Cycleway Shambles the hot summer BBQ topic
We are back for 2016 and if there was one issue that kept getting brought up around BBQs across the Capital this summer, it was the Mayoral Cycleway Omni-shambles. The […]
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Biggest caucus ever, but it still isn’t easy being Green
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 […]
Living Wage turns into Lavery v Wade-Lester
Roll up, roll up for the latest Wellington City Council circus. The Council has voted on extending its diluted (half-arsed) ‘living wage’ to external contractors. The ‘living wage’ is the Council’s bluntest tool to help […]
Eagle disgraces himself – saves wall, saves Pannett
Great news for Island Bay with confirmation that the sea wall will be rebuilt. As we had mentioned, Councillor Iona Pannett had come under intense community criticism for appearing to […]
Pannett puts career on line over sea wall
In the Wellingtonian last week, Lambton ward councillor, Iona Pannett, said she would resign if the Island Bay sea wall was not rebuilt. Unfortunately she didn’t put a timeline on […]
Debating Lambton
Thursday night was the Lambton council candidates’ meeting and it featured a variety of amusing and some rather horrifying snippets… Labour candidate, Mark Peck, said he’s good at sniffing out […]
Fisking the #Wgtn2013 Candidates – Lambton Ward
The third in our ‘Fisking the Candidates’ series where we take a look at each Ward and its candidates. Feel free to post your own picks and observations in the […]
It isn’t easy being Green
The campaign is well and truly underway with the Aro Valley meeting tonight – but the question is, where is Celia Wade-Brown? Where is her campaign? I spent the weekend […]
Parliamentary Precinct to get a boost?
Alex Fensome at the Dominion Post reports: Wellington’s parliamentary precinct is set to get a makeover fit for a centenary commemoration. A new $1.16 million proposal will turn the Cenotaph into […]
Young and Pannett leading Lambton?
We have had word that there have been at least two polls in the hotly contested Lambton ward, and while the results haven’t been made public, we have been told […]
