Occasionally I decide to use these opinion pieces to give the local district council a nudge or a serve regarding their tired – and sometimes tiring – efforts to balance democracy with physical reality. Aka,…
Occasionally I decide to use these opinion pieces to give the local district council a nudge or a serve regarding their tired – and sometimes tiring – efforts to balance democracy with physical reality. Aka,…
The phrase to “finish well” no doubt means different things to different people. Our values and the criteria we use to determine what ‘success’ is, will shape whether we think we’re on a trajectory to…
Reporting crime at the time it happens is something I mention regularly in this column and when speaking in our community. I place importance on it as when we have crime spikes such as overnight…
Thinking about time as someone who studies the Earth can get a bit weird. Volcanic activity spans hundreds of thousands, and even millions of years. We consider a volcano that has erupted within the past…
Following the recent decision by the board of Waikato’s economic development agency Te Waka to wind up its operations, the Waikato Regional Council (WRC) has been giving consideration to what role it can play as…
I’m writing this week’s column against a backdrop of feeling troubled as I’ve wrestled over issues that plague today’s world. We live in seriously tempestuous times. It’s challenging attempting constructive comment on the plethora of…
This article differs from the print version and includes the Reserve Bank announcement yesterday cutting the official cash rate by 0.25 points to 5.25%. On August 5 the Japanese stock market had its biggest daily…
‘The Captain of all these men of death’ – the dreaded tuberculosis – every so often visited the Te Awamutu district. The unflagging efforts of Isabel Pope in February 1911 could not save her husband…
As Cambridge Community Liaison officer, one of my roles is to be the police liaison officer for our Cambridge Community Patrol (CBCP), part of the national community patrol network. Every week, CBCP puts out a…
Sitting back in Te Awamutu, working through jet lag on the other side of my trip to the Canary Islands, I am thinking about the incredible people I met over the past six weeks. I…
