Weather Eye with John Maunder In a worldwide media release on February 13, CNN reported that "There's no silver bullet to the climate crisis, but nuclear fusion may be the closest thing to it. In the quest for a near-limitless,... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Yay! Phase Two! Things are moving at last...I know it's strange to welcome an outbreak of disease, but if something is inevitably going to happen and there are restrictions in place until it finishes happening,... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP History was made this week with the passing of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill. I'm so pleased to be on the side of compassion as we ban conversion 'therapy', and I'm delighted... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch A lot of people have been trying to make sense of the protests outside Parliament these past two weeks but there's really no need to reinvent the wheel. Most human behaviour can be explained in... Read More

Democracy HQ A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris In the middle of a pandemic, one organisation has managed not just to survive, but grow. It increased its revenue so much that it has been able to afford a 30 per cent... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP New Zealanders' pay packets are being eaten away more and more each year under this Government. Inflation is nearly six per cent. Petrol is up to $3 per litre in the Bay of Plenty. Fruit... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid has become a keen observer of Singapore horse racing, with a miniscule share in a horse that has lined up on the Kanji track on a number of occasions... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites during the last 124 years. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour,... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch It's 5.30am and I'm peering through windows and checking to see if the door is unlocked. After casing the front of the building and the side, I hit the jackpot at the back - a window is ajar! Like... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party MP simonbridges.co.nz Arguably, the two most important statistics in New Zealand right now are inflation, which is 5.9 per cent; and wage growth, which is 2.6 per cent. This is the highest inflation... Read More

Jan Tinetti Labour MP We live in a great city full of kind and generous people. During my time as a local principal I was always grateful to the people who gave so generously of their time to help the children at my school; from... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Although it wasn't widely reported, certainly not as widely as it should have been, two weeks ago we lost one of the greats from New Zealand's jazz world. Jim Langabeer, who was 80, may not be familiar... Read More