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July 18, 2010
Artists need art dealers. That is a simple necessity for a healthy art scene. While some artists are brilliant at self-promotion, most are better off concentrating on creating, leaving the selling to a specialist.
A good dealer is much more than a kind of high-class vacuum cleaner salesperson. The best dealers are in the business because [...]
July 6, 2010
The future hangs in the balance for Hawke’s Bay’s largest coastal communities as local authorities, having sidestepped the erosion challenge for decades, decide whether the Cape Coast becomes a demolition zone or the key to putting the heart back into Hawke’s Bay.
A win-win proposal to bring closure to the longstanding problems at Haumoana, Te Awanga [...]
June 29, 2010
While coming as no great surprise, the Government’s announcement that the Napier/Gisborne rail line could be mothballed or closed is a serious threat to the Hawke’s Bay economy and safety on our roads.
Together with three other provincial lines, Napier/Gisborne will be reviewed by KiwiRail in consultation with communities and customers. Its so-called “rail turn-around plan” [...]
June 22, 2010
“I work bloody hard.”
If one measured by work ethic alone, Lawrence Yule would have an insurmountable lead in his bid for re-election as mayor of Hastings.
Lawrence says he devotes 50 hours a week to his job as mayor, excluding time spent on his duties as president of Local Government NZ (we’ll come back to that). [...]
June 21, 2010
Venture Hawke’s Bay is the mandated economic development agency and regional tourism organization for the region and is a business unit of the Regional Council. Venture Hawke’s Bay took over these functions from the former Hawke’s Bay Inc. nearly one year ago on 1 July 2009.
Since then, Venture Hawke’s Bay has produced [...]
May 29, 2010
In Mustn’t Grumble, columnist and writer Joe Bennett’s wonderful romp around Britain, he recalls a gang of motorcyclists “buzzing up the lane like flies” and clustering around his borrowed Audi convertible in their black leathers as if it were rotting meat.
He returns anxiously to the car only to find the motorcycle gang consists of a [...]
May 29, 2010
If I were a budding politician, looking for a range of issues that would attract comment and debate, I would not need to go to far past all things environment. Get the debate right and you could attract wide community support. Get it wrong and you could attract wide condemnation.
Maybe that is why many politicians [...]
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- Alan Dick
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- Anne Tolley
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- Brian Duggan
- Bridget Sutherland
- Brooks Belford
- Chris Tremain
- Claire Hague
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- Craig Foss
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- Elizabeth Sisson
- Ewan McGregor
- Georgina Miller
- Hastings, Napier & Regional Councillors
- HB Wine Country Tourism
- Helen Clark
- Henare O'Keefe
- Iain Maxwell
- Ian Purdon
- Janet Takarangi
- Jeff Harman
- John Newland
- Judith Anderson
- Katherine Edmond
- Kathy Webb
- Keith Newman
- Kent Baddeley
- Kevin Snee
- Kevin Trerise
- Kim Thorp
- Kym Hamilton
- Lawrence Yule
- Liz Remmerswaal
- Local Students
- Louis Chambers
- Margaret Cranwell
- Marie Dunningham
- Mark Cleary
- Mark Story
- Mark Sweet
- Matthew Miller
- Metiria Turei
- Michael Wan
- Mick Lester
- Mike Mohi
- Morry Black
- Murray Douglas
- Neil Kirton
- Neville Smith
- Ngahiwi Tomoana
- Nick Stewart
- Pat Magill
- Paul Paynter
- Peter Holley
- Phyllis Tichinin
- Rachel Cornwall
- Raewyn Peart
- Rick Barker
- Robert Burnside
- Robin Gwynn
- Rod Drury
- Roger Coleman
- Roy Dunningham
- Russel Norman
- Sean Bevin
- Shaun Lines
- Simon Nixon
- Sophie Stewart
- Stuart Nash
- Tim Gilbertson
- Tom Belford
- Wayne Bradshaw
- Philip M Ward on I'm standing for Regional Council
- Michelle Pyke-next Mayor of Napier on Pandaland or Wasteland?
- Mark Sweet on I'm standing for Regional Council
- Philip M Ward on Pandaland or Wasteland?
- Philip M Ward on I'm standing for Regional Council
- Philip M Ward on Pandaland or Wasteland?
- Michelle Pyke-next Mayor of Napier on Pandaland or Wasteland?
- Jo Eames on Pandaland or Wasteland?
- Pat Magil on I'm standing for Regional Council
- Michelle Pyke-next Mayor of Napier on Pandaland or Wasteland?
- Pandaland or Wasteland?
- Greater role for Maori in regional resource policy
- I’m standing for Regional Council
- Man About Town
- Fresh start for Cranford?
- Regional Council capitulates … sort of
- National listens to its fly fishermen
- Lessons from Farmers Weekly
- Secrecy won’t rescue hearings committee
- Rainy day pleasure
