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Letters: Cold comfort for bus travellers
Surely coach travellers are worthy of a better facility, not some throwback to the 1940s.
Letters: Council costs needed first
To know what council spending might be stopped, we must first know the costs involved.
Letters: Legal marijuana negatives
Colorado's economy has, however, greatly benefited from the legalising of marijuana.
Letters: Choosing how and when to die not suicide for terminal patients
The terminally ill know they are going to die. It's only a choice of how and when.
Frank Greenall: Budget puts wellbeing first
It's false language used to describe false economics, but most don't see any dichotomy.
Letters: Smoke out disadvantaged
At the end of the day, smoking is a personal choice and should remain so.
Letters: Bridge fit for last century
The bridge may well be safe, but safe and adequate are hugely different things.
Letters: Homeless suffer prejudice
Perhaps it's Palliative Care who need to "take their heads out of the sand".
Letters: Avoiding agonising death
We must change our attitude to death and discuss it openly with family and friends.
Letters: Local fuel prices a puzzle
Government needs to determine whether the big oil companies are in genuine competition.
Letters: Let's have a simple traffic fix
We need a practical engineer with an iota of common sense to look for simple fixes.
Rachel Stewart: Hounds of left are woke and I'm running scared
COMMENT: Govt cronies hate dissent and are eyeing speech laws.
Letters: Switch banks for cheques
It's quite simple; just change banks to get the service you want.
Letters: Bias in job search not new
Thanks to Therese Enriquez for exposing a big problem in Wanganui — sadly, not a new one.
Letters: Legal cannabis threat to smoke-free goal?
It would be illegal to smoke a tobacco cigarette, but you could happily smoke a joint.
Letters: Devlin and The Beatles
Devlin was hired for a gig with the world's hottest band, which has to look good on his CV
Letters: Long leashes are dangerous
People who wear hoodies, with head down texting and ears plugged into music, are a danger.
Letters: Police pursuit 'dangerous'
Why drive very fast with sirens on when there was nowhere for the car being chased to go?
Letters: Suspect pursuits by police
Really, who was the biggest cowboy on our beach with children around?
Letters: Puzzles solution to eye and brain maintenance
Puzzles can help people over 60 maintain good eye health and brain activity.
Letters: Cyclists and shared paths
The walkers are quietly being pushed off the traditional walkways in this town.
Letters: Bus service is essential
Horizons always seem an extra imposition, but at least I can enjoy their buses.
Rachel Stewart: Forget Mars - clean our mess up first
COMMENT: I don't want to go to Mars. I want to get Earth fixed.
Letters: $4m for veterans an insult
Stop giving the likes of Shane Jones $1 billion to waste on hare-brained schemes.
Letters: Put no deadline on justice
Rent offered for confiscated Taranaki lands was termed "moni toto" — blood money.
Letters: Victims need money now
Victim Support drip-feeding the funds adds another layer of hurt for shooting survivors.
Letters: Freedom of speech a myth
Has anyone gone to court to demand that freedom of religion only apply to Christians?
Letters: Time to back Fourth Estate
Our community needs a robust news media to retain a robust democracy.
Letters: A glut of city bottle shops
The police and Medical Officer of Health didn't oppose the application. Where was our MP?
Letters: Division over bill saddens
Our skin colour might be different, but the colour of our blood is the same.
Rachel Stewart: Earth is heating up and activism will too
COMMENT: The environmental movement, like every other movement, is changing dramatically.
Letters: Catastrophe ever closer
Perhaps change will only occur when we are on the precipice of extinction.
Chester Borrows: Caught in a cycle of abuse
There is a direct correlation between some offenders and the abuse they endured.