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They had [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5962/</link> </item> <item><title>Farmers mull over water storage</title> <description><![CDATA[“I’m not getting myself in a lather over this dam because nothing will happen unless it’s bankable.”]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5890/</link> </item> <item><title>MÃORI ECONOMY: Brimming with potential</title> <description><![CDATA[‘Heretaunga te Haaro o te Kaahu ki Tuawhakarere’ A hundred pathways, life giving waters and beauty that can only be seen through the eye of a hawk. Hawke’s Bay Mãori whakatauki (or proverb) Keith Newman asks whether the vision from the eye of the hawk is strong enough to pull Mãori and mainstream economies together [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5912/</link> </item> <item><title>Stonewalled in Westshore</title> <description><![CDATA[Keith Newman finds coastal campaigner Larry Dallimore as persistent as the current that perpetually sweeps gravel northward around Hawke’s Bay. With millions of public dollars and a valuable coastline at stake, why aren’t councils responding to him? Larry Dallimore is a stone in the shoes of Hawke’s Bay bureaucrats, engineers and councillors. They wish he’d [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5909/</link> </item> <item><title>WATER. What&#8217;s all the fuss about?</title> <description><![CDATA[Why does BayBuzz devote half of this magazine to freshwater issues? Because the environmental, recreational, cultural and economic values of Hawke’s Bay are totally intertwined in our rivers, and we are about to make hugely important decisions about them. Starting with the Tukituki, but extending to the rest of our rivers as well. Decisions whose [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5898/</link> </item> <item><title>Inside Havelock North</title> <description><![CDATA[As a consumer, which Havelock North Village is yours? A place to run errands – pick up mail and groceries, have a coffee and occasional meal, book some travel or see a movie. Or see your banker, accountant, web developer, or hairdresser. Or a place to buy au courant fashions, shoes, jewelry, gifts … or [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5916/</link> </item> <item><title>Questions for HB &#8216;regional study&#8217; director</title> <description><![CDATA[Our councils have recruited Peter Winder, former chief executive of the Auckland Regional Council and chief executive of Local Government New Zealand, to conduct our region&#8217;s &#8216;performance&#8217; study. Without question, Winder is an experienced local government practitioner. He also, as a consultant to the HB Regional Council, completed a recent examination of &#8216;shared service&#8217; opportunities [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5941/</link> </item> <item><title>The best years of our lives</title> <description><![CDATA[In this regular column, Kay Bazzard considers life’s changes for the Baby Boomer corps, as its first members hit age 65, bringing the issues home to Hawke’s Bay. Between 1946 and 1965, 1.125 million babies were born in New Zealand – 77% more than in the 20 years before the baby boom began. As they [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5936/</link> </item> <item><title>Who owns the soil?</title> <description><![CDATA[The diameter of the Earth is 12,700 kms. Most of the atmosphere is within 16 kms of the surface, but we can only survive in a tiny, precarious skin of about 2-3 kms wedged between a ball of mostly molten rock and the unbounded emptiness of space. If that is not scary enough when seen [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5928/</link> </item> <item><title>50 water storage questions</title> <description><![CDATA[General Status of Tukituki Catchment 1. What is HBRC’s position on the current – or benchmark – environmental health of the Tukituki? Do environmentalists or other government assessments agree with that assessment? 2. What standards, indicators or measures will HBRC use to establish the environmental health of the Tukituki? Do these include measures of macroinvertebrate [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5900/</link> </item> <item><title>DAM(N)! A half-billion dollar water storage scheme</title> <description><![CDATA[The Regional Council proposes a half-billion dollar dam project. But who pays for it, who owns it, and is it worth it?]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5886/</link> </item> <item><title>Riding the trail</title> <description><![CDATA[He stared at the dimly lit corner of the shed. The broken outdoor umbrella lay slumped against the rusted handle of The Golden Dragon, his old rotary lawnmower whose once-fearsome roar had long since died in its corroded metal throat. Behind the dead mower was an equally dead car battery. And propped against the shed [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5938/</link> </item> <item><title>The great debate: National standards</title> <description><![CDATA[Tom Belford is an agitator. Last issue he asked me to navigate the pit full of alligators that constitutes the current local government debate in Hawke’s Bay. This issue it’s National Standards for primary school pupils, where some of the alligators involved may be pint-sized, but they’re just as snappy. Too bad that I know [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5934/</link> </item> <item><title>The hottest destination in the region</title> <description><![CDATA[Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Gallery has been closed to the public for what seems a very long time. However, even the casual observer can now understand why, as activity onsite increases daily and the true scale of the project becomes more evident. Less obvious is the work that continues offsite, where museum staff and [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5932/</link> </item> <item><title>Anti-frackers: Alarmist or alarmed</title> <description><![CDATA[Alarmist – n: a person given to spreading needless alarm; &#8211; adj: spreading needless alarm. Alarmed – n: frightened expectation of danger or difficulty: -v.tr – aroused to a sense of danger. (Concise Oxford Dictionary) While there may well be a hard core of alarmists muscling in on the fracking debate, we haven’t met one [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5931/</link> </item> <item><title>Harvesting the peaks to fill the troughs</title> <description><![CDATA[The possibility of a large water storage project on the Makaroro River offers huge opportunities for Hawke’s Bay. This would be a 77 metre high storage dam, capable of holding 90 million cubic metres of water, creating a lake two and a half times the size of Lake Tutira, and potentially capable of producing up [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5925/</link> </item> <item><title>Let&#8217;s get Council meetings online</title> <description><![CDATA[I need your help! In my Annual Plan submissions last year to the Hastings, Napier and Regional Councils, I proposed that these Councils fund live web streaming and online archiving of their full Council and major committee meetings. This year, both the Hastings and Regional Councils are seeking public comments on this proposal in their [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5923/</link> </item> <item><title>They&#8217;re back</title> <description><![CDATA[A familiar story told in Hawke’s Bay is of the prodigal son or daughter. BayBuzz is heartened to see many Hawke’s Bay ex-pats returning to the fold with rich experiences and enhanced skills. We ask the ‘returnees’ where did they go, what did they do and what prompted their return. Don’t come home too soon [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5918/</link> </item> <item><title>Removing deficit thinking</title> <description><![CDATA[Mãori students are failing in our education system. Or reframed, the system is failing Mãori students. Which is it? A new approach in Hawke’s Bay suggests an answer. Two decades ago a black teenager in London was murdered by a group of white kids. The police investigation was so poorly handled that a Royal Commission [...]]]></description><link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5905/</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
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