinkin’ [...]
March 13, 2010
I Love McLean Park By Andrew Frame For someone so sportingly inept, I have many fond memories of the place. Massive Mexican waves that stretched around the ground a dozen times at day-night cricket games back in the nineties — this was before plastic beer bottles at sporting events too, so it was a real [...]
- 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
