Last Friday Youth Aid officer Constable Dani Hibdige and I visited both Cambridge Middle and Cambridge High Schools to support Pink Shirt Friday. It was great to see so many students getting dressed up. We…
Last Friday Youth Aid officer Constable Dani Hibdige and I visited both Cambridge Middle and Cambridge High Schools to support Pink Shirt Friday. It was great to see so many students getting dressed up. We…
The Government presented its 2023 Budget last Thursday. They labelled it a bread and butter Budget. The opposition said there wasn’t much butter in it. Adjectives used by the media to describe it included minimalist…
I was first elected to Waikato Regional Council in 2013, as the representative for the Thames-Coromandel Constituency. Following a six-year hiatus, I was re-elected in 2022 as one of the two representatives for the Waipā/King…
There are around 50 ongoing eruptions right now, but you won’t hear of most of them because they are not big enough to hit the news cycle. Fortunately, many don’t really impact the people around…
Two large areas on the northern side of Cambridge are being transformed from bare land into large retirement villages. Both will be surrounded on their borders by large housing areas, most of them new. One…
Along with an abundance of cafes, our town is well endowed with antique shops… places where real treasures are often found. My daughter recently made me aware of one treasure that I had tended to…
I’ll start this week with more good news. We had some great reporting by a member of the public around a suspicious vehicle parked up in Norfolk Downs last week. The occupants were seen changing…
After years of being made to feel I was fabricating the pain I was in, at 21 years old I was diagnosed as a “classic case” of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). For me this involves variable…
Last Saturday millions worldwide joined on-line, with London’s masses for the coronation of Charles III and his wife Camilla as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the ‘commonwealth realms’. The incredible detail and…
Most articles that describe the New Zealand tax system regard it as fair and progressive. Until recently, I had accepted that as a ‘fair’ description. Now I am not sure. Inland Revenue recently put out…
