Wild Beast, 3. February 2021, 10:55
Bring back the days of in-house maintenance. When people knew what they were doing and what needed doing and it was not for profit. Now it’s all ass covering, buck passing, ticket clipping and deferred maintenance. Sure there will be howls of how it wasn’t efficient or you can hold contractors to account now but I’d defy anyone to explain how this is a better system. There also needs to be a review of where the money that was meant for the pipes went and who signed off on it.
Local, 3. February 2021, 10:57
Lindsay a good overview but I take issue. We the ratepayers (not the councillors) will have to decide how to pay for this. I will have to set up a special account … and start saving. I wish I could be insured against Council’s ineptitude.
Marion Leader, 1. January 2021, 9:04
Georgina Campbell in the New Zealand Herald is the only other commentator on the Wellington City Council who serves us nearly as well as Wellington.Scoop.
wendy, 1. January 2021, 10:21
Absolutely agree Lindsay. We don’t need another”creative storyteller” as there are enough of them already in the council. If anything, the council needs a lot less ‘storytelling’ and a great deal more action to solve the enormous problems facing the city.
Traveller, 1. January 2021, 10:25
The Economic Agency has got it right with its images and its list of seaside cafés.
aom, 1. January 2021, 10:43
But they missed the best one – The Beachhouse! Also has fabulous views of the tame, moderate or wild Cook Strait.
by Lindsay Shelton
What a strange year. “Our” Wellington Phoenix moved to Australia and we were all sent invitations via twitter to watch their games in Woollongong. Not that we could actually travel there. There was however no immediate sign that they were planning to become the Woollongong Phoenix.
For almost all of us, domestic flights were the only possibility, if we felt a yen for travel. And we’ve accepted the need to wear masks on planes. But not on buses or trains.
We haven’t adjusted so well to the need for covid scanning. Every time I paused to scan at a shop entrance this week, several people have hurried through the doors without stopping to register.
by Alison Jones (Bridget Williams Books, 2020) $39.99
Reviewed by Lindsay Shelton
I have been recommending this book to everyone. And those who have accepted my recommendation are now recommending it to others. Its story may at first seem to be a modestly low-key one, but it quickly proves to have a powerful impact, with resonances that will be personal for every reader.
As Alison Jones writes: “Most Pākehā people seemed to know nothing about Māori history, and they did not know what they did not even know. In my experience, Pākehā people like my father who denigrated Māori things knew nothing about Māori. On the other hand, I too knew next to nothing about Māori though my ignorance was tempered by curiosity and attraction rather than rejection and fear.”
tonight, proof that our moms really can change the world. good evening. diane is on assignment tonight. and we begin this frizz evening with a developopg story. it has never happened before. but as we come on the air tonight, word america s credit could be on the verge of being downgraded. government officials telling abc news, they expect a downgrade, a move to have major ripple effects across this country. our team is standing by tonight. bianna golodryga on what this meansor your credit card, your job, but first, abc s jake tapper at the white house tonight. and you told me the white house has been fighting this, but they are worried this could be coming? reporter: that s absolutely right, david. two government officials tell abc news that the obama administration is preparing for and expecting a downgrade by the ratings agency standard and poors. it would take the aaa rating of u.s. debt and lower it to aa or aa plus. if this halls, if it happens, s&p would cite the p