by Cimino | 28 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Regional governance, Regional parks
Dr Ronald Locker had suggested it as a national park. It was 1973 when he suggested the creation of a national park to protect his beloved Mahurangi Harbour, in Seacoast in the Seventies, which he co-authored with Professor John Morton and David Thom cbe. What Locker,...
by Cimino | 24 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Election turnout, Local, Local board, STV, Youth voting
Warkworth from 4000 to 20 000 by 2040. That would be a five-fold increase in less than half the 50 years it took the region to treble to today’s population, of about 1.5 million. With this planned growth-rate of more than three times the regional average, Warkworth is...
by Cimino | 20 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Local, Local board
Penny Webster is good. She’s been a keen advocate for old people who don’t like apartments leaving the centre of Auckland, which is one of the key values of our War effort. Besides that, she’s handled a key finance role for the last three years [and the three years...
by Cimino | 18 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Local, Local board, Youth voting
Tessa Berger’s bonanza of national media coverage began locally, with the Rodney Times sending out its reporter Jay Boreham to interview Tessa in respect to her eye-catching billboards, one of which by then had been removed. Given evidence of its reasonably careful...
by Cimino | 15 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Concurrent elections, Election turnout, Local board, Youth voting
Polling gets blamed for a lot of things. For starters, for influencing folk into voting for the winning side. Or, conversely, for influencing folk into voting for the underdog. Whereas, in an ideal world, voters would express their honestly held preference, regardless...
by Cimino | 10 Sep 2016 | Election turnout, Local board, Youth voting
After three decades of Kids Voting, there is ample evidence to back it up. And for half that time, after it was imported from the United States by the then Auckland City Council, kids in Aotearoa have been at it. This year, a record 11 730 students in the Auckland...
