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		<title>Will the Beehive reform local government?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Briefings for Incoming Ministers, prepared by the permanent public service for new ministers at the turn of Government, make for fascinating reading. They reflect the central government bureacracy&#8217;s views on the priorities and issues that ministers need to address. And they have just been released for public viewing. The first I&#8217;ve read is for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please help &#8230; I&#8217;m an addict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week TAG Oil and Apache Corporation gave their briefing to the Regional Council regarding oil exploration in our region (the area targeted is on Hawke&#8217;s Bay&#8217;s southern boundary). Alex Ferguson of Apache actually did all the talking, and it was evident that he&#8217;s made this kind of presentation probably hundreds of times. Deliver the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give this speech in Hawke&#8217;s Bay, Minister Smith &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, MP Nick Smith gave a sweeping speech to the Nelson Rotary in his home constituency. He focused mostly on issues in his two ministerial portfolio areas … the environment and local government. With respect to the environment, Smith focused on protection of NZ&#8217;s ocean area, freshwater management, and the Emissions Trading Scheme. Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give this speech in Hawke&#8217;s Bay, Minister Smith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, MP Nick Smith gave a sweeping speech to the Nelson Rotary in his home constituency. He focused mostly on issues in his two ministerial portfolio areas &#8230; the environment and local government. What he said about local government reform is an important message all local government officials in Hawke&#8217;s Bay &#8212; and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regional Council approves regional performance study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Regional Council, meeting in committee, yesterday unanimously approved terms of reference (TOR) for the regional performance study. The complete TOR are here. During the open discussion, two key points were firmly established. First, despite indirect language in the TOR, Councillors understand the TOR to mean that the study must look at current governance arrangements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drilling into fracking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In their first quasi-public appearance in Hawke&#8217;s Bay, TAG Oil and Apache Corporation will make a presentation on Wednesday the 25th at 1pm to the HB Regional Council. I say &#8220;quasi-public&#8221; because this is not truly a public forum. TAG and Apache have yet to front up in a public forum in Hawke&#8217;s Bay where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawke&#8217;s Bay study terms should advance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Wednesday the Regional Council will consider Terms of Reference for the study our five councils have agreed to conduct regarding the region&#8217;s economic, social and governance performance. Given that the Regional Council wrote the resolution upon which these Terms are grounded, approval should be forthcoming. These Terms were already approved by the Hastings Council [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I can see my toes!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BayBuzz has argued that the measurement test for clean water used by the HB Regional Council has been determined by Councillor Ewan Mc Gregor&#8217;s standard &#8212; &#8220;If I can see my toes, it&#8217;s OK.&#8221; Councillor McGregor says we have it all wrong. He&#8217;s organised a field day for anyone who wants to get the &#8216;truth&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paratene Matchitt at his finest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fine food and Paratene Matchitt too. Our art commentator Roy Dunningham raves about the Paratene Matchitt exhibition now at the Black Barn Gallery until 5 February. Paratene Matchitt At His Finest By Roy Dunningham Some artists burst upon the scene like supernovae and then spend the rest of their lives wondering what to do next, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toughen up swimmers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That seems to be the motto of the District Health Board and the Regional Council. With a headline last Wednesday that literally screamed &#8212; Children scream from rash after Lake Tutira swim &#8212; HB Today reported the plight of several families who took a swim in the lake in the days after Boxing Day. Several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the dam hold water?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, HB Today virtually endorsed the Regional Council’s proposed dam project for Central Hawke’s Bay, with passing reference that conservation and iwi concerns about water quality would need to be “acceptably managed”. Here’s the editorial, which asserts: “Early financial modelling suggests a $300 million a year boost to the region’s gross domestic product from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5639/</link>
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		<title>More from Jan/Feb BayBuzz mag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, we featured the &#8216;Visions&#8217; articles in the current BayBuzz mag. But there&#8217;s heaps of other good stuff too &#8230; In Beyond the Bandwith Blues, Keith Newman looks at the race to install ultrafast broadband in Hawke&#8217;s Bay. If you want to know what all the fuss is about and should we care &#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5636/</link>
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		<title>Science says: Fight social ills with hugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local headlines remind us almost daily that Hawke&#8217;s Bay has a serious &#8212; and apparently escalating &#8212; youth violence problem. Children following in the footsteps of their parents. Can we fight it with hugs? Yes! says a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics, that nation&#8217;s premier association of pediatricians, based upon fresh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5630/</link>
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		<title>Jan/Feb BayBuzz mag now available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest BayBuzz magazine is now on the street &#8230; and it&#8217;s full of vision! Over three dozen visions for Hawke&#8217;s Bay to be precise, offered by wide range of community leaders. So, to start, here are those visions, with my introduction that looks at their themes &#8230; and some potential conflicts. We gave our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5634/</link>
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		<title>Let’s leave our gang colours at the gate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes visions can grow from something small. A 15 year old boy from Hawke’s Bay wrote the following in his application to attend the new Hawke’s Bay Schools’ Trades Academy in 2012. “Since I was little I’ve wanted to work as a builder &#8211; I love this sort of work and can’t imagine doing anything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5550/</link>
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		<title>Thriving locally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above our bach at Mahanga there is rare and precious remnant of native coastal bush. [Tragically it is dying because stock are allowed to graze it, eating the seedlings that should be replenishing it, but that is another story.] I love to wander under the dense canopy of trees such as Kohekohe, Karaka, Rewarewa, Kaikomako, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Havelock North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s in store for Havelock North in the year ahead? Most sweeping in its implications will be a new ‘Village Framework’ to be formally codified in the Hastings District plan. Once adopted, the Framework will establish the future growth parameters for the urban ‘Village’ part of Havelock North – what kind of activities (retail, light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate punch up for battered families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keith Newman explores the irony of a violent charity event for victims of violence. More than a few eyebrows are raised over a black tie fundraiser for the Napier Women’s Refuge, where local businesses have paid up to $5,000 a table to watch their peers pummelling each other. In between the cocktails, canapés and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5544/</link>
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		<title>Ambitious Plans for Guthrie-Smith Arboretum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For well over a century a unique conservation project has been developing on the western slopes above Lake Tutira, 25 minutes drive north of Napier. On 90 hectares of former farmland the Guthrie-Smith Arboretum is becoming a repository of tree species from all over the world – a world that is facing the threat of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/5542/</link>
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		<title>New age is old age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Sweet explores the realm of personal transformation... its intriguing past in Hawke's Bay and its present alternative practitioners.]]></description>
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