Deal sees Council wrest control of Hammerhead
The future of the Hammerhead as a public space and key transport link looks bright thanks to a deal done recently by Council.
Local councillors, from left, John Watson and Wayne Walker, say it is a satisfying end to a 20-year battle.
A deal between Auckland Council and Gulf Harbour Investments (GHIL) has removed the threat of a commercial ‘right to lease’ over the Hammerhead land at the end of Gulf Harbour marina, enabling greater investment in the public recreation and transport hub.
The ‘right to lease’, held by GHIL but never actually taken up, has been an ongoing sore point for decades. Since Rodney District Council days, there has been strong opposition to losing public control over the land, and stories in this newspaper to alert residents to proposals discussed under a cloak of confidentiality.
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Brandon Bernard was declared dead by lethal injection last night at 9:27 PM, EST.
Brandon Bernard
Bernard was one of the five black 212 Piru Bloods gang members who, in 1999, murdered Todd and Stacie Bagley in Killeen, Texas. On their way home from church, the Bagleys stopped to use a payphone. Christopher Vialva, one of the gang members, asked Mr. Bagley to give him and his two friends, Christopher Lewis and Tony Sparks, a ride. The Bagleys kindly agreed. Vialva then drew a gun on them, forced them into the trunk, and “drove for several hours, stopping at A.T.M.s to withdraw money from the couple’s bank account and trying to pawn Ms. Bagley’s wedding ring.”
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I have no obvious opposition to capital punishment as a matter of principle, although in practice, the costs of exacting the death penalty from initial trials and appeals to the execution itself vastly supersede that of lifelong prison sentences. Furthermore, the number of costly death penalties pursued are orders of magnitude greater than those executed.