A Political Joke that can be Enjoyed by all Parties by “Democrat” While walking down the street one day, a Member of Parliament is run over by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St Peter at the entrance. “Welcome to heaven,” says St Peter. “But we have a problem. We … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 20 October 2020
Election campaign: The wrapper around the Sunday Times this morning says it all “Time to get moving. Labour’s historic landslide means the hard work has just begun”. …and so say all of us. I’m not sure whether its just me. But the past election campaign hasn’t been about ideas much. It’s … [Read more...]
Last Week Paul Cottam on CCC planning re housing
Last week Paul Cottam gave us an excellent summary of the policy for Community Housing which has been adopted by Christchurch City Council and which is now out for submissions. Here’s the link to the Council paper … [Read more...]
This Week Greater Christchurch 2050
This week we will consider the proposal for Greater Christchurch 2050. Throughout October, the councils would sound out the public through an online survey which can be found at greaterchristchurch.org.nz as well as through a variety of community forums. This week we are one of those forums. … [Read more...]
Medium Density Housing
This article by Brendon Harre was spotted by Axel. What Brendon has written is an “analysis of transport, land-use and housing [that] presents policy options in a positive, evidence-based, and bold manner.” This report takes a systems approach to modelling New Zealand’s housing, transport, and … [Read more...]
CDHB
The more I spend time looking at the CDHB figures, and talk to key people, the more I reckon we have witnessed a massive systemic failure by Government Departments. I have a natural unease about how Government Departments work anyway, but looking deeply into how decisions were made about CDHB, and … [Read more...]
The decision making at CDHB behind the scenes:
It is obvious that the Crown Monitor, and the Chair of CDHB, have been given a task to perform. The OIA referred to is the start of the process is in order that I can prove a hunch about this description of their task. The Crown Monitor and the Chair appear to have complied with whatever their … [Read more...]
Francis Valintine on thinking about the future:
This interview is about what doors would open and what would our lives unfold if we allowed ourselves to follow our curiosity? Frances founded The Mind Lab and Tech Futures Lab and in this interview the focus is on her childhood, the role of her grandparents in her life, memories of photography … [Read more...]
A few topics which we will focus on much now that the election is over:
Community Housing: Access to finance is a major impediment for the amazing groups involved in community housing. There have been two significant moves in the past few months where new ethical funds have moved into community housing. One is ACC has invested in CERO housing in Auckland and they … [Read more...]
A fascinating article on family breakdown over pro and anti-Trump:
Our society is being fragmented. Particularly there are debates close to election time. However, where society has its ugly side on display when it has a President like Trump, things can get pear shaped quite quickly. In this fascinating article … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 78
- 79
- 80
- 81
- 82
- …
- 135
- Next Page »