WHILST quoting my humble hero, Leonard Cohen, last week, I was unaware he was dying. I'd recently shared a link to his latest album

Jurors' pay Who advocates for the jurors? It's a crime how little a jury member is paid for their time in this country. At $31

YOU can't but think Whanganui is on the cusp of something really big when you stand on the riverside and watch a massive ferry with

Under suspicion For some months Kiwibank has treated me as a robber suspect when I go in to pay a power bill. Until I take my hat

EVEN before Donald Trump hijacked the Republican Party, he was loudly declaring that the science of climate change, like Barack Obama

SOME months back, my racehorse-mad friend Tony -- the one of American/Italian extraction -- expressed grave fears about the possibility

Moonbeams 1.50pm, Monday, November 14. I am watching the TV news, waiting for the boffins to confirm that moonbeams played a role

THESE quakes have got me thinking about our own little patch of the Shaky Isles. As the shake the other night more than illustrated

QUOTING Tony Abbott's "Shit happens!" -- appropriately, this time -- it's been one hell of a US presidential election and a bad time

"IN TURKEY, we are progressively putting behind bars all people who take the liberty of voicing even the slightest criticism of the

Trump and us Chester Borrows (Chronicle, November 11), if you think the reactions of people [to the US election result] are hilarious

ALMOST everyone I spoke to was predicting that Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the United States -- all except my friend

The fine-tuning has probably begun on the Whanganui night market but except for minor tweaks it was a raging success. The Thursday

The politically powered time machine has transported us back to the 1950s. We now find ourselves in some kind of celestial seclusion

IT HAS been an upsetting week. Expectations got turned upside down, uncertainty about the future now abounds and (in the opinion of

SCIENTISTS say the Earth is in the midst of a mass extinction caused by human impacts on biodiversity, including habitat loss, hunting

Sitting down to write your column on the night it looks like the United States elected Trump is not an easy ask. I had an idea brewing

Donald Trump's win made me eat a whole packet of pineapple lumps on Wednesday night. They were destined for slighter bigger things

A DEAR friend passed just a few days ago. Passed on, passed away, passed over, whatever. There are plenty who say such euphemisms

THERE was a moment at the first full meeting of Whanganui's new district council on Tuesday when newcomer Hadleigh Reid sounded like

There was a moment at the first full meeting of Whanganui's new district council on Tuesday when newcomer Hadleigh Reid sounded like

WHEN I come home to Whanganui after a time away, I'm immediately struck again by the simple beauty of the long stretch of land from

Shocking green Regarding the recent painting job in the Bason Reserve. What a terrible, shocking green. It is not the green of nature

NEW ZEALAND is in good shape. We have the fourth fastest economic growth rate in the OECD at 3.6 per cent. We are making great strides

Forget Facebook Caroline Ritchie displays astonishing -- and, unfortunately, increasingly rare -- true wisdom in her editorial of

AS I LIE prostrate on the ground in supplication and torment, I beg anyone with any power at all ... just bloody well elect a US president

TEN years in the Department of Conservation leaves me with many fond memories, especially when I see photos on Facebook of my old

THIS column attempts to set the scene for the visit of the USS Sampson next week - the first visit by an American warship since the

Positive start The first test of our new council occurred over two full days this week. There is concern amongst our community that

WHEN the news came out that the world's most definitive global travel guide, Lonely Planet, has recognised Taranaki as the world's