Dumb tunnels and dumb laws
Wayne Brown, engineer and Mayor of Auckland. As mayor of Auckland I am fighting a constant battle with Wellington bureaucrats to enable Aucklanders to actually...
Category : Last Word
CARING ABOUT SOUND SCIENCE – carbon is not carbon dioxide
By Roy Cordato, Senior Economist Emeritus at the John Locke Foundation. Carbon dioxide – A heavy colourless gas, CO2, does not support combustion, dissolves in water to...
You can’t carry a 40 litre bag of potting mix on public transport
By Alan Titchall. I filled out a council transport survey last month. It asked me to pick a recent self-drive journey and, through drop down options,...
Let’s turn Huntly into a WASTE GENERATOR
By Andy Loader, co-chairman, Primary Land Users Group. The Government has spoken about the use of major infrastructure projects as a means of kick-starting our...
Delivering on community needs looking beyond three waters
Matt Fyffe has an extensive background in public sector and construction consultancy services, both here and in the UK. In recent years he has worked...
Senseless race to zero
By Mike Yardley writer and media commentator. As China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam crack on building six hundred more coal-fired power plants, fear not,...
In support of elected representatives
By Dennis Bush-King, group manager, environmental assurance, Tasman District Council. Dennis’ views are a personal reflection and do not necessarily represent the views of Tasman...
Lesson from The Brothers Karamazov
By Brett Crombie, Director, Straightedge Accounting. Russian novels are not generally known for their business lessons, least of all Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels, which tend toward...
A lesson in brevity from Sir Winston Churchill
By Brett Crombie, Director, Straightedge Accounting. A recent book I read covered the appalling period in late 1940 when Hitler’s forces heavily bombed England in...