Posts by Mike Graham
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to nzlemming,
+1, especially:
c) faced with an actual elected council that isn’t a puppet for the Nats, have no real idea how to deal with it so automatically say “no” to anything proposed.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
“It kinda needs a StarMart,”
I'm not sure about a StarMart, but when we ventured down to the Wynyard Quarter yesterday, what was definitely lacking was somewhere to buy water or an ice-cream - or did we miss something?
Our overall impression was that it was a great space and will be even better as it gets extended, but the new bridge should have been built twice as wide to cope with the pedestrians.
+1 to Craig's comments above re hospitality staff.
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Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?, in reply to Rich Lock,
Make mine a radl….oh, wait, I can’t say that any more.
With some vint... cheese?
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Radio New Zealand : Taumaranui set to become cycle tourism hub
I guess if Taumaranui can be a cycle hub, Auckland can become an airline hub. How many bicycles can you fit on a B777?
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Hard News: Meanwhile in Epsom ..., in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
I hope that it is a democratic republic!!
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #1, in reply to gavin long,
...Sandra was right to point this out and it was a misrepresentation of her argument to say that she was somehow getting off topic.
Gavin - agreed. To me it seemed that Jordan realised that his example was totally flawed so quickly tried to shut-down the discussion on the point he had raised.
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #1, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
thanks Graeme. I only heard the brief interview, not the debate, so I'm guessing it was in that part.
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I would like someone to ask Jordan Williams (the ONLY spokesman for Vote for Change according to their website) what he thought of the situation in the UK after the last election- i.e. the 3rd placed party almost in a position that NZ First were in in 1995, and even though it was a FPP election in the UK.
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Cracker: RIght On., in reply to BenWilson,
Boscowan looks as if he might be making a play for Tamaki - ads have recently appeared in the East & Bays Courier with his office listed as being in Kohi.
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Couldn't agree more with Sacha's comments above. Community groups rarely have the resources to fight developers, even at the Council hearing stage.
In the end the side with the deepest pockets win most of the time, and from bitter experience the Council Commissioners and Environment Court do not value the input of locals. Developers will pay 'independent' experts to put their side of the story, and that can't be matched in most cases by community groups.