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Rachel Stewart: Same-sex and proud - let them eat cake
COMMENT: There will be many more bumps on the road to gay wedded bliss.
Letters: Follow Singapore's lead in dealing with drug crime
New Zealand's drug trade is flourishing, a reader says
Letters: Free speech, hospital care, plastic bags
Plastic bags, freedom of speech and Tauranga Hospital feature in today's letters.
Fresh food should be more easily accessible
There is a huge satisfaction in cooking with fresh ingredients and love for your family.
Letters to the editor: Get over racism
Get over racism, it's not going away, a reader says
Dawn Picken: How Not to Travel
I could write a handbook called, The How Not to Travel Guide.
Will Tauranga be an age-friendly city?
The Minister for Seniors says she will help raise awareness of needs for the elderly.
Letters: Footpaths are for feet, not scooters
If mobility scooters are forced onto footpaths, where will pedestrians go?
Opinion: Embracing the digital age
Extra-curricular options were minimal when I was at school.
Woman thanks strangers who helped injured 91yo friend
Woman delivers thanks to the people who helped her injured elderly friend at Farmers.
Letters: Marina plan, support for nurses and alcohol
Letters: Marina plan, support for nurses and alcohol.
Rosemary McLeod: Chinese innocence leaves much to the vulgar Western mind
What's daring in China is passe in the Western world
Guest view: Why having calves at Ag Days is too risky
We haven't got the cattle disease M. bovis in the Bay of Plenty; let's keep it that way.
Opinion: Let's pretend it's summer
Bay residents are conjuring summer in these cold, dark, post-solstice days.
Letters: Take cars off drink-drivers
Another tool to stop drink drivers, a reader says.
We should not push the homeless into the shadows
As with any growing city, new issues emerge. Leaders are grappling with these challenges.
Rachel Stewart: Time for dry July
COMMENT: The more I drank the more I could handle it. Time to give it a break.
Tommy Wilson: All you need is aroha
Two perfect examples of aroha: Neve Te Aroha and the aroha of the Greerton yarn bombers.
Letters: Encourage cycling to reduce traffic
The more cycles on the road, the fewer cars causing congestion.
Opinion: There is poverty in our country
Paying living wage not generosity, it's a contribution to the health of society.
Letters: Museum would have value to cruise visitors
Readers' share thoughts on a proposed begging ban, library decision and racism apology.
Letters: Tauranga's road network nearing collapse
Cars are an integral part of the transport network - whether councillors like it or not
Opinion: We'd be lost without our 'vollies'
We would be lost without the selfless efforts of volunteers.
Dear Jacinda: Advice from one Kiwi mum to another
COMMENT: It's not easy being a supermum. Just do the best you can.
Letters to the editor: Why the vast difference in petrol prices?
A reader questions why petrol was cheaper in Taumarunui and Rotorua than Tauranga.
Opinion: Action needed to tackle childhood obesity
How can long legislators bury their heads in the sand over childhood obesity?
Opinion: Dental care is a luxury
Dental costs are unaffordable for the average worker, Sonya Bateson says.