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![Opinion: Funding proposal could benefit region](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Opinion: Funding proposal could benefit region
Opinion: Controversial iSite project could get a boost if funding proposal wins support.
![Dawn Picken: Ensuring teens put off adult vices](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Dawn Picken: Ensuring teens put off adult vices
We know more than ever how alcohol and tobacco affect young bodies - time to take action.
![Letters: Increase in house valuations criminal](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Letters: Increase in house valuations criminal
Houses far too expensive, a reader says.
![Rachel Stewart: Environment, Facebook, free speech among big issues of 2018](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Rachel Stewart: Environment, Facebook, free speech among big issues of 2018
COMMENT: Rachel Stewart looks back on 2018.
![Poor rules reason for school rugby mess](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Poor rules reason for school rugby mess
NZ Rugby governs our national game, but not necessarily the game at secondary school level
![Bryan Gould: Charity should not be equated with public funding](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Bryan Gould: Charity should not be equated with public funding
There's a bigger picture to charity at Christmas.
![Plastic waste a scourge on our country](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Plastic waste a scourge on our country
Plastic bags and plastic packaging are a blight on the country.
![Letters: NZ and Norway not a good comparison](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Letters: NZ and Norway not a good comparison
Bay of Plenty readers have their say.
![Tommy Wilson: Alcohol is the taniwha in the whare](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Tommy Wilson: Alcohol is the taniwha in the whare
Real need for grateful beds to ease the burden for those addicted to drugs and alcohol.
![Opinion: Are my breasts going to kill me?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Opinion: Are my breasts going to kill me?
Cancer screenings can save lives - and cause anxiety when results are inconclusive.
![Peter Williams: Celebrating success of women's sport](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Peter Williams: Celebrating success of women's sport
Netball is no longer women's main option when it comes to playing sports.
![Letters: Maunganui Rd underpass not needed and too expensive](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Letters: Maunganui Rd underpass not needed and too expensive
Readers have their say.
![Opinion: Tightening belts and trickle-down theory not the right call](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Opinion: Tightening belts and trickle-down theory not the right call
Sometime it's best to spend more, not less.
![Opinion: Time to think of people, not profit](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Opinion: Time to think of people, not profit
Right now the moana, the whenua and the people are anything but healthy.
![Opinion: An effective tsunami alert](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Opinion: An effective tsunami alert
Everyone has a cellphone, making a mobile alerting system effective in an emergency
![Dancing in December](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Dancing in December
If you never stop loving your person, you never stop mourning them, either.
![Truth behind Fiji's shock win](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Truth behind Fiji's shock win
Peter Williams says we should not let the romance of Fiji's rugby win over France fool us.
![Rachel Stewart: TERF wars - a derogatory term to shut down debate](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Rachel Stewart: TERF wars - a derogatory term to shut down debate
COMMENT: All human beings deserve human rights and respect.
![Education plays an important role in democracy](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Education plays an important role in democracy
Education plays an important role in democracy.
![Peter Williams: Workplace tragedies could have been avoided](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Peter Williams: Workplace tragedies could have been avoided
Has the Government really tried its best for the CTV building victims' families?