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Our opinion – Built on a promise

When Mariner Rise in Link Crescent on Whangaparāoa Peninsula got resource consent for a 60-home subdivision back in 2016, I told the developer I was...

Our Opinion – Claytons open workshops

Readers with long enough memories may recall Claytons. It was one of the first ‘non-alcoholic alcohol’ drinks in NZ, packaged to look like whisky. The...

Our Opinion – More submissions, less venting

Readers may have noticed a fair number of stories about new developments on the Coast in recent issues, including in this one. The paper has...

Our Opinion – Jeanette Fitzsimons and me

Jeanette Fitzsimons, who died this month, didn’t know me. But I certainly knew her. She was my lecturer for the Environmental Science paper I did...

Our Opinion – Universal Message

The response to the annual Hibiscus Matters Christmas appeal for food and vouchers for Coast families, who might be doing it tough this Christmas, has...

Our Opinion – Candidates campaign on open workshops

For this paper, it is significant that the issue of public access to the local board’s closed and confidential workshops has become an election platform...

Our Opinion – Community newspapers

The news that $1 million of taxpayers’ money is to fund journalists working for private and public media businesses has been greeted with anger by...

Gardening – Ready for a cool change

Not everyone enjoys autumn, particularly the damp squib that we have in Auckland compared with the fireworks provided by deciduous trees in colder parts. For...

Job interviews underway

Every three years a bunch of people dust off their CVs and ask ratepayers for a job – it’s local body election time. Recent Meet...

Gardening – Bee friendly

I recently discovered that my 15-year-old daughter has developed a strong dislike of bees. Something about the way she ran, squealing from a manuka, covered...