Foster called for the review following a sustained period of rancour and partisanship among some councillors.
OPINION: Wellington City Council is in a shambles, no denying it. But, short of total institutional failure or widespread evidence of malfeasance and nothing I’ve seen comes close usurping the will of voters by installing a commissioner, or Crown observer as proposed in a The mandate afforded to mayors and councillors at local elections should not be swept aside so easily over community exasperation at the conduct of politicians or, least of all, out of concern about ‘optics’. The latter point – public relations, basically – arises from a fundamental misapprehension over what the organisation is.
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A huge fountain erupted in Aro Valley sending torrents of water down Aro Street, as Wellington s pipe network s woes continue.
EDITORIAL: In their summary of the state of nation in 1875, the authors of the Official Handbook of New Zealand noted that “Wellington only needs proper sanitary arrangements to be one of the healthiest cities in the world.” More than 140 years on, that description still rings true. It seems like barely a week goes by without some kind of major water pipe failure in the capital. In the past few weeks alone, we’ve seen a sewage pipe break that prompted a furious scramble to avoid another huge discharge of human waste into the harbour, a major water pipe rupture in Aro Street, and a sinkhole in the CBD.
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The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series in 2010 with Prime Books. After working as a senior editor for Prime for seven years, Guran parted ways with the company and published the final installment in that series in 2019. Guran returns in 2020 with no time to spare, restarting the series at volume one with new publisher Pyr – a company which, coincidentally, had also seen some major changes: they were sold by Prometheus Books in 2018 and picked up by Start Media. Despite being slightly trimmer than previous volumes,
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One stays true to form, presenting an excellent assortment of work, drawing from best-selling and award-winning authors established outside of dark fantasy and horror, such as Pat Cadigan, Maria Dahvana Headley, Ellen Klages, Ken Liu, Carmen Maria Machado, Joyce Carol Oates, Sarah Pinsker, and Fran Wilde; as well as authors who will excite the horror and dark fantasy fans, such as Mariss