August 30, 2010
Nominations are closed and serious campaigning is underway. For most candidates in Hawke’s Bay (including me), “serious campaigning” means two things – put up some signs and write a 150-word profile for the voting guide. Some will leaflet. Candidate meetings are too sparsely attended to have much impact. So, unfortunately, the most many of us [...]
August 29, 2010
BayBuzz brings a particular orientation to covering the candidates in this year’s local body elections. We focus on the non-incumbents … the challengers. Only for the simple reason that the incumbents – some of whom have served 9, 12, or 15 years – have all the advantages going into the campaign. They’ve had heaps of [...]
August 28, 2010
A Sober Mission By Andrew Frame Tom’s last column touched a chord I have been mulling over recently. It was especially highlighted with changes to next year’s Mission Concert that could raise some interesting results. Hawke’s Bay is synonymous with wine, the region’s marketers will tell you … so much so they even monikered us [...]
August 26, 2010
I was getting ready to write about my disappointment with the Government’s just-announced liquor law “reforms” when I read this commentary by Garth George in the Herald. I couldn’t think of a word I’d change, and so I thought, why bother? His title says it all … Phoney booze war lack firepower! I urge you [...]
August 24, 2010
Brown, Grey, Green — these are the colours of Hawke’s Bay’s future (leaving aside Magpies’ black & white for the moment). Brown — our increasing proportion of Maori, with the Maori population growing 25% by 2045. At that point, Maori will comprise about 27% of the Bay’s overall population. There are three particular implications of [...]
August 22, 2010
Here are some other articles from the latest BayBuzz Digest raising issues you might want to think about as you ponder your candidate choices in our upcoming local elections. It doesn’t sound like any of these folks are saying “stay the course”! Anna Lorck says THE only issue is amalgamation. Could it be that she’s [...]
August 22, 2010
Ideally, election issues reflect the concerns of the community. The community then votes in the people best qualified for sorting them out. Identifying the issues is therefore vital. It is also very difficult. Issues can be manufactured distorted and manipulated by interest groups, the press, the civil service and by politicians themselves. The machinery of [...]
- 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
