September 20, 2010
BayBuzz columnist Brendan Webb offers this engaging history of Hastings’ mayors, but first his amiable “homage” to Hastings’ current leader, Lawrence Yule. Be sure to click the image to view full-size … you’ll want to check out Lawrence’s bookshelf! Here is Brendan’s entertaining history of Hastings mayors … No Sign of Mayors By Brendan Webb [...]
September 17, 2010
BayBuzz has prepared several analyses of the Council and DHB elections issues and candidates. Hastings Council Hastings Council: Back to Basics By Tom Belford Economy Tops ‘To Do’ List By Lawrence Gullery Personal View By Lawrence Gullery Regional Council HB Regional Council: Environment First! By Tom Belford Napier City Council Napier Council: Barbara’s Way Or [...]
September 16, 2010
In our Special Election Edition of BayBuzz Digest, now in distribution, BayBuzz puts forward a First Fifteen Change Team for your consideration. Here they are: Hastings Council Wayne Bradshaw (Havelock ward): No HDC candidate standing more deserves to be elected; no current Councillor is more persistent in pressing for financial prudence and transparency, or in [...]
September 15, 2010
On Wednesday both the DomPost and HB Today published the incredible story of how much pollution AFFCO meatworks has poured into the Wairoa River … for years. As the DomPost reported, at times water tests have revealed faecal coliform counts of 3600cfu/100ml, when the District Health Board says anything over 550cfu/100ml triggers danger alerts. Indeed, [...]
September 14, 2010
Tuesday night I fronted up with several other Regional Council candidates at a meeting sponsored by HB Wine Country Tourism. The tourism sector has been rather upset with the performance of Venture Hawke’s Bay, and by extension, its supervisory parent, the HB Regional Council. Barring death in the family, totally inexcusable was incumbent Councillor Neil [...]
September 12, 2010
In his latest e-newsletter, Regional Councillor Ewan McGregor bemoans what he considers to be the degrading state of political debate in Hawke’s Bay. This is a recurring theme for Councillor McGregor. I only wish he spent as much time worrying about the degrading state of the Tukituki! Of course, the villain in McGregor’s plot is [...]
September 7, 2010
BayBuzz has accumulated links to heaps of local body candidate information, plus we’ve prepared plenty of original material, focusing on the Hastings, Napier and Regional Council races, as well as Hawke’s Bay DHB. Here is the “mother page” with links listed by candidate — their websites, Facebook pages, podcasts, whatever. Many candidates have filed information [...]
- 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
