May 29, 2011
That was a headline in the DomPost last week, referring of course to central government. Don’t expect to see a headline like that in Hawke’s Bay Today anytime soon! Although it’s budgeting crunch time for our local Councils, one thing you can be absolutely, positively sure of … personnel cuts are not on the table. [...]
May 25, 2011
Hat in hand, like us mere citizen submitters to various Council Annual Plans, Mayor Lawrence Yule has approached his fellow Councils to pitch them for some money. Having missed their submission deadlines, he needed their special dispensation. Specifically, he wants the Regional and Napier Councils to co-sponsor with Hastings a study of the pros and [...]
May 24, 2011
Roy Dunningham has covered several Creative Hawke’s Bay Invitationals for BayBuzz. Here he reviews the current 2011 Invitational, exhibiting at the Hastings City Art Gallery through June 26th. Creative Hawke’s Bay Invitational 2011 By Roy Dunningham This year’s Creative Hawke’s Bay Invitational at the Hastings City Art Gallery should be the best yet, but it [...]
May 23, 2011
BayBuzz originally broke this story on 21 April 2008, when we reported on a secret trip Mayor Barbara Arnott had made to Amsterdam and Venice. Here’s what we wrote to our three readers, exclusive of immediate family, at that time (now we have about 3,000 online unique readers per month): “Prodded by Mayor Arnott, who [...]
May 22, 2011
Which one of the following Ministers is most important to the future of New Zealand? Minister of Tourism Minister for Children Minister of Racing Minister for Senior Citizens Minister for Rugby World Cup Which of those do we not have? When I think of the future — at least in terms of potential — I [...]
May 18, 2011
While attending a wedding in London, John Key was interviewed for the BBC’s Hardtalk program by reporter Stephen Sackur. I encourage you to watch the interview, which comes in Part 1 and Part 2. About eleven minutes into the first segment, then continuing into the second segment, Sackur challenges Key on the “clean, green” image [...]
May 16, 2011
Last week, the Government announced a “Fresh Start on Freshwater Policy”. Basically, they want to accelerate irrigation, including here in Hawke’s Bay (as we explained in our last post), while offering up a soft noodle of a National Policy Statement on fresh water management as a sop to the broad public that might be concerned [...]
- Pat Magill on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- John J Harrison on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- John J Harrison on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- Pat Magill on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- Andrew Frame on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- David Bosley on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- John J Harrison on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- Pat Magill on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- John J Harrison on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- Michelle Pyke on Inside Hawke’s Bay Politics, circa May
- Yule and Arnott take risk concerns to Regional Council
- Regional Council nears meltdown
- Open appeal to Hawke’s Bay media
- Who will get the money?
- Demand escalates for ‘Time Out’ on $600 million dam
- Dam promises Maori jobs!
- Dazed and confused in Napier
- HB Regional Council = Arrogance
- Call for “time out” on dam project
- Toxic algae and the dam
