Yesterday I visited two friends who are both suffering from dementia. One is mildly affected, and has parts of the conversation where you can see him desperately trying to remember an event being talked about. The other’s eyes are mostly blank, with only the occasional spark of light. It’s sad to … [Read more...]
Last Week – strike4climate
Last week it was inspiring to listen to three young people who are leaders in the school strike campaign. It was sobering for me to realise that the inspiring and eloquent young woman who was one of the speakers was 53 years younger than me… Here’s the video of the speakers at last week’s … [Read more...]
This Week – Tom Logan
This week we are to hear an address from Tom Logan Tom is the product of two quake cities. He was born in Napier. He moved from one quake city to the other for his undergrad studies. Tom achieved a degree in civil engineering and another in math but still had questions that needed answering … [Read more...]
What I expect to hear from Mayoral, Council and Ecan candidates over the next three weeks:
Now that people will be receiving their voting papers it is important that we hear what the candidates standing for office want to achieve if they are elected. It’s time to hear their dreams and what they think they could achieve as a Mayor, or CCC or Ecan Councillor, or Community board … [Read more...]
What $100m of CCC expenditure decrease, and a zero-rates promise, would mean:
Last week I said that I would try to show what zero rates over the next three years would mean. Firstly, a lesson on what makes up rates. A City Council spends money with operating costs and capital expenditure. Operating costs include mowing lawns, running libraries, swimming pools etc. … [Read more...]
It’s not every week I agree with Mike Yardley:
I have put aside a small portion of Tuesday mornings, prior to the Local Body elections, to read Mike Yardley’s current focus the Mayoral election campaign. This paragraph caught my attention last week: There is unquestionably a whiff of Trump-style disruption to Park's campaign platform, with … [Read more...]
The Otakaro Avon River Corridor and the election campaign
Why we have to think hard about this: Evan Smith sent this to me. It’s interviews with election campaign candidates about the river corridor. Here’s the link http://tiny.cc/19elec This City has a lot to thank those, like Evan and Peter Beck, who have focused on this amazing part of our City. … [Read more...]
Housing is our Challenge
The Resource Management Act has had a perverse impact on our planning as a country. Too often it is used by those who have the resources to be able to afford a lawyer to stop genuine initiatives which would improve our society. Often the battle has justification and the Act works just as … [Read more...]
Citizen Juries
I found this article this week really enlightening... https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/09/20/818021/building-bridges-over-troubled-water. Essentially the writers were saying that it is important that we struggle to find new ways of engaging at a deeper level on fundamental topics like water. … [Read more...]
In Conclusion
Not so long ago, within living memory, this was the situation which many families found themselves in, and, unfortunately some still do. A society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members: … [Read more...]
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