Blogs
04:39pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz MEMO to gun-toting lawbreakers: We expect the police to shoot you. Do not expect them to wait for you to start shooting at us or them first, before they nail you. If you are desperate enough/drug crazed/just... Read More
04:31pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
News HoundsAdy & Flo www.sunlive.co.nz The boss has got a bit annoyed with me a few times this week. Occasionally he's lost the plot and barked a few choice words; colourful language not usually heard around here, except maybe in the Tauranga... Read More
04:24pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
Cr Bill FaulknerFaulkners Corner www.sunlive.co.nz No matter how many times it is said - don't always believe what you read - particularly the internet and especially newspapers, it always needs repeating. Except, of course, everything in The Weekend... Read More
04:21pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
Claire RogersAll about wine www.sunlive.co.nz The wine has been barrel-fermented with fruit sourced from a number of premium blocks, Patutahi, Ormond and Whitmore Estate vineyards in Gisborne. Each of these blocks adds to the character of the final... Read More
04:20pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
Ian McLeanSpokesperson for the Green Party Minister Nick Smith may be gone, but his dream of a streamlined local government (LG) has not. For 'streamlined” here, read 're-focussing on core services”. The analysis justifying this change... Read More
04:18pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
Brian AndersonThe Western Frontwww.sunlive.co.nz Trying to move a Council is a little like trying to beat up a marshmallow. It looks sweet, bends with your every advance but is totally unchanged at the end of the exercise. Councils, to be fair,... Read More
04:17pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
Jane NeesBOP Regional Councillorwww.janenees.co.nz Politicians are elected to make decisions on behalf of the community. However, there are plenty of opportunities for the public to have their say if they feel the politicians have it wrong - particularly... Read More
04:15pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
Te Ururoa FlavellMP for Waiariki www.waiariki.maori.nz The Urewera 4 case file has been well documented so I do not intend to revisit those outcomes. But what is blatantly self-evident is that the events that took place back in October 2007, and... Read More
02:46pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
Write Space Literary news, views and reviews www.taurangawriters.org.nz This Friday, Otumoetai College Year 13 student Céline Murray, 17, will launch her book Seven to Seventeen at the Nautilus Restaurant. Céline is the youngest of... Read More
02:33pm Fri 30 Mar, 2012
Andrew NimickPoint Concept twitter.com/andrewnim This Saturday is the second Bay Of Plenty Mashup competition at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic Bongard campus on Cameron Road. We have 13 teams entered this year, which is a really good number from... Read More
03:24pm Thu 29 Mar, 2012
Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz The retirement of David Tua in the last few days has brought Sideline Sid a real mixture of thoughts and emotions. I first laid eyes on David in 1988 at the (then) Otumoetai Trust Hotel,... Read More
09:43am Thu 29 Mar, 2012
John ArtsAbundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz Today's column begins a series over the next few months which will look at health problems of our major body systems. The first system we look at is the one that looks back to us in the mirror each morning... Read More