Could Young be caught offside in sports funding debate?
Sports funding for teams such as the Hurricanes, Lions, Phoenix, Pulse and Saints could shape as a key battleground this campaign. It has become a hot topic and one that […]
Sports funding for teams such as the Hurricanes, Lions, Phoenix, Pulse and Saints could shape as a key battleground this campaign. It has become a hot topic and one that […]
TV3’s Duncan Garner has come out and slammed Mayor, Celia Wade-Brown, saying Wellington needs new leadership. Garner highlights the lack of achievements under Wade-Brown: “Simply put, the capital lacks leadership […]
The Greens have dominated this term with the Mayor settling into her role further, made easier by having a whole caucus of Greens. We’ve had a bit of a look at […]
Things are really starting to get underway with Labour sending a broadcast message out to all and sundry to try and unearth new candidates for the Wellington local body elections […]
The Red Cossacks are gearing up for war in 2016 – desperately trying to move on from their massacre at the last local council elections in 2013 (after suffering more than […]
The 2013 donation and expense returns are filled with all manner of nuggets of information. For example, who knew that northern ward candidate, Peter Gilberd, who came very very close […]
There sure is a wealth of nuggets of information in the campaign donations and expense returns. Check out our previous post for a good overview. There are plenty of rules […]
2013 Wellington City Council campaign expense returns are now online and they make for very interesting (and at times despairing) reading. Mayoral and city council candidates spent $468,991.05 trying to […]
Over the next few weeks we will look back on the campaign and focus on some of the highlights and lowlights. First up I thought I would take an entirely […]
Sometimes it is really good to be a Wellingtonian, huh? While Len Brown’s mess is for Auckland to worry about, and nothing to do with our patch, it would seem […]