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The Bismarck Dream Center began as a small food distribution group, dedicated to donating food and proving meal runs for those in need in the Bismarck-Mandan community. However, the community nonprofit has grown significantly since its early years to the point where the organization now has a fully- established, permanent residence in town, which serves to not only provide the Bisman area with food and clothing donations, but also offers a whole host of additional services, including counseling, ministry, and free meals thanks to a partnership with fellow local food bank The Banquet. ....
Opinion: Three cheers for Andrew Little s health reforms 27 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read Health Minister Andrew Little announcing the Government s health reforms at Parliament. Photo / NZME Northern Advocate By: Wayne Brown Three cheers for Andrew Little, a government minister who has actually decided to govern as if they do have a big majority. Let s hope he sparks a flurry of activity from his fellow cabinet ministers in other areas needing bold moves, and there are plenty of candidates, Transport, Housing, Electricity, MBIE and the SOEs to start with. I ve had plenty of experience with health bureaucracies having been parachuted in to fix Northland Health, get Auckland City Hospital up and running and as a commissioner to fix Tairāwhiti DHB in Gisborne, so I ve experienced appointed boards, elected boards and no boards and I can tell you that no boards works best. ....
The only thing lethal enough to kill Coronovirus is bleach and Mike Hosking The Housing speculation crisis can continue, our nothingness on the climate crisis can continue, inequality and child poverty can continue and beneficiaries still getting nothing can continue. For the vast chunk of New Zealand who voted Labour in 2020, those problems can all continue AS LONG AS Jacinda protects us from Covid. This latest outbreak is dangerous for our public health and dangerous for Labour’s popularity. The Northland outbreak is already exposing the dreadful underfunding of Northland Health to have the capacity to deal with what is happening and it highlights that within the MIQ facilities themselves, these new mutations will turn them into infection vectors rather than preventions. ....