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The Premium Debate: cystic fibrosis sufferers still hoping to get drug
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Sonya Bateson: Getting Tauranga people out of their cars? That's a tough sell
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Letters: An idea for how to save millions of dollars in the CBD
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Zizi Sparks: There are no winners in council's legal action against motels
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Zoe Hunter: My car got broken into. The thief was just a kid
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Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Life's too short to let whingers and whiners dump their hatred on you
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Luke Kirkness: More needs to be done to help the real MVPs of society
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Subscriber views: Wage and job listing rises, call for clubs to 'clean up their game'
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Dawn Picken: Is working from home working for us?
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Malachi should never have gone through that hell
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Opinion: Might be time to think twice about that Covid sickie
Opinion: What's the harm in a fake rapid antigen test and a week at home, you ask? Plenty.
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The Premium Debate: should there be greater presence at bus stops?
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Luke Kirkness: Police need to be respected more and the buck stops with us
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