Apologies from the cancellation of last weeks speaker from Mike Greer Homes at the last minute. Like most of the readers of Tuesday Club notes I have been soaking up each torturous step of the USA elections. There’s lots of friends in USA who receive the Tuesday Club notes. To you all our best … [Read more...]
Van Jones weeps after Biden’s win: ‘It’s easier to be a parent this morning’
I found this interview on Sunday morning on CNN pretty impressive. Here a black commentator started to cry as he was asked what the election result meant to him. Watch it here This reaction by this commentator is exactly how I felt as Trump went down in a screaming heap. Literally. His … [Read more...]
This week’s speaker- Sam Johnson
We are continuing our theme of following Greater Christchurch 2050 challenges... This week we have Sam Johnson, one of the founders of the Student Army, speaking as a young person on how he feels we need to approach the future as Greater Christchurch. Sam has continued his community activism … [Read more...]
CCC restructure announced this week:
This week Dawn Baxendale announced her long promised restructure of the CCC executive. Next week I will analyse this but one thing worried me during the week. Chris Lynch posted his thoughts on the announcement, as he should. However, the venomous comments under his posting were disgusting. It … [Read more...]
Garry writes 3 November
Last Wednesday Pam and I, and members of our family, joined a good number of Christchurch residents and attended the premier of the latest brilliant film by Gerard Smyth and the Frank Films crew. It’s called “When a City Rises” and I recommend that everybody takes a chance to watch it. We don’t … [Read more...]
Last week’s speaker Rod Cameron
Last week’s speaker, Rod Cameron, gave us a really excellent run through his life and onto the purpose of the proposal which has emerged from SKIRT, a planning tool called ENABLE. This is so relevant to the proposed Greater Christchurch 2050. It is a profoundly simple framework which can be applied … [Read more...]
This week – Mike Greer Homes
This week we have Peter Freeman, from Mike Greer Homes. Peter has had an interesting background having been involved in Community Housing in the UK and who has a really excellent relationship with the Community Housing sector around New Zealand. Note we will be on Zoom - back to Smash Palace … [Read more...]
CCC really messed up the corner of Tuam and High Streets:
If ever we have had an example of engineers getting a corner seriously wrong the corner of High and Tuam really has to win the prize. I have to admit that I have a conflict of interest on this as I am a shareholder of a business affected by this intersection, Smash Palace. We were asked by a … [Read more...]
CDHB 3 November
1. Government Departments mis-managing building programmes: We have written about how the Ministry of Health has completely mismanaged the building of new buildings at CDHB. If you think this is unusual then read this article. It’s about how the Ministry of Education has then same level of … [Read more...]
Really interesting response to my suggesting that Gerry Brownlee go back to teaching
Honest, I was only joking when I suggested that Gerry Brownlee should retire from Parliament and head back to the classroom. I received a number of responses from people who have had enough of our Gerry. My opinion is that Gerry and Nick Smith should both stand down. I know that the first thought … [Read more...]
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