Letters: Have your say in fireworks poll
Hospital admissions, fire call-outs and animal distress are among the issues.
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Letters: Camera could fund roading
Most people learn quite quickly when the back pocket is affected.
Milk in glass bottles delivered to your gate
Home delivery is coming back in some towns, with boutique supplies delivered in glass.
Letters: Bus depot privately owned
The mayor, councillors and staff actively support relocation of the bus depot.
Letters: Bleak bus depot needs a fix
They are huddled in the dark, the only lighting coming from the street light.
Letters: Know your eviction rights
There are many reasons a tenant may not be able to leave a property by the intended date.
Conservation Comment: Heard of the Zero Carbon Act?
"Bill has been watered down to get buy-in, but how can you water down an emergency?"
Letters: Want more taxes, anyone?
More bureaucracy, heaps more rhetoric but much less real council control.
Terry Sarten: Checking the power play list
Competition for the No 10 Downing St address is all on
Have we lost the art of conversation?
I used to think that "grunting" was a modern dialect reserved for moody, hormonal teens
Letters: Pay council staff a living wage
"Our council should be setting a standard and leading the way for other employers."
Letters: Bus users shut out in cold
"Some of our most vulnerable citizens use this bus service. They deserve better."
Alan Taylor: WDC prudent on rates rises
One forms a very different viewpoint on rates when sitting in council chambers.
Mark Ward: Whanganui & Partners supports projects that benefit Castlecliff
I was excited by the community leadership driving the area's changes
Frank Greenall: Merit in pyramid scheme
Underpinning a mammoth workforce was an equally mammoth support industry.
Rachel Stewart: Why Judith Collins deserves a chance to be PM
COMMENT: JuCo is a deeply maligned politician.
Letters: No more empire-building
"This agency continues to waffle along and fails to justify its existence."
Jay Kuten: Psychiatry's big changes
We have an opportunity to build a new system on the embers of the old one.
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.
Conservation Comment: Conserving and upgrading railway system welcome
Budget 2019 allocates $1 billion to the New Zealand rail system over two years.
Kate Stewart: No magic pill for mental health
With our suicide rates twice as high as America's it really is a case of life and death
Can you feel the love tonight? Terry Sarten's lyrical musings on music lyrics
"It's been a hard day's night but you can't always get what you want," muses Terry Sarten.
Nicola Patrick: One step forward, one step backwards
COMMENT: Council's freshwater funding increase surprises, streaming decision disappoints.
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.
Reward artists for economic contribution
Can Whanganui be the best place in New Zealand for an arts career?
Letters: Let's have a simple traffic fix
We need a practical engineer with an iota of common sense to look for simple fixes.