COMMENT: Sadly, the game I once loved has mutated into a smorgasbord of unsavoury fare.

COMMENT: As a child of the Central North Island I can't think of a better place to be than the Bay of Plenty.

COMMENT: Funding for schools should be focused on what matters most: education.

COMMENT: The deeper I delve into the issue, however, the more I am struck by just how frightening the consequences of prohibition are.

COMMENT: It's time for senior Chiefs players to step forward, and tell us about the team's attitude to women.

COMMENT: Is it too much to ask that both parents take equal responsibility for their children? Or that their workplaces support them equally?

COMMENT: Tribal authorities have an important role to play in lifting the lives and aspirations of their people.

COMMENT: Without any explanation, a decision was made to withdraw a murder charge that shocked and appalled many.The public has not yet been told why.

COMMENT: This the right time to take some risks to lift performance of places with potential, writes Michael Barnett.

COMMENT: Trade Minister Todd McClay is not an openly combative politician, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

So many great Pixar movies, but which is best? And where will the studio's latest feature, Inside Out, sit? Dominic Corry ranks all of Pixar's movies.

If you ever feel rugby in New Zealand is dying (and the Blues make it seem terminally ill), go and see The Ground We Won, writes Paul Lewis.