by Cimino | 22 Oct 2007 | Local
She writes refreshingly rationally. Titled Conspiracy as the Opium of the People, columnist Tracey Barnett warns: We’re fostering a world where the truth can be picked out of a hat. Arabs, Jews or Americans themselves felled the Twin Towers, depending on whether you...
by Cimino | 17 Oct 2007 | STV
Trawling through the results of the 2007 local body elections where single transferable voting was used, reveals only discouragingly impenetrable representations of the process involved. Some results were simply listed as Elected and Not Elected. Others provided data...
by Cimino | 14 Oct 2007 | Local
Membership of Mahurangi Action once reached 330. That was on the back of the launch of Jade River : A History of the Mahurangi. Since then it has slipped back to around half that figure, where it has been, more or less, for much of the group’s existence. The...
by Cimino | 13 Oct 2007 | Local
I last stood for council 33 years ago. A candidate for the Hibiscus Coast District Community Council, I came, I was want to say, dangerously close to being elected. Not dangerous in the sense that I was too young, more that I was never comfortable with the adversarial...
by Stephen Todd | 8 Oct 2007 | STV
L e t t e r Stephen Todd, Wellington Goodness me, what a pleasant surprise. I thought I had already disappeared into history, not even making it to footnote status, and then you came along! Thank you so much for plucking me from obscurity and giving me a pat on...
by Cimino | 19 Sep 2007 | Local, Sedimentation
The editor is looking forward to it. A gathering with prospects for more human and meaningful exchanges—after two ‘meet the candidates’ meetings, with several more to come. Purposeful, positive, discussion one-on-one or in small groups in the civilised environment of...
